I’ve heard Universal Control uses Continuity and Handoff?Ĭorrect. If you have lots of compatible devices, the system will assume you are dragging toward the last iPad or Mac you used, assuming they are nearby. That bar has a couple of arrows you can use to line up the iPad with your Mac so that dragging the mouse feels smooth. Apple isn’t using anything more complex than proximity, so assuming your devices are close together, you’ll start a session by dragging your cursor to the left or right of the Mac’s screen and then a little beyond.ĭuring Apple’s WWDC keynote, execs showed the gray animated bar that appeared to the side of the iPad as the first cursor crossing took place. You can then move your cursor seamlessly between them. All you do is use your mouse or trackpad to push the cursor (left or right on a horizontal axis) from one device to the other until it appears on the second device. The good news for everyone else, though, is that the iPad is one step closer to functioning as a serious computer while retaining everything we love about the tablet.Assuming Handoff is enabled on all your devices, and they meet the requirements listed below, setup is pretty easy. So for folks who word process on their iPad, or who edit images and video on their iPad, or who write code on their iPad, the cursor is going to be a nice addition to their workflow – especially if they pick up Apple’s upcoming Magic Keyboard + Trackpad (available in May 2020). It all feels very tactile, and the contextual clues really help to keep things simple. And when it hovers over a button, it disappears entirely and the button itself enlarges slightly, to show that it’s about to be selected. When you’re resizing text boxes in Pages, it changes to a pair of arrows. But when you hover over text, it becomes a caret (a text cursor). This cursor is different from a traditional desktop cursor because it dynamically changes depending on the action it’s about to perform. So Apple’s brought a new kind of interaction to iPadOS. The touch screen is great, but it can be imprecise – selecting text or making careful edits to images can be difficult when using an index finger. The new iPad cursor answers a call from people who use the portable (but powerful) iPad Pro as their main computer.
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