Too infuriated to write down all the issues with using Miro with a tablet, but wanted to start the conversation to see if anyone else is having any issues? I've recently splashed out on a Microsoft Surface Pro and I am flabbergasted how terrible Miro is on a tablet... My MS pro is actually supposed to be a tablet and laptop rolled into one, so I thought it would be perfect for online tutoring on Miro. Surely a tablet would be one of the main types of devices you would use on a whiteboard app??
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I will write a couple of things down as I remember them from this morning's lesson...Â
1. There is no easy way to paste (that I can see) using Miro.
When you long press the menu doesn't offer 'paste' as an option! 🤯 You can get around this if you are able to force a keyboard pop up. Many tablets do not have this function but mine does thankfully. Why in God's name would it not be in the long press pop up menu? Incredible.
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2. Copy and pasting links to pdfs doesn't work.
On desktop and laptop you can go to a link to a pdf, paste the link and the pdf embeds into Miro. You can then extract the pages. It's a really useful feature and I use it constantly... On a tablet it just pastes the link as text.Â
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3. Embed iframe is glitchy.Â
Often it just appears as an image. I thought it didn't work at all as first, but eventually when I restarted it, it worked.
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4. General glitches.Â
I had to restart it several times when trying to name frames. When I typed something nothing appeared. It still kept saying 'frame 1'. Resetted it and worked fine.Â
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5. Selecting things is glitchy.Â
I could see the where the cross-hair was on the screen and it was directly over the thing I was trying to select. When I tapped Miro selected something else nearby.
I shall add more to this as it occurs to me.
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Suggested features to add:Â
- The ability to rotate objects using two fingers a you would in pretty much all touch screen apps nowadays.Â
- the ability to make circles instead of ovals, squares instead of rectangles etc. On a laptop you would hold onto 'alt'.

