Connecting a mouse to the iPad with iPadOS allows you to be much more productive since it is close to the experience you can have on a Mac. In the event that you are using a mouse with different iPadOS action buttons, it allows you to customize them to your liking. In this article we tell you how you can do it.
Why customize mouse buttons on iPad
If you are a person who works daily with the iPad for many hours, you are surely interested in having different shortcuts available so that you do not have to resort to touching the screen to carry out some daily actions. Thanks to the customization options of the mouse buttons, different actions can be assigned. For example, you can configure exiting the application you are in to return to the main screen and open a different one. As it is very thought for accessibility among the customization options, for example, access to the control center, taking screenshots, rotating or reading the screen stands out.
The only drawback that can be found is that you need to have a mouse that has multiple buttons . Although it may seem obvious, it should be borne in mind that some mice such as Apple‘s Magic Mouse 2 only have a physical button. This is why to be fully customizable you need to have a peripheral with shortcut buttons, such as the MX Master, which is very suitable for editors thanks to these buttons.
Customize mouse buttons on iPad
To customize the mouse buttons, you must first connect the device to the iPad through the accessibility options. Within these settings you can make the corresponding customization. You simply have to follow the following steps:
- Go to Settings> Accessibility.
- Go to Tap> AssistiveTouch .
- In the ‘pointing devices’ block click on Devices> Bluetooth Devices…
- Select your mouse from the list of drivers.
- Click on ‘Customize additional buttons …’
- Click the button that you want to customize the mouse.
- Choose the action you want to link to the button you clicked.
The moment you associate the mouse button with a specific function, you can use it that way. But do not forget to choose the primary button as one of the functions since if not, you can forget to open applications in a simple way as if it were a Mac computer. In the end what you get is to have an experience as similar as possible to the Mac.
Supported Quick Features
The quick actions that can be chosen within the accessibility options are the following:
- Simple press.
- Secondary click.
- Open menu.
- Shake.
- Analysis.
- Lower volume.
- Lock screen.
- Block rotation.
- Screenshot.
- Control center.
- Notification center.
- Dock.
- Quick accessibility function.
- Turn
- Start.
- Hold and drag.
- Move menu.
- To pinch.
- Pinch and rotate.
- Long press.
- Restart.
- Siri.
- Read screen.
- Shift to the right.
- Shift left.
- Scroll down.
- Scroll up.
- Go to the end.
- Go to start.
- Run shortcut on concrete.
As you can see, there are many functions that are available in accessibility to have access to different parts of the operating system at hand. For example with a single touch you can take a screenshot or access the control center.