
The iPad is, at its core, a touchscreen tablet. It’s important to note that if you don’t attach a mouse or trackpad or keyboard to your iPad, nothing will change. The Magic Trackpad 2 will work-believe it or not, up to now the iPad didn’t support it-including all its multitouch gestures. That means that you don’t need Apple’s fancy (and pricey!) Smart Keyboard to drive your iPad with a mouse or trackpad. iPadOS 13.4 is for today (if you’re using beta versions) or for next week (for everyone else). That new Magic Keyboard looks amazing, but it’s for the future. According to Apple, that device won’t even start shipping until May, and if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time. But it also announced a new iPad Pro accessory, the Magic Keyboard, which includes a trackpad.

On Wednesday morning, Apple announced new iPad Pro models that will ship next week, just like iPadOS 13.4.

And we don’t even have to wait until the fall to use it, because it’s going to arrive on every iPad capable of running iPadOS 13 next week as a part of the forthcoming iPadOS 13.4 update. In a world that’s gotten awfully used to disappointment lately, it’s far better than I imagined. Support for mice and trackpads on iPadOS is real. The iPad cursor is here, no wait required
