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by Teckla 3006 days ago
As someone that uses his iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard frequently, I'd say the bigger issue is lack of mouse support in iOS.

It's terrible to have to keep reaching up and pawing at the screen.

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I wonder why this hasn't been added yet. I haven't used my iPad2 in a couple of years but back when I got it (due to the lack of any reasonably comparable devices running Android or Windows at the time) I remember jailbreaking it as soon as possible.

I installed a few things from the Cydia store to overcome what I saw as missing functionality--stuff like adding a number row to the keyboard so I didn't have to keep toggling between letters and numbers, improving notifications, forcing resized phone apps to use a higher resolution, etc.

One major app allowed me to connect a bluetooth mouse and use that for typical mousy stuff. In the years since I was tinkering with that iPad, I've seen so many of my initial complaints fixed so I'm surprised that mouse support isn't on the list yet.

This. My wife uses a iPad + keyboard as her sole computer, and lack of a mouse is her only complaint.