There should be seamless gesture support when connecting to MacOS
I'm attempting to seriously use my iPad to connect to my remote MacOS instance for on-the-road power for software development and a myriad of other things made impossible through iPadOS alone. With the beta client (https://support.jumpdesktop.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/36922075126925-Just-started-using-the-beta-client-for-iPadOS), and connecting to an external monitor, I'm a bit closer to that, but after a quick trial I realized that reality is still not possible.
I spent one day with this setup and the shortcomings were felt immediately. The conclusion is that JumpDesktop is good for the odd mission-critical necessity, but to use it as a serious day-to-day connector to MacOS it is simply not viable.
There were two major shortcomings using JumpDestop:
1) Anyone who uses trackpad gestures is just immediately at a handicap, because none of the gestures work. iPadOS for the most part has some overlapping gestures, which means they never reach MacOS (not even when locking the cursor, etc). Sure, there are extra keyboard shortcuts to pass down to MacOS, but even those are suffixed by other keys that themselves are not native to the MacOS experience. In essence, you need to learn this on-the-go subset of keyboard shortcuts to sort of mimic some of the gestures that are so fluid and natural when using MacOS directly. This makes it very difficult to use this setup.
2) There is no ability to pass through any of the biometric FaceID or TouchID authentications. This was even more painful than point number 1. When I'm working natively on MacOS, there are numerous actions that require authentication. Anyone on a pretty modern MacBook has TouchID built in to the keyboard, so those actions are handled very quickly and seamlessly. When connecting to MacOS remotely from iPadOS, none of that happens. In fact, certain things simply will not work; while they should work, they don't. For example, I use 1Password for certain credentials, and it was impossible for me to first open Apple's Passwords' app to get the credentials and then MFA token from it and then pass it to 1Password, because each of those apps require a biometric ID verification. While they are supposed to handle typing in a password manually in the event that such verification is not possible, in reality the process never allowed me to get access to 1Password for whatever shortcomings are in the JumpDesktop software. That left me unable to authenticate with numerous services for the day. JumpDesktop should see if there's some seamless way of passing along MacOS' request for TouchID to a client iPadOS and trigger FaceID, which can then be used to validate the MacOS TouchID verification.
Without these two points addressed, JumpDesktop will, IMO, only be useful in an emergency but never for a possible desktop-on-the-go experience with iPadOS that offers a better traveling profile.
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