How To Install And Use A Mouse On Your New iPad
We all know that the iPad was designed by the guys at Apple with the needs of a typist in mind and how could you start writing your works without a keyboard and mouse? If you already have keyboard?coupled with your iPad, the next logical step would be a mouse. In this tutorial we will teach you how to install and use a mouse on your iPad. Before we start with the tutorial you must know that you must jailbreak you iPad first. There are many tools out there that can help you jailbreak your iPad, depending on your iOS. A complete step by step guide can be found here.
The way in which you will be able to use a mouse with your iPad is by installing a jailbreak tweak that has been recently released to help you with that. Although many of you may consider that connecting a mouse to a touchscreen device is pointless, when it comes to writers that also use Bluetooth keyboards, it can be avery handy tweak. For instance, I use Pages to edit documents on my iPad and I get very annoyed when I have to move my hands from the keyboard to touch the screen to change format settings. Using a mouse makes things much more comfortable.
How To Install And Use A Mouse On Your Ipad
The tweak that I am talking about is called BTC Mouse & TrackPad and it is capable of recognizing almost any mouse that uses the Bluetooth technology to pair with a device. Personally with my new iPad I am using a KeyFolio? Expert Multi Angle Folio & Keyboard and a Apple Magic Mouse to work with my documents.?I was pleasantly surprised that my Apple Magic Mouse worked very well with?BTC Mouse & Trackpad and I had no problems at all pairing.? When it comes to settings , the new?BTC Mouse & TrackPad tweak comes with many useful option like adjusting cursor speed as well as enabling Presentation mode (that transforms mouse clicks to screen swipes) making it perfect for controlling different kind of presentations.
When not in Presentation mode, the right mouse click will control your iPad’s home button and the left mouse button will obviously let you click anywhere on the iPad screen. If you want to tap and hold something on the screen you just have to press down and hold the left mouse button.Working on the same principle you you want to access the app switcher you have to press and hold down the right mouse button. If your Bluetooth mouse also comes with an scroll wheel you can make use of this feature? by scrolling through Springboard pages, or zooming in or out just like you did by pinching the screen with your fingers.
The BTC Mouse & TrackPad can also make your life easier when it comes to trackpads. It works very well with Apple Magic Trackpad, but it has its limitations. For instance multi gestures are not yet supported.
Troubleshooting
There are times when connecting different Bluetooth devices can get a little tricky. There are many people who experience problems with the Bluetooth connection on their iPad. I must admit that working with the BTC Mouse & Trackpad tweak was a complete delight and I have not encountered any issues. That is maybe on the one hand due to the automatic reconnect feature the tweak comes with.
To connect a mouse to your iPAd all you have to go to Bluetooth Settings (from your device settings section). Here you will find new options specific for the BTC Mouse & Trackpad tweak that include a packet logger, a killer switch and the normal Devices section where the connection is normally established.
The best part is that the BTC Mouse & Trackpad tweak is fully integrated with your device’s iOS Bluetooth. This makes you able to continue using your favorite Bluetooth headphones while using your keyboard and mouse.
The app is available on Cydia’s BigBoss repo.
