You can use a wireless mouse with an iPad that's running iPadOS 13.4 or later, which includes every iPad Pro and most other new models.

You can easily access all of these things from your iPad with a set of simple-to-use apps, and where those don’t work, you can actually control your computer—mouse and all—from your iPad.

Controlling a Computer With an iPad. The popularity of iPads in business has caused users to find ways to further connect the experience of the desktop or laptop computer to the iPad.

You can do a ton of great things with just an iPad, but some of the best uses are using it as an external controller for your computer. From using your iPad as a second display to turning it into ...

Universal Control means you can use the same mouse and keyboard with multiple Macs and iPads. You can also use an external KVM, or virtual KVM software.

SAN JOSE — Swipe, swipe, pinch-zoom. Fifth-grader Josephine Nguyen is researching the definition of an adverb on her iPad and her fingers are flying across the screen. Her 20 classmates are ...

I gasped when I first saw the iPad's new cursor—a little circle, a shape-shifting blob. Because for decades, cursors have been as cursors are. The prototype to the computer mouse as we know it ...

Apple's new iPad Pro and older iPads will finally have mouse support, one of the tablets' biggest shortcomings when it comes to replacing your laptop.

With iPadOS 26, showcased at Apple June 2025 WWDC conference, the popular tablet family is getting one of its biggest overhauls ever. As my most-used computer, I've always strained against the ...