I need to use a mouse with my ipad pro. What gives?

Have you worked on editing word documents for over 5 hours? Work on writing a book on a word document for more than 5 hours and see if you pick up what we are saying.

"it happened" It hasn't happened until it's officially released. Then you can say it happened.

Good. That works for your workflow. We all have different workflows and as such different reasons for using our devices.

Not bad.

Actually pretty fantastic!

Whoops! It’d be helpful if I included the link! https://youtu.be/bUBogsKuBgA

If this is final implementation, it actually goes way beyond my expectations and that is something that is much needed for my particular workflow.

netman09 wrote:

I know this has been a question before. Has Apple pulled their head out yet and made it possible to pair a mouse with this thing. I have things to do and little time for what the world will be like in the future. Right now I need a mouse to work with my ipad pro. Or send me some kind of futuristic device that allows me to place my cursor where I want it without having to reach out and touch the **** display everytime i want move something or cut and paste or select an object, etc. The pen has it's moments but touch screens are for drawing not for a replacement to the mouse. I would like a pair of glasses that know exactly what my eyes are looking at within a micron and then when I blink that would place the cursor then I could say "select next word" and it would just do that. You know or,.... maybe for now a mouse....

I don‘t quite understand the tone of your post. iOS was designed from the ground up to be a touch-only interface. A mouse was never part of the equation and remains clearly not part of the equation. Apple “pulled its head out” back in the early 2000’s when it began designing iOS and the first iOS devices and said - no mouse, touch only.

No iPad has ever supported a mouse, and there is no indication that any iOS device ever will. If you’ve been waiting for that to happen, I suspect you’re in for an endless wait.

I have been using iPads as a cheaper laptop replacement since the iPad was introduced 2010.

Unlike many "old school” computer users, I learned how to use the device and the device paradigm that I purchased.

I learned to use my iPads as they were designed to be used.

I learned to be fast and proficient using the software/onscreen keyboard.

I have never needed the use of an external trackpad or mouse when using my iPads.

I learned to use the tools I purchased and to make the best of these modern day electronic tools.

iOS and iDevice are touch ONLY devices.

What's the point to having a truly lightweight and portable mobile tablet device if you have to schlep around bulky heavy keyboard cases or a seperate Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad/mouse with you all of the time wherever you take your iPad?

I am surprised that Apple, in 2015, finally decided to add native stylus support to iPads with the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil after 5-8 years!

Everyone remember when Steve Jobs kept stating how adding a stylus to a mobile device meant the device would already be an epic fail before launch?

Yet, iPads now have native stylus support with the Apple Pencil.

Actually, third party stylus makers were already supporting iDevices with stylii of all types, including smart, Bluetooth ones.

It's going to be a much longer wait for Apple to offer REAL wireless Bluetooth support for wireless mice and trackpads, though.

I think we’ll see improvements to the iOS software trackpad functionality, first, before Apple will, if ever, offer support for any conventional wireless pointing devices.

It's the way it is.

If you feel the iPad doesn't meet your needs, sell it and purchase/get a mobile device/tablet that does!

Not everyone likes or can adapt to the iOS/iDevice paradigm.

Find and purchase the mobile device that works best for your needs.

It maybe the iPad isn’t for you!

GrinNBarrett wrote:

Haven't you heard? Apple knows best!

Your post has been selected as helpful---for all the good it will do. I doubt Apple ever reads these anyways.

No Apple does not know best. But Apple is free to offer or not offer whatever features it wants on their devices.

They do not have to ever offer a feature you or I want. And if they don't we are also free to choose a device that does offer the feature we want. There's nothing saying we need to stay with a particular brand if it does not do what we need it to do.

I could argue, that running Windows apps on my iPad would be good. I need to be able to run some Windows apps because there are no iOS versions for them. Does Apple immediately need to drop everything and make the iPad do that? Probably not.

It is clear the needs for a mouse have not yet been sufficient to make Apple want to offer it. If they see a decline in their sales because they don't offer it, they may indeed change their mind. As it is, they have very little incentive to do so, if people continue to buy their products despite not having mouse support.

Posting here, is not going to make Apple change their minds. Use the feedback link to tell them, and stop buying their products if they don't do what you want. And buy ones that do support the feature you want.

As already mentioned, numerous times, using a mouse with Windows Remote Desktop sessions to Windows boxes (virtual or otherwise) is already available to you with an iOS app like Jump Remote Desktop and specific hardware mice.

And and that is not what this thread is about anyway.

I am currently reading and replying to this posting on my ipad pro, and using a mouse!! How? It's a bit of a cheat/compromise. By running the app, Duet on my iPad, it acts as a second display for my macbook pro, and shows another Finder screen, within which, the mouse will operate the cursor as if it were a Mac. Probably not the device setup being sought, but useful all the same.

As has been mentioned numerous times already here, there is long standing support for driving a mouse on several forms of Remote Desktop sessions - VPN, MS RDC, etc.

But there has never been, and is not, any support whatsoever for a mouse in native iOS on any iOS device Itself. Which is what this thread is about.

With duet you are using Mac OS apps on your Mac - you are not running iOS apps on the iPad itself.

The only way that I’ve ever known to do it was with the DoBox hub device and their app, which is not available in the App Store (never was) and thus effectively involves hacking iOS to install an anonymous app from a web site. So neither native iOS nor Apple have ever supported the use of a mouse in iOS, by any means.

No.

Back during the early days of iOS 3 and 4 on the 2010 iPad, I could use the USB to 30 pin dock adapter and plug in a USB Apple mouse and it would work and control the “I-beam” insertion cursor with the mouse.

This, also, worked with some of my third party notes apps, as well, but not all.

Apple killed/coded out/closed out using an external mouse of any type when they introduced iOS 5 and my Apple mouse stopped working with the USB to 30 pin dock connector.

There was no hack or use of a special app.

It just worked.

The same way I was able to use the same USB to 30 pin dock connector to plug in my Mac’s aluminum USB keyboard into my iPad instead of using a wireless Bluetooth keyboard to use my Mac keyboard with my 2010 iPad.

My Mac USB aluminum keyboard stopped working with my 2010 iPad after iOS 5 was introduced.

Apple promptly killed this wired input device connectivity with iOS 5.

None of this wired connectivity ever worked after iOS 5. Not on my 2010 iPad and NOT even on my later iPad 2 or 3 models.

To each their own. I despise and loathe trackpads. Terribly inefficient and hard to use. Cause RSI. Should never have been invented. Mouse much better. That said, I do not need mouse support for my iPad Pro because I never use it as a laptop substitute. Quite content with combination of fingers, virtual keyboard, Apple Pencil 2 and voice recognition for what I do with it.