Bluetooth mouse setup.... is it really this complicated?

[pgoelz]

iPhone 13 Pro, ios 16 B6
I'm using a remote desktop app (AnyDesk) to remote into my Windows PC. The program running on the PC has several functions that work best with a mouse scroll wheel..... so I'm trying to use a bluetooth mouse on the iPhone 13 Pro. I managed to get it to work but it was quite complicated. It involves using assistive touch and connecting the mouse in the assistive touch menu rather than the more obvious choice of the regular bluetooth device menu. Since I have to use assistive touch, that leaves the assistive touch dot on the screen when the mouse is not connected so I had to make two shortcuts to turn assistive touch on and off with a single click. I tried to automate it based on whether the mouse was connected but could not get that to work.

Really Apple??? Surely simply using a mouse is not THIS hard??? Did I miss something?

Even with everything working, the scroll wheel is unresponsive within AnyDesk when the scroll wheel is rolled slowly, but I think this might be an AnyDesk issue. Hard to say since AnyDesk doesn't answer my support Emails.

Note that this issue was present in ios 15 also but I'm postin ghere because I'm on ios 16B6.

Paul

 

[Slartibart]

I use a Logitech Pebble and a Microsoft Arc mouse - both simply paired via the Bluetooth settings… Did you try to see wether your mouse can be discovered via the BT settings panel? Which mouse model are you using?

 

[pgoelz]

Maybe that's the issue.... my mouse (Rocksoul Bluetooth Mouse) is NOT discovered in the regular BT menu. It IS discovered and can be connected in the Assistive Touch "devices" menu. Maybe I need a different mouse? But it works flawlessly in every Windows machine I have used.

 

[pgoelz]

I'll give the Logitech Pebble a try..... it is available (and returnable) same day from Amazon.

 

[Slartibart]

Maybe that's the issue.... my mouse (Rocksoul Bluetooth Mouse) is NOT discovered in the regular BT menu. It IS discovered and can be connected in the Assistive Touch "devices" menu. Maybe I need a different mouse? But it works flawlessly in every Windows machine I have used.

Do you know what BT version it uses? I have a few BT devices which after putting them in pairing mode take aaaaagggggggeeeeesssss till they appear in the list of devices in the BT settings. Unpair/remove the mouse from the Assistive Touch devices. Open the BT settings, put the mouse in pairing mode… and wait… let’s say minutes… maybe? 🙂

 

[pgoelz]

Well, I just got the Logitech Pebble that I ordered. While it pairs instantly in the regular BT menu and the scroll wheel works, there still is no mouse pointer unless I turn on assistive touch. What am I missing?

No idea what BT version the Rocksoul mouse uses. It is maybe five or six years old.... works fine in Windows.....