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hohohong

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Jun 1, 2007
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I want to set the back and forward buttons on my MX Master mouse to "CMD [" and "CMD ]". Is there a way to do that in the current iPadOS?
 

Hobbsee

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Mar 27, 2020
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Oops, sorry, I completely forgot I was in the IOS section.

I suspect your best bet is to program it onto the mouse with your mouse software, then save it to the onboard profile, so it should then work everywhere.
 

sparksd

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Jun 7, 2015
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Oops, sorry, I completely forgot I was in the IOS section.

I suspect your best bet is to program it onto the mouse with your mouse software, then save it to the onboard profile, so it should then work everywhere.

I have the MX Master 3 and I don't think that setup carries over to the iPad. On the iPad itself you assign buttons under AssistiveTouch and I don't think you can do what the OP wants.
 

Shirasaki

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May 16, 2015
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iPadOS don’t recognise those special hardware keys right off the bat as apple’s Magic Mouse and trackpad dont have many hardware keys available. Unless said mouse does optimisation for iPadOS, I don’t think those extra keys will work well, except keys that changes DPI’s. As for the profile, DPI profile definitely gets carried over, but not other functions.
 
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