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Welcome, I'm filming with an iPad from 2021 and today I'll show you how to connect a gamepad to it
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So I do have an Xbox controller right here and I'll show you how to connect this. Now if you're
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wondering why you might want to do this, because to be honest it has no functionality on the home
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screen itself, it's just kind of useless. The reason for it might be some games actually do
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support a gamepad controller, so just any kind of mobile game some of them do have support for it
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and additionally if using something like Google Stadia or maybe GeForce Now, a gamepad there works
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just flawlessly and probably will be way better of an experience with a gamepad than if you try to
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use the on-screen navigations and stuff like that. And additionally if you at least I tried using
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GeForce Now with a mouse and keyboard on an iPad mini, but even though apparently the iPad OS
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has a mouse support, yeah it does have a mouse support on the home screen and like just navigating
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but it just completely doesn't work in any kind of application that needs an actual cursor. The
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iPad OS doesn't have a cursor, it has basically a virtualized touch input which doesn't work
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whatsoever in for instance GeForce Now. Not in the slightest, you can't even like move around the pan
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you can't even click, making it kind of useless. So the gamepad will solve that problem. So anyway
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connecting it, you want to navigate into your settings, then find Bluetooth which is right at
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the top somewhere and just have it visible right here. On the gamepad if using also Xbox controller
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I'm pretty sure you know how to pair it, but if you don't turn it on and then hold the pair button
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right here and as you will see the light starts blinking frequently like so. So now simply wait
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for it to show up on your tablet and there we go. Click on it, the light will become stable
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Appear unsuccessful, well that's interesting. There we go and as you can see now it is stable and it is connected. Now like I mentioned it
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has basically virtually no effect on here apart from apparently being able to take a screenshot
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somehow. I'm just spamming on the buttons, I don't actually know which one takes a screenshot
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which one takes a screenshot but anyway. So it does work in some way but that's about all it
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does, it takes screenshots. So anyway if you found this video helpful don't forget to hit like
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subscribe and thanks for watching
