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Can you pair a magic track pad with an iPad ?

can you pair an iPad with a track pad?

You can't use a trackpad or a mouse with an iOS device. There is no "pointer" that you can move around the screen. The entire screen is your "trackpad."

You can't use a trackpad or a mouse with an iOS device. There is no "pointer" that you can move around the screen. The entire screen is your "trackpad."

No iDevice can use an external mouse or trackpad device, natively.

There is no pointing cursor to move on screen.

That stated, since iOS 9, you can move around the text "I" beam insertion point cursor by bringing up the iPad's software keyboard, do a two finger single tap to turn the entire keyboard area gray colored and into a gigantic trackpad area where you can easily control the position of the text insertion point "I" beam cursor.

You can highlight text and lines of text by doing a two finger double tap on the iOS software keyboard.

Then,  do a single two finger tap on the keyboard area to fine tune the text selection.

That is as close to a mouse or regular trackpad that iOS is, currently, going to get.

Good Luck!

What do you hope to gain by doing that seeing as how there is no cursor on the iPad to be controlled with the Magic Trackpad?

Assuming a pointer/cursor, this would benefit anyone using their iPad on stand as a temporary desktop. Without this feature, using a keyboard on an iPad is as awkward as using Windows 10 with a touchscreen. Whenever I use a wireless keyboard, everytime I have to reach up to the screen I first reflexively reach for my trackpad. Micro-movements are always faster than macro-movements, and when that's your natural reflex anything else is unnecessarily awkward.

Apple didn't do touchscreens on laptops because it's bad ergonomics. This logic applies when using a keyboard with an iPad too.

Segmill wrote:

 

when that's your natural reflex anything else is unnecessarily awkward.

It's not a natural reflex. It's a trained one. No one is born with a natural inclination to use a computer mouse. So, if you use your iPad with a keypad and touchscreen for long enough, it will feel much more "natural". That process is going to be slowed down by the fact that you're moving between two different modalities. But, it's quite doable.

Meanwhile, submit your feedback to Apple here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback

If you feel that the mouse is more nature then you should not consider the iPad as your solution where it has been designed to do everything by touch. Instead you should consider the MacBook which is design to use that mouse.

For me the main benefit is using my iPad to remote control a Windows or Mac desktop. I know remote control clients have workarounds but constantly reaching up to the screen is clunky.

Then get a laptop instead.

"Then get a laptop instead." /parrot sarcasm

You'd do best burying your technology up your assistive class, troll.

I, like many, believe this technology SHOULD be utilised for people ESPECIALLY like me. I RDP across many technology types, even OSX, but iOS can be irksome indeed with the lack of a mouse.

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