iPADOSFor another, you’re going to need to buy the £29
USB-A to Lightning dongle before you can hook up most
standard wired mice to older and lower-end iPads. If
you have a 2018 iPad Pro, you’ll need the £19 USB-A to
USB-C dongle. Once you’ve attached the dongle to your
mouse, you’ll need to repeat many of the steps above:
1.OpentheSettingsapp.
2.ScrolldowntoAccessibilityandpressit.
3.PressTouchunderthePhysicalandMotorsection.
4.Youshouldseea toggleforAssistiveTouch at the top.
ItwilllikelyreadOff.Pressit.
5.You’ll then go to another menu. Turn on
AssistiveTouch through the toggle at the top.
And from here, simply plug in your mouse to your
device. It should immediately start working.
Tips for calibrating your mouse
Now for the bad news. You shouldn’t expect your mouse
to work the way it would when you’re working on a Mac
or PC. You can move the cursor around the second you
plugit in,butthecursoritselfisa big,greycirclethat’s
meanttomimicafingerprint.(Theonlyoptiontochange
it is to make it bigger and change the colour to a variety
of equally obnoxious hues.) It’s not impossible to get
the same precision that you’ll get with a desktop cursor,
but it takes practice.
By default, the circular AssistiveTouch menu stays
onthescreenwhileAssistiveTouchisactive,although
youcanmoveitaroundthedisplaywithyourfinger.By
default, you also activate the menu for AssistiveTouch