{"id":1175,"date":"2025-10-28T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/28\/supermouse-secret-ipad-feature\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:03:06","slug":"supermouse-secret-ipad-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/28\/supermouse-secret-ipad-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"SuperMouse! (Secret iPad feature?)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This was a secret feature, at least for me. I figured it out on my own because it practically reach out and slapped me in the face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who don\u2019t know, an iPad can magnetically attach to an Apple Magic Keyboard and you get the full \u201claptop\u201d experience of keyboard and trackpad. At least I can. My computing power requirements are quite low. The most computer intensive thing I do these days is this blog. Matter of fact I haven\u2019t owned or used a real personal computer or laptop in over 10 years. Feels kind of liberating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which brings me to the subject of today\u2019s post. The mouse – or trackpad pointer, whatever you want to call it – can be easy to lose for my aging eyesight. Where is that thing? So you know what you do – you shake the finger back and forth real quick-like so your eyes might pick up that movement and reveal the secret location of your pointer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There I was moving my finger back and forth over the trackpad, when lo and behold IT GREW! Faster than a 20 year old\u2019s penis on boner pills. In the picture above, I took a screenshot of the large pointer and held my current regular pointer just underneath for size comparison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well done, Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woah! Apple worked in a way to show you your mouse when you lose it on your iPad screen while using the Magic Keyboard. More on my corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"SuperMouse! (Secret iPad feature?)","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138],"tags":[180,626,625,627],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipad","tag-ipad","tag-mouse","tag-pointer","tag-trackpad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3068.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}