My wife’s hands were severely damaged with RA, and multi-touch gestures are basically impossible for her, so I can appreciate that a trackpad would do nothing for you. She uses a stylus almost all of the time to interact with her phone and iPad, but she doesn’t spend much time with either, preferring to do everything with her computer. She also uses styluses (pens etc.) to interact with the keyboard there, along with mouse.
Easy for me to say, but if my hands were unusual I believe that I would get more adept with voice control and dictation, which got a lot better in iOS 13. No doubt it falls short of perfection, but as with any physical challenge, there are no one size fits all solutions.
As it is, about 90% of my interaction with iPad Pro 12.9 involves using it with an external keyboard while it is on a desk (which makes touching the screen very un-ergonomic), so I’m looking for the sort of productivity (keyboard shortcuts) that have been standard for years with desktops and laptops. And we’re still not there. And I appreciate that none of that interests you.
Of course it is trivial to hook up a mouse, there are any number of inexpensive Bluetooth mice that would suffice. But that doesn’t work unless you use iPad on a stable surface, which I infer is not how you like to use yours.
For the hand-held scenarios, I like to have a stylus at hand for better precision (for my mini, that’s a Logitech Crayon).
Text selection by touch is the main difficulty I think everyone has, but if it is worse in iOS 13, I have no available basis for comparison. For me, a trackpad will mitigate this fully when I manage to de clutter my desk to make room for one (or get newer iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard, if that happens first).
As one example, support for this iOS 13 feature
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Text selection
Select text just by tapping and swiping. For quick sentence and paragraph selection, triple- or quadruple‑tap.
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Is basically non-existant. App developers haven’t bothered to implement it. I would like to use it, but apart from Notes and maybe Pages, where does it actually work as described?
The 3-finger gestures for Copy/Cut/Paste - does anyone use them? It requires specific dexterity, maybe even classical pianists would be challenged. I admit I haven’t tried it very much as it does not intersect with my use cases much, given how much I rely on external keyboard.
Wonder if any of your issues are cataloged here:
https://labs.levelaccess.com/index.p...ibility_Issues