Remote Desktop (Win 11Pro) with Windows App Mobile on iPad-- getting touch screen to work

Question

Per title, I am able to connect to my Windows 11 with my iPad and moving around the iPad touchscreen moves a cursor, albeit cursor position seems odd. But, tapping will not select anything on the Windows machine. I tried to enable a virtual touchpad on the iPad but that didn't work. Any thoughts? Thank you. Jack

Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

You can use touch gestures to replicate mouse actions in your remote session. Two mouse modes are available:

Direct touch: where you tap on the screen is the equivalent to clicking a mouse in that position. The mouse pointer isn't shown on screen.

Mouse pointer: The mouse pointer is shown on screen. When you tap the screen and move your finger, the mouse pointer moves.

Native Windows touch and multi-touch gestures are supported in direct touch mode. The following table shows which mouse operations and trackpad gestures map to which gestures in specific mouse modes:

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Mode	Mouse operation	Touch gesture	Touch gesture sent to remote session¹
Direct touch	Left-click	Tap with one finger	Yes
Direct touch	Left-click	Tap with one finger	Yes
Direct touch	Right-click	Tap and hold with one finger	Yes
Mouse pointer	Cursor movement	Tap and hold with one finger, drag	Yes
Mouse pointer	Left-click	Tap with one finger	Yes
Mouse pointer	Left-click and drag	Double-tap and hold with one finger, then drag	Yes
Mouse pointer	Right-click	Tap with two fingers, or tap and hold with one finger	Yes
Mouse pointer	Right-click drag	Double-tap and hold with two fingers, then drag	Yes
Mouse pointer	Mouse wheel/scrolling	Tap and hold with two fingers, then drag up or down	Yes
Mouse pointer	Zoom	With two fingers, pinch to zoom out and spread fingers apart to zoom in	No

1. Yes means the touch gesture is sent to the remote session. No means the touch gesture happens on the local device. You can also include and modifiers with touch gestures that are sent to a remote session.SHIFTALT

Reference Links:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-app/input-keyboard-mouse-touch-pen?tabs=ios-ipados

I hope the information above is helpful.

Best regards

Zunhui

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