A while back I decided that I needed a new, portable Bluetooth keyboard to use with my mobile devices. I saw an ad in Instagram for the Nillkin keyboard that is a tri-fold that when folds us a little smaller than the iPad Mini. You aren’t going to carry this in your pocket, but it fits nicely in a back and it is a full size keyboard with a number row and a numeric keypad that doubles as a touchpad. It pairs with three devices that you can easily switch between.

Having just installed the public beta of iPadOS 26 on my 4th generation iPad Air, I first paired the new keyboard to that iPad and found everything to work except that I couldn’t get mouse clicks to work.

The touchpad is a 2.5 x 2.5 inch square that doubles as a numeric keypad. The keys of the pad are touch points on the pad, for example you tap the upper left of the pad for the equal key. Normally the pad is locked in touchpad mode and I can easily slide my fingertips over it to move the cursor and make gestures. To do a mouse clicks I was tapping in the center of the pad as I do with every other notebook touchpad and it did not work.

Turns out that the space at the lower right corner of the pad that is labeled Enter is and actual button and where I have to tap for mouse clicks. I just discovered it this morning and this is not in any of the documentation.