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You can use an attached keyboard or touch keyboard for text entry. Clicking on ‘trackpad mode’ will give you touch-based control of the remote mouse. By clicking the small blue ‘hamburger” you can manage the experience. We have liftoff! Since the target computer doesn’t have the same aspect ratio as the iPad, you can pinch and zoom to see everything you need to. Type in the pin you selected while following the remote access steps before. If you’ve already set up the right Google account on your iPad, this should be pretty quick.Ĭhoose the computer you want to connect to here and wait for it to finish connecting. Sign in as you would with any other Google App. Once it’s installed, tap on it and open it up. First, head over to the App Store and download the Chrome Remote Desktop App. The hard part is over! On the iPad side of things there’s not much to do. That’s it on the computer side, now let’s get our iPad set up. To enable this computer for remote access, click ‘TURN ON’. Now click the extension icon from which the above popup emanated. Next click the blue download button, this will take you to the Chrome Web Store.Ĭlick ‘Add to Chrome’ and then click ‘Add Extension’ to finalize the process. All you have to do is head over to the Chrome Remote Desktop website. For every computer you want to add in future, you’ll have to repeat this extension installation process. We’ll start on the computer you want to remotely access first. Install the Chrome Remote Desktop extensionġ.Install the Chrome Remote Desktop extension.How to use Chrome Remote Desktop on an iPad This is quite possibly the simplest remote desktop solution out there! Within just a few minutes, you’ll be commanding your home computer from anywhere in the world. In what may seem like an unlikely combination, technology from Apple and Google has come together to make something rather special.

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