iPad Pro iPad OS 13.4 How to have Right Click enabled on a Bluetooth Mouse ?

[nicho]

Ok. So i don’t know what was your motive behind suggesting me to read this content, but it is just a information on what Assistive Touch is and what Assistive Touch can do ? May I ask you how does this address the concern I have ?

I was saying with my Bluetooth Mouse I have mapped four Buttons to Four Functions one of them is open Assistive touch Menu. You came in here saying how many times people need to tell you, that you do not need to have assistive touch on to have its menu. I asked you explain me how ? And you gave that article to read. I put oil in my eyes and was also trying to read in between the line, inside outside everywhere. but still could not find out how can it address my current query.

So unless if you can very specifically tell me anything about my current query ? I think lets not beat around the Bush !!

I am looking for a way to open Assistive touch Menu without assigning it to any Button on my Mouse ?

That's not what I actually said.

I hate to keep asking the same question but you don't seem to get it - Why do you think you need to open the assistive touch menu in the first place? This is not the same thing as having assistive touch enabled.

You can enable assistive touch in one of the many ways the article suggests. I'll copy paste them here for ease.

Ask Siri. Say something like: “Turn on AssistiveTouch” or “Turn off AssistiveTouch.” Learn how to ask Siri.

Tip: To turn AssistiveTouch on or off quickly, triple-click the top button

You need assistive touch to be enabled in order to map the buttons as you wish. I'll put this in bold and underlined if that's your preferred way of communicating it:

You do not need to assign any of the buttons to "open the assistive touch menu" in order to use the others in the way you have assigned them.

I have mice connected to ipads at home and work. None of my buttons are assigned to "open the assistive touch menu". They have other functions mapped to them in assistive touch settings. Since I have older ipads, I just triple click the home button (assistive touch is mapped to the accessibility setting... you can re-read the linked article and find ways that will work for you if you want to be able to enable or disable assistive touch) and away I go.

I have a suggestion. Just try doing what @sparksd said and see what happens. It might help you see how it works, rather than imagining problems because you've misunderstood something along the way.


Button 1 - Right Click
Button 2 - Home
Button 3- Volume Up
Button 4 - Volume Down

 

[sparksd]

Just for my understanding, I believe you are also using the same Mouse i.e. Logitech MX Anywhere 2 right ? Can you just post how have you mapped all the Buttons on your Mouse.

So now the way I have mapped my Buttons on my Mouse is

Button 1 - Right Click to Copy & Paste
Button 2 - Open Assistive touch Menu (Right now I have added go to Home in this Menu)
Button 3- Volume Up
Button 4 - Volume Down

But this leaves me with an issue on how to go to Home Screen with the mouse ? Earlier I had Button 2 mapped to go to Home Screen. But now since I have mapped Button 2 to Open Assistive Touch Menu. I am left with no other option on how to go to Home Screen. I know I can just keep going down on the dock and then still drag more down to go to home screen, also I have also customised the assistive touch menu to also include Home Screen option. But having a seperate button to go to Home Screen was so convenient.

I'm using the MX Anywhere 2S which I thought is the same as the 2 regarding buttons. The 2S has 5 buttons: 1 - left click; 2- right click; 3- behind scroll wheel; 4 & 5 - side.

Button 1 - Single-Tap
Button 2 - Secondary Click
Button 3 - Home
Button 4 - App Switcher
Button 5 - Control Center

AssistiveTouch On-Off toggle is accessible in Control Center - Accessibility Shortcuts.

 

[augustya]

Ask Siri. Say something like: “Turn on AssistiveTouch” or “Turn off AssistiveTouch.” Learn how to ask Siri.

Tip: To turn AssistiveTouch on or off quickly, triple-click the top button

I read that already. This is not nearly as convenient as having a mouse button Mapped to open Assistive Touch Menu especially if you have the iPad Mounted on a stand and you are using an external Keyboard and a mouse.

