Apple launched major versions of its operating system last night. Along with splitting up the OS that powers its iPhones and iPads, the company also introduced a number of major new features for both iPhones and iPads.
And one of the new major features is support for mouse. Even though, Apple introduced a bunch of new gestures on the new iPadOS that makes it much easier to work on iPads with touch, support for the mouse has been long awaited and should be a welcome addition for many:
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And even though iPadOS is now supposed to be a different OS than iOS, the mouse support still works on iOS 13. As long-time Apple enthusiast Steve Troughton-Smith tweeted, mouse support works on the iPhone and iPod Touch as well. The only limitation here is that the mouse support doesn’t work on external displays, and the cursor simply doesn’t show up on external displays when your device is connected to one. It does, however, work with both wired and wireless mouses.
iPads getting mouse support is especially important because so many people use iPads as their main computer. And even though it’s a huge addition to the iPad, Apple didn’t make any mention of the new mouse support at WWDC, which is a little odd. I guess the company really wanted people to focus on the touch features and all the crazy new gestures it’s adding with iPadOS 13.
dontbe evil
<p>OMG that's revolutionary !!!</p>
Hifihedgehog
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Apple is evil. You should be able to easily procure and use a third party app over a first party one and you should also be able to make that third party one the default for a given protocol or file type in the operating system's settings. What Apple has been squeaking by with iOS for now a decade plus would have been straightway penalized if Microsoft had done it with Windows. The fact that you still cannot select a default web browser or mail client in iOS flies in the face of decades of judicial precedent which have been served to Microsoft and others. I, for one, hope that immediate action is taken against Apple's draconian, despotic policies.</span></p>
dontbe evil
<p><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"You can converge a </span><strong style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">toaster</strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and a </span><strong style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">refrigerator</strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user," Apple CEO Tim </span><strong style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Cook</strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#433054">In reply to dontbe_evil:</a></em></blockquote><p>I see truth hurts… right butthurt apple fans?</p>
nfeed2000t
<p>A multi-window iOS device with mouse control is what millions of regular people need. Imagine giving an iOS based laptop to your non-technogeek family member and never having to worry about crypto-jacking and other viruses. Imagine the employees of the City of Baltimore using iOS based computers and not getting crypto-jacked. It has been 12 years and no one has had their iPhone/iPad compromised (other than jailbreakers). It is iOS' security model that is even more important than touch.</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Apple sure drags its feet on this. Now we have mouse control. How long will it be before we will have multi-window support and other form factors than an iPad?</span></p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#433170">In reply to nfeed2000t:</a></em></blockquote><p>Is iOS a lot more secure than MacOS? Of course, a more secure OS has no value if it can't run the programs you want to run.</p>