With the launch of iPadOS 13.4 comes the possibility of connecting a mouse and a trackpad to your iPad, which is a great step for those who still saw the possibility of changing their computer for an Apple tablet. But this compatibility goes even further and allows us to configure different mouse buttons and even use the classic active corners of macOS.
If you have a trackpad and connect it to your iPad, you can use the left and right click and scroll, and you will also have a good handful of gestures that will make the task much easier when opening slide over, closing an application, changing between apps or open multitasking. With the mouse everything is not so well optimized, because its two buttons do not give much more of themselves. But There are many models on the market that include multiple buttons and that we teach you to configure on your iPad using one of the best mice on the market, the Logitech MX Master 3.
iPadOS lets you modify aspects such as the size and color of the pointer, or even increase its contrast to better visualize it. It also allows you to add a border to it with the color you configure, and to modify the size of that border for those who have vision problems. Modifying the scrolling speed or which is the button with secondary click for lefties are other basic options that we find among the system settings.
But also, if we access the Accessibility menu, we can configure all the buttons that our iPad recognizes from our mouse, in my case up to five buttons. May l configure a button to go to the desktop, another to open multitasking, a different one to take a screenshot, etc. Even if you miss the active corners of macOS, you can configure the corners of your iPad so that actions are carried out when you place the cursor on them. We will explain all of this in this video that will surely help you configure your mouse to get the most out of it.