You do not need to assign any of the buttons to "open the assistive touch menu" in order to use the others in the way you have assigned them.

The reason I wanted an Assistive touch Menu Mapped to a Button on my Mouse is because I have go to home screen function mapped on one of the Button on the Mouse and I thought that was far more convenient. I know I can go to home screen by dragging the cursor down on the Dock. But the button on the Mouse was way convenient.
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I'm using the MX Anywhere 2S which I thought is the same as the 2 regarding buttons. The 2S has 5 buttons: 1 - left click; 2- right click; 3- behind scroll wheel; 4 & 5 - side.

Button 1 - Single-Tap
Button 2 - Secondary Click
Button 3 - Home
Button 4 - App Switcher
Button 5 - Control Center

AssistiveTouch On-Off toggle is accessible in Control Center - Accessibility Shortcuts.

Actuallly I have the 2S sorry for the mess up.

I have assigned Button 4-5 to Volume up and down. and Volume 3- to Open the entire Assistive Touch Menu instead of just go to Home.

 

[nicho]

I read that already. This is not nearly as convenient as having a mouse button Mapped to open Assistive Touch Menu especially if you have the iPad Mounted on a stand and you are using an external Keyboard and a mouse.



The reason I wanted an Assistive touch Menu Mapped to a Button on my Mouse is because I have go to home screen function mapped on one of the Button on the Mouse and I thought that was far more convenient. I know I can go to home screen by dragging the cursor down on the Dock. But the button on the Mouse was way convenient.

I still think you don't understand what is required or what having assistive touch enabled actually entails.

As an experiment, I decided to map the assistive touch menu to my right click button. The mapping doesn't work without assistive touch enabled - it's just a normal right click without it. The fact that your mouse button shortcut to open the assistive touch menu works means that assistive touch is enabled already.

Mapping a button to a menu for the purposes of selecting one specific action, when that action could be mapped straight to the button, is crazy. Please, just try it. Set the button that opens "Menu" to "Home" instead. Done. Problem solved. It will still work exactly as you want.

 

[augustya]

. Set the button that opens "Menu" to "Home" instead. Done. Problem solved. It will still work exactly as you want.

But then I am left with the question of How do I map Volume up and down which I had mapped to button 3&4. lol ! Although I think I can do with that my keyboard aswell, which also has Volume up and down hot keys on the keyboard.

 

[sparksd]

But then I am left with the question of How do I map Volume up and down which I had mapped to button 3&4. lol ! Although I think you I can do with that my keyboard aswell, which Laos has Volume up and down hot keys on the keyboard.

That, or with my Control Center button I use the slider there.

 

[nicho]

But then I am left with the question of How do I map Volume up and down which I had mapped to button 3&4. lol ! Although I think you I can do with that my keyboard aswell, which Laos has Volume up and down hot keys on the keyboard.

You are not left with that question at all. Please... just... try... it.

Go into your assistivetouch settings, change the mapping of "Menu" to "Home", try it, come back and thank me for persevering while you change your question multiple times.

If you are looking for a way to open Assistive touch Menu without assigning it to any Button on my Mouse as you said on the previous page... you just enable "always show menu" and it will be there. That's not actually what you seem to want though so it was an odd rephrasing of the question.

Remapping the "Menu" button will not affect the mapping of the other buttons you have assigned to volume up and volume down.
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That, or with my Control Center button I use the slider there.

With all due respect, I think you're just going to confuse the geezer with this answer.

The important thing to tell him is that all of your buttons work as assigned in assistivetouch settings and none of them is assigned to open "Menu"...

 

[ed.]

this is pure gold.

 

[augustya]

You are not left with that question at all. Please... just... try... it.

Go into your assistivetouch settings, change the mapping of "Menu" to "Home", try it, come back and thank me for persevering while you change your question multiple times.

