How to set scroll direction and cursor speed Magic Mouse / Trackpad on iPad Pro

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Apple has developed greatly in recent years generations of iPad, and for productivity in some areas have become more useful than a PC or laptop.

An iPad can be used for complete tasks, and when it has a mouse or trackpad connected, the work becomes very easy.
With iOS 13, Apple separate development of the operating system for the iPad began. The named system iPadOS is all based on iOS, but it contains some features dedicated to iPad tablets.

A very important feature that Apple emphasized in the latest updates, is the support for mouse and trackpad.

If you have a Magic Mouse or Trackpad connected to the iPad, you can do custom settings for cursor movement speed or to change the scroll direction from “natural” to “unnatural”.

Compared to other platforms such as Windows or Android, Apple uses by default the reverse direction of scrolling. If on Windows, when scrolling on a webpage, it will track the movement of your fingers on the trackpad or Magic Mouse, on devices with macOS, iOS or iPadOS, the movement will be reversed.
This change of direction can confuse users who are accustomed to non-operating systems.Apple.

Fortunately, both on all operating systems Apple, the user can choose to change the scroll direction from "natural" (default Apple) unnatural for the system, web pages, documents.

How to change the scroll direction on the iPad - Natural / Unnatural

1. We must first have a mouse / Magic Mouse or trackpad. The connection is made via Bluetooth.

2. Go to “Settings”→“General”→“Trackpad & Mouse".

3. From the settings “Trackpad & Mouse” we can change the scroll direction from "natural" to "unnatural" by simply unchecking the option, and in the upper part we change the speed of the mouse / trackpad cursor.

Also from here we can set the secondary click (right click) for Magic Mouse.

For a good experience it is necessary to have the latest version of iPadOS 13 or newer version.

Support for typing si trackpad was added with iPadOS 13.

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