He was a secret shouting but we did not see until minutes before the keynote last Monday. Apple was going to do something it should have done a long time ago: give more power to the iPad. The way they have done it is clever, dividing iOS into two lines: iPad and iPhone, however, they do not differentiate the iPhone operating system under a different name, save for iOS.
One of the most interesting features not discussed at the iPadOS presentation was the possibility of connecting a mouse to our iPad to handle the interface with the. Though not a main option, we can access the accessibility settings and populate the tool. We can confirm it: we can operate an iPad with a mouse.
A USB or Bluetooth mouse to operate the iPad with iPadOS
IPads were born as a device with a large touch screen. That touch screen just got bigger and bigger. We can see the evolution from the 1st generation to the current iPad Pro. However, the use that has been given to this device has varied. Although entertainment is still one of the most important assets, productivity and work has gained space. That means that a large part of its users require other tools to work with on the device itself.
Go@tldtodayLuma Fusion on the iPad Pro w / iPad OS 13 is nice with a mouse, been playing around with it for the past hour… pic.twitter.com/HUNILCMrq0
- Zane Kleinberg (@ zane5687) June 4th, 2019
Apple introduced iPadOS on Monday last Monday and introduced USB or Bluetooth mouse compatibility with iPads. This function is introduced within the accessibility functions that they call Assistive Touch, a toolkit for people with dysfunction of some kind. This means that Apple still does not see that operating an iPad with a mouse is necessary, otherwise they would have included it as a function star and they would have gloated over her.
However, it is clear that anyone who wants to can access this function and operate their iPad with iPadOS with a mouse. As we can see in the videos that circulate on the network of the developers who have the beta on their devices it works really well. We see a dark circle indicating where the cursor is located and we can navigate as we do on a computer between the interface of our iPad.