If you are looking for a way to open Assistive touch Menu without assigning it to any Button on my Mouse as you said on the previous page... you just enable "always show menu" and it will be there. That's not actually what you seem to want though so it was an odd rephrasing of the question.

Remapping the "Menu" button will not affect the mapping of the other buttons you have assigned to volume up and volume down.
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With all due respect, I think you're just going to confuse the geezer with this answer.

The important thing to tell him is that all of your buttons work as assigned in assistivetouch settings and none of them is assigned to open "Menu"...

Ok I get your point but now the situation is I have 5 Buttons on my Mouse 1. Right Click- which I have mapped to Secondary Click then there is 2. scroll bar which I have not assigned anything to, then there is 3. Button 3 which I have assigned to go to Home Screen and Button 4 and 5 which I had assigned to Volume Up & Down. I had to remove it and assign Button-5 to App Switcher and Button 4 to Volume down. So I am missing on the Volume up functionality on my Mouse button.

Sorry But looks like I am again not at clue when you say “Remapping the "Menu" button will not affect the mapping of the other buttons you have assigned to volume up and volume down”. It will right ? because now Button-4 which was earlier Volume Up is now actually App Switcher.

 

[nicho]

Ok I get your point but now the situation is I have 5 Buttons on my Mouse 1. Right Click- which I have mapped to Secondary Click then there is 2. scroll bar which I have not assigned anything to, then there is 3. Button 3 which I have assigned to go to Home Screen and Button 4 and 5 which I had assigned to Volume Up & Down. I had to remove it and assign Button-5 to App Switcher and Button 4 to Volume down. So I am missing on the Volume up functionality on my Mouse button.

Sorry But looks like I am again not at clue when you say “Remapping the "Menu" button will not affect the mapping of the other buttons you have assigned to volume up and volume down”. It will right ? because now Button-4 which was earlier Volume Up is now actually App Switcher.

Remapping the menu button didn't affect the mapping of the buttons assigned to volume up and volume down. Making a random choice to redesignate volume up to app switcher... well clearly. But that's irrespective of having it mapped to menu. Good choice btw - my spare mouse for my home ipad only has 3 buttons so I went with single click/right click/app switcher.

Anyway... why not assign 2 (scroll bar) to the app switcher and restore button 5 to volume up...

 

[augustya]

Anyway... why not assign 2 (scroll bar) to the app switcher and restore button 5 to volume up...

Nope as far as I know you cannot assign scroll bar to anything in MX Anywhere 2S, People having the same Mouse please correct me if that is possible ?

 

[nicho]

Nope as far as I know you cannot assign scroll bar to anything in MX Anywhere 2S, People having the same Mouse please correct me if that is possible ?

You've already replied to a post in this thread who assigned 5 buttons. There must be another that's assignable, or you're confusingly ignoring the left click/button 1 while at the same time talking about an imaginary button that can't be used in iPad OS (the scroll wheel)?

I'm using the MX Anywhere 2S which I thought is the same as the 2 regarding buttons. The 2S has 5 buttons: 1 - left click; 2- right click; 3- behind scroll wheel; 4 & 5 - side.

Button 1 - Single-Tap
Button 2 - Secondary Click
Button 3 - Home
Button 4 - App Switcher
Button 5 - Control Center

Use the terminology sparksd did. What do you have assigned to each of them. Screenshot of your assistivetouch settings might make things easier.

 

[augustya]

You've already replied to a post in this thread who assigned 5 buttons. There must be another that's assignable, or you're confusingly ignoring the left click/button 1 while at the same time talking about an imaginary button that can't be used in iPad OS (the scroll wheel)?



Use the terminology sparksd did. What do you have assigned to each of them. Screenshot of your assistivetouch settings might make things easier.

Yes Button 1- Left Click assigned to Single Tap

Attached is the screenshot.

 

[nicho]

Yes Button 1- Left Click assigned to Single Tap

Attached is the screenshot.

