{"id":5073,"date":"2019-04-25T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/digital-world\/mouse-support-for-the-ipad-apparently-in-development-mac-i\/04-2019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:52:17","slug":"mouse-support-for-the-ipad-apparently-in-development-mac-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/technology\/mouse-support-for-the-ipad-apparently-in-development-mac-i\/04-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Support for the iPad Apparently in Development | Mac &#038; i"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it may be happening after all: \u201cMouse support for the iPad apparently in development,\u201d reports Mac &amp; i; see <a href=\"https:\/\/heise.de\/mac-and-i\/meldung\/Mausunterstuetzung-fuers-iPad-in-Planung-4405839.html\">heise.de\/mac-and-i\/meldung\/Mausunterstuetzung-fuers-iPad-in-Planung-4405839.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Especially with the new iPad Pro and its support for external displays via USB-C, I think Apple needs to support pointing devices in iOS.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be brilliant if the iPad could be used as a touchpad while connected to a monitor. The touchscreen could additionally display a keyboard, or you could connect one via Bluetooth.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without a pointing device, an external monitor on the iPad unfortunately makes only limited sense. Even so, I suspect there may not be much truth to this rumour and that iOS 13 will not really change anything in this respect.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it may be happening after all: \u201cMouse support for the iPad apparently in development,\u201d reports Mac &amp; i; see heise.de\/mac-and-i\/meldung\/Mausunterstuetzung-fuers-iPad-in-Planung-4405839.html Especially with the new iPad Pro and its support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":null,"_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,287],"tags":[322,327,374,337,377,323,318,335,376,290,375],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imho","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-comment","tag-computer","tag-heise","tag-imho","tag-ipad","tag-link-tip","tag-rumour-mill","tag-tablet","tag-technology","tag-touchscreen","bwp-blog-post","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-1","bwp-post-has-title"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pexels-vojtech-okenka-392018-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}