Unlike the mouse cursor, which has a shadow and border, the touch pointer can sometimes be difficult to spot. Here's some of the accessibility options: Accessible Cursors When the cursor is inside a button, it can shine as you move the mouse to the edges:
It even feels a bit like the focus outline on a website (when you tab through elements on the page). It's like the original green circle changes into a green square, highlighting elements to show they're in focus: If you turn on the cursor border in the accessibility settings, this pointer magnetism becomes more obvious. When there’s an element in the pointer’s path, the system uses magnetism to pull the pointer toward the element’s center. When people flick the pointer toward an element, iPadOS examines the pointer’s trajectory to discover the element that’s the most likely target. It also works with dynamic movements that are more related to how your finger would move: It's what Apple calls ' Pointer Magnetism':Īccording to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, each element on the UI has a 'hit region', and as you get close to it, the system begins to transform the pointer’s shape. On the iPadOS, as you approach and hover certain elements such as buttons, the cursor morphs around the element, like a little capsule. Here are some observations and new things to consider with touch cursors, starting with Pointer Magnetism: Cursor Shapes and Pointer Magnetism After playing with an iPad trackpad, I thought this blob cursor is another great demonstration of how cursors can become more useful and fun to use through changing their shape and form. In my last post on collaboration tool cursors, I outlined how mouse pointers come in different shapes and sizes these days, and can even include elements to become ' video cursors' or ' avatar cursors'.
The cursor changes from dark to light depending on what's underneath it, keeping a good contrast. It's more dynamic and interactive than a regular mouse arrow though - for example, the colour adapts to different backgrounds for accessibility: Then a couple years ago, Apple reinvented the cursor to be ' touch-first' - on the new iPadOS, the cursor became a transparent round blob that interacts with elements just like a finger would. They'd always been the same slanted arrow from Xerox engineer, Douglas Engle. Until Apple's iPad cursor, the mouse arrow hadn't really evolved much since 1981.
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