Unfortunately that does seem to be all of the buttons used.

You could, ironically, assign button 5 to "Menu" and add volume up and volume down to the assistive touch menu 😹

 

[AutomaticApple]

this is pure gold.

I totally agree. 🍿

 

[Never mind]

Logitech M720

1. Set to NONE
2. Set to NONE in order for Cut & Past to work (go figure)
3. Set for App Switcher
4. Set for Screen Shot

At least for me, trying to set the right button will not allow me to get Cut and Paste on this forum. Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s the mouse, Whatever it is, it is screwy, but at least now I have what I want works. Perhaps an update will help out in the future. But I’m glad we do have mouse support no matter how limited it is for some.

perhaps for you things will get better later on.

 

[augustya]

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Logitech M720

1. Set to NONE
2. Set to NONE in order for Cut & Past to work (go figure)
3. Set for App Switcher
4. Set for Screen Shot

At least for me, trying to set the right button will not allow me to get Cut and Paste on this forum. Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s the mouse, Whatever it is, it is screwy, but at least now I have what I want works. Perhaps an update will help out in the future. But I’m glad we do have mouse support no matter how limited it is for some.

perhaps for you things will get better later on.

How did you get to assign the scroll button to take screenshot ? With the MX Anywhere 2 S it is not possible I believe.

 

[Never mind]

How did you get to assign the scroll button to take screenshot ? With the MX Anywhere 2 S it is not possible I believe.

Just like the other ones that were assigned. When you start the assigning, I just press gently down on the Scroll button, as I did with the other mouse button and it took me to the list provided and I went to “Screenshot” and clicked on my left mouse button to assign that function.

 

[augustya]

Just like the other ones that were assigned. When you start the assigning, I just press gently down on the Scroll button, as I did with the other mouse button and it took me to the list provided and I went to “Screenshot” and clicked on my left mouse button to assign that function.

I tried on the Logitech MX Anywhere 2S looks like it is not possible to assign anything to the scroll wheel.

 

[Never mind]

Interesting. Appears that different Pointing devices have different capabilities. Mine was really easy. When ask which button to use I automatically pressed down on the scroll wheel, then it took me to the list to choose from.

 

[sparksd]

Interesting. Appears that different Pointing devices have different capabilities. Mine was really easy. When ask which button to use I automatically pressed down on the scroll wheel, then it took me to the list to choose from.

Yeah, with the 2S a gentle press of the scroll wheel is not recognized as doing anything. A full press of it is a solid click that toggles the discreet scroll clicks | smooth scrolling (but which is also assignable to an action).

 

[augustya]

Yeah, with the 2S a gentle press of the scroll wheel is not recognized as doing anything. A full press of it is a solid click that toggles the discreet scroll clicks | smooth scrolling (but which is also assignable to an action).

I tried gentle press and even hard press on the scroll wheel of the MX Anywhere 2S but for me it is not giving an option to assign it to a function. I wonder why ?

 

[sparksd]

I tried gentle press and even hard press on the scroll wheel of the MX Anywhere 2S but for me it is not giving an option to assign it to a function. I wonder why ?

Did you first select Customize Additional Buttons? It will then ask you to use the button and then provide the assignment options.

 

[augustya]

Did you first select Customize Additional Buttons? It will then ask you to use the button and then provide the assignment options.

I think so I did. But I will do it again.

So you are saying after I click on Customize additional Button, I press on the scroll wheel and hold it ? You said gently doesnt work so how ? I hope pressing the scroll wheel heavily does not break it. lol !

 

[sparksd]

I think so I did. But I will do it again.

So you are saying after I click on Customize additional Button, I press on the scroll wheel and hold it ? You said gently doesnt work so how ? I hope pressing the scroll wheel heavily does not break it. lol !

I tried the gentle press and it did nothing. A full press and click of the wheel will work but I don't want to change the distinct click of the scrolling action so I left it as is.