iPADOS
by right-clicking your mouse. To hide the menu,
though, you can go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch
> AssistiveTouch and untoggle Always Show Menu.
Provided you don’t change the settings, it will always
reappear when you right-click.
As you can probably tell, there’s a lot about this
setup that takes some getting used to. For one, if you
don’t use the right-click menu button mentioned above,
you’llneedtouseyourmousetomimicthegestures
youusewithyourfingerfornavigation(suchasswiping
up from the bottom in order to open Exposé). You can’t
just tap down and select text as you would with an
ordinary mouse; instead, you need to double-click on a
word with the left mouse button and drag the toggle if
you want to highlight the rest of the selection.
Fortunately, there are a few ways you can make your
mouseexperienceontheiPhoneoriPadmorepleasant.
Below,you’llfindsomeofmyfavourites.Adjust the tracking speed
Right out of the gate, I thought the tracking speed
for my mouse was way, way too fast for my iPhone.
If you have the same problem, you can easily change
it by going to Settings > Accessibility > Touch >
AssistiveTouch and scrolling down to Tracking Speed.
You’ll see a bar there that you can adjust as needed.Customize the buttons on your mouse
If you want to customize what your buttons do on
you mouse, you can do so by going to Settings >
Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch > Pointing
Devices and then selecting your connected mouse.