Finally there is full Mouse and trackpad support in iPadOS 13.4, so let me show
you how it all works!
Hey there welcome to the video I'm Mark Brown from EditorsKeys and if you
normally watch the channel you'll probably notice this isn't the usual
set that we have. We're actually working from my kitchen table as we are
now in full lockdown here in the UK, so apologies about the terrible lighting
the terrible backdrops and sets there isn't any but I thought it's just a good
idea to get some more content out while we're on lockdown so in this video we're
talking about the new Mouse and trackpad support in iPadOS 13.4.
So if you saw my previous video which you can watch by clicking up here we did a full review of
the Logitech pebble mouse where I said it was probably one of the best low
budget mice you could get for the iPad pro but now Apple has added in full
Mouse and trackpad support, so does that really stand true and how do you
actually get this Mouse and trackpad support working on your iPad pro? I'll
jump into it I'll show you how it works and I'll give you my thoughts as we jump
through it.
okay so the first thing you're going to want to do is pair your mouse
and now they've made it much more simple so on any bluetooth mouse just
essentially go into your pairing mode and you can do it on this Mouse by
holding down the pair button you'll see it flashes really fast and then what we
want to do is go to settings and then we want to go to bluetooth before we had to
go to accessibility and then find some hidden menus you no longer have to do
that and you can go straight to here you can see the Logitech pebble is here so
we can just tap that and then we'll get a notification asking if we would like
to pair so we're gonna click pair and essentially we're connected it's all
done and you can see as soon as we kind of let go of this and start using the
mouse we've got a little pointer now now before it was a much bigger circle it
was a bit too big if I'm honest so it's nice to see they've changed this and
they made a circle because apparently that makes it a little bit more like the
touch you would have from a finger and this is of course a touch device now you
can actually go here and click I if you want to remove the device at any point
so we'll come over here and we'll go to the mouse settings now you actually get
to this by going to and then coming down to trackpad and
mouse support here and then you can see you can actually change the tracking
speed and we can make this very very slow I have it around a half way I like
it to be nice nice and quick by default it has natural scrolling on I
prefer natural scrolling off and then you can change the secondary mouse click
to the left or the right and that's kind of it for this mouse I think other mice
may have more options in the menu but that's essentially it and that's really
all you need to have as a mouse so that's really really good
so how does the mouse actually work in practice well of course we've got a
scroll wheel on here so if we scroll up and down you can see that works fine now
if we go to something like Safari you can see here just close that the
scrolling works nice it's nice and smooth you can click on any buttons here
let's go on video editing that's going to premier keyboard you can see you can
just click through a website and it works nice let's move really nice and
easy just as you would expect a mouse to work you Apple the scrolling options you
had before it was generally pretty smooth now what I've found is that the
mouse acts a little differently depending on where you are and I quite
like this touch you'll notice here if we go down to the dock the cursor actually
disappears and it highlights the thing it thinks you're going to touch which is
a real nice feature if you go up to the top right here you can see that
animation there as it switches and that just makes it much easier to change
these elements within the iPad now if we take a look at text again let's go back
to the site and if we scroll down to the text here you'll notice the little
cursor icon will change from a circle to actually a kind of like a text-based
editor so you can actually select the text it makes it a lot easier actually
and it's a bit more obvious what you need to do and then also of course
you've got right click so you can then copy you can look up you can share that
if you're typing out text you of course get the options to bold italic and the
kind of things you would expect form a Mac but where I found this is a bit
janky is if you go into programs like Google Docs and let's open that
I've got some notes here that I was working on the other day and I've
noticed the cursive doesn't change so I thought okay or maybe this is Google
maybe they haven't changed this I mean you can still do it the old way you can
double tap it but double tap a bit of text and you can drag this out manually
but it is a bit tricky with a mouse and then I thought well maybe it just needs
updating so let's open up pages and all these apps are fully up to date and you
can see the pages have the same issue the cursor does not change to a text
base one so when you go to highlight text you end up just not being able to
do anything so you have to do it the old way at the moment so I would like to see
Apple really update this across the board because at the moment but I first
started using this I thought great this is perfect I could potentially use this
as a replacement from a MacBook Pro when a month ago but because of these little
inconsistencies is still very tricky to know where the mouse might work where it
might not work and that makes it very tricky the other thing I found is that
with this mouse even though I gave this a good review in a past video now Apple
have added the ability to do multi-touch gestures so on a Magic Mouse you can use
three fingers to swipe to the right this Mouse doesn't have that only has left
click right click and the scroll wheel so you don't have the option to actually
scroll across to your next set of apps of course when you're using an iPad
you're always going to be very very close to the screen and this is a very
low cost Mouse at 19 pounds so could you live with that I certainly could but I
know for some people this will bug them a little bit more
it also means winging it inside an app to go home you can't do the three finger
swipe up and you either have to use your finger like you normally would or you
click down here drag up and do it that way a little bit like using your finger
so it is a little bit janky if you are not using a multi-touch Mouse but to be
honest I really love it I think this is a much better way of doing things I like
how they've done this and what you notice as well when we go through
different menus if we now go through to mail you'll notice how they've changed
some of the animations of the cursors on the top right as well so if we go up to
the top of this email here you'll see as we scroll
around the top here boom that cursor changes to the box and that just makes
selection of these areas a lot easier than ever before we go down to the
bottom here you'll see their changes so quickly and easily press that reply
button and I really like that at first you think when you look at a video this
is gonna take a little while to get used to but actually it's pretty good and I
think Apple have done a fantastic job there so there we go that's a look at
the new iPad mouse and trackpad support but let me know in the comment section
below what do you think of this will you be adding this to your iPad pro and
maybe getting a new Mouse for it you know I actually think it's pretty good
there's been many scenarios where I'd like to use the iPad pro on the go and I
think I've said in many videos before it's great for kind of like browsing a
bit of creation work but when I need to do boring things like accounts I've
always found that I really do need that amount support so I really do like to
see it added here because it was one of those things if you don't want to use it
you don't have to you can turn it off and the iPad OS really stays kind of the
same so I mean that's my overview of it as I say leave a comment below let me
know what you think of it and I'll see you in the next video.