How to Use a Keyboard and Mouse to Play Genshin Impact on iPad OS/ iOS (Workaround)

How to Use a Keyboard and Mouse to Play Genshin Impact on an iPad (Workaround)

Correction:
While I first stumbled upon Techify's video, all credits go to Crifzer for this awesome workaround.

Check out his channel here -

Crifzer:
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I've looked for workarounds everywhere (Facebook groups, Reddit, forums) but I couldn't find any solution related to GI. Eventually, I've stumbled upon video tutorials here on Youtube where other gamers made use of Switch Control to use their mouse and keyboard to play Minecraft. So I gave it a try and the same steps worked on Genshin Impact!


FYI - I'm not a native English speaker so forgive me if there were instances where I lose my train of thought and I fail to explain some steps properly. I also recorded this during the wee hours so I had to regulate my voice and I had 2 brain cells left.

In this video, I'll share with you how I play Genshin Impact on my iPad. I was bummed out when I found out that controller, keyboard, and mouse support is not yet available on the Genshin Impact iPad OS version.



If you have any questions, comment below!

Here are the steps:
1. Go to Settings - Accessibility - Switch Control - Enable Switch Control
2. Go to Switches - Add New Switch - External
3. Press the key (on your keyboard) that you'd like to assign to a particular action.
For example, W - Up, A - Left, S - Down, D - Right, E - Elemental Skill, Q - Elemental Burst
4. Change the name of the switch to something you can easily recognize
5. Select "Tap"
6. Go back to Switch Control and look for Recipes - Create New Recipe - Change the name of the recipe - then tap Assign a Switch
7. Look for the name switch that you want to set up (for example: W - Up)
8. Open Genshin Impact and wait until all on-screen buttons appear
9. Hover your finger on top of the function that you want to assign the Switch (key) to. Try your be as accurate as possible.
10. Go back to the Recipe settings and tap "Hold at Point"
11. Tap the screen on the area where you were hovering your finger over.
This will assign the key to the specific are you've touched on screen.
12. Repeat the steps above to create new switches.
13. Once all switches are set up, go to Recipes - Launch Recipe and choose the new Recipe you've created
14. Relaunch Genshin Impact, press the home button (or power button for iPad Air 4) 3x to disable/ enable Switch Control while in-game.