Full screen on external display in Remote Desktop IPad Pro

Full screen on external display in Remote Desktop IPad Pro
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 Oct 22 2021
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Working with Windows365 on my iPad Pro is amazing but it will be perfect if Remote Desktop app use the full size of the screen using external monitor.   Jump Remote Desktop have this capability but you can not connect to Windows365.   As i said.. it  wil be the ideal world o have my Win365 on the iPad using external monitor with full size screen.  

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Brass Contributor

i would suggest raising this idea at the uservoice of the workload, with enough upvotes the product team will take into consideration.

Brass Contributor

This is the place the RDP app says to go to for feedback. This should be where the RDP developers look to for their ideas. 

Copper Contributor

There was a request for this in the old feedback site - really wish Microsoft would take advantage to the external monitor functionally as they did with Dex. 

Brass Contributor

This idea was posted 2 years ago in the old uservoice plattform with ~300 upvotes and was marked as „in progress“ - so sometimes in the future, or not, this will be implemented. I think that a version in the beta channel exists what supports your request (was discussed).

 

i dunno why this is a big problem, as you said, jump desktop supports this since 4 or more years. Personal i think its a sinple marketing move to sell surface hardware.

 

 

Microsoft

Looks like this is a feature idea for Windows365. You can share this feedback here: Windows 365 feature requests - Microsoft Tech Community. In parallel we will provide feedback that the feature button leads to the wrong foru,/ We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Microsoft
Status changed to: Closed
 
Copper Contributor

Microsoft is absolutely ridiculous. How is this a W365 feature? The request is to have the iPad RD app support full screen sessions which is applicable to W365 and traditional RDP sessions against Windows VMs or desktops. You guys keep closing requests without understanding the ask and don’t even have the decency to retag. This request has been submitted in various iterations and they keep getting lost because of negligence like this…

Microsoft

I am sorry for the confusion the original posts talks about W365 which provides customizations on top of the application hence the guidance.

Copper Contributor

Thank you for the prompt response, Eva. This request has been submitted many times over the past 2 years and keeps getting lost. This was submitted in the old feedback website, but that has since been retired. The RD iPad client redirects users to this location. Any help with retagging or redirecting would be appreciated. 

Brass Contributor

Maybe. But the the „submit a feature“ bitton within the app is pointing to this subforum.

 

anyway as @MK-87 said. This feature is for 365 and on premise rdp sessions. And i dont know what you mean with „W365 which provides customizations“ this isnt a configurable feature in 365 too. Its an app limitation wich is requested first about 5 years ago in the old uservoice plattform.

 

this is typically ms. Not the right forum closed-deleted-forgotten. Has any of our suggestions come to any developer or spokesman who decides an implemantation? I think not.

 

in germany we say: you can talk to a wall. The wall will move earlier to the side as someone changes his mind.

Microsoft

Be assured the feedback is passed on :)! We want to ensure you receive the right experiences for the features you use. 

Brass Contributor

So, we just can party-hard to the 1st anniversary of this feature request in this new forum. To celebrate the day i´ve made a short video wich should show the dev´s what we mean and tickle their brains to implement this feature.

 

That said, head over to the technet (Is fullscreen support on the 11” iPad Pro, too much to ask for? (microsoft.com)) where this request was answered with "I will post your suggestion/feedback to product team." In 02/2019. This suggestion is really a killer I think. Additional found via WBM the original suggestion in the uservoice board - with 154 upvotes and status "planned" (Remote Desktop Beta Client for iOS: Top (827 ideas) – Feedback for Microsoft Remote Desktop Clients ...)

 

Really MS this shame on you. https://youtu.be/kbAVH0m7WAk

The app i used is called Jump Desktop | Remote Desktop | iPad iPhone Android Mac Windows | Collaborative Screen Sharing . But its 19,99 Eur each license. But JD just not support RD-Gatway connection. They deev´s should meet each other, just an idea :D

 

 

Microsoft

Hi all,

 

Thank you for the feedback here, and sorry for the inconvenience. This is a scenario that I am actively discussing with developer team, especially in light of Stage Manager on iOS 16 for Pros. It is a feature that is planned to be built, and I will update the thread if there are any more specific timelines I can provide in the future.

 

Thanks

 

 

Microsoft
Status changed to: Planned
 
Brass Contributor

Thank you @js351 we are looking forward to see this feature in the future. Maybe we will not celebrate the 2 year anniversary here ;)

 

Btw. focusing on stagemanager is not the smartes decission. This is a iPad Pro M* only feature - atm Apple disabled the fullscreen external display support on all this devices with final 16.1, this will, or not, come back with iOS 16.2 - in the beta version it´s aviable again since tuesday. So you´ll lock out all other iDevices. Not a smart move. All actual iOS Devices support external displays, this feasture should not be senseless chip-exclusive.

 

Think of this scenario: Someone could equip his employees with iPhones/ iPads incl. a dockingstation for the devices and use this devices, with JumpDesktop, as "Thinclients". The collegues have only a single device wich handles the mobile and office workplace. Outside the MS cosmos this is reality. If you like the pain I can re-do a video which shows this scenario with an iPhone X.

 

I understand that this could be a marketing move to sell surface Devices/ Windows devices. But its really, really annoying that a 3rd party publisher have to show you how to do your-RDP on nextgen devices. Btw. the native Citrix receiver also can do fullscreen since ~4 years.

 

Just my opinion no offense. Hear the voices of some admins, users or deciders wich use this forum to bring your technology forward. Not many people take this way.

Copper Contributor

Installed brand new iPadOS 16.2 to try out the external monitor support, only to find out that the MS Remote Desktop application does not support full screen and is limited to the maximum resolution of the iPad screen, even though the external screen has a much higher resolution.

 

Also it's nearly impossible to reach any objects inside the windows near the border as the iPad mouse cursor gets in the way (cursor switches to resize function) and the triple points on the top center of the app window are hard to reach.

 

So if you need any additional motivation to upgrade the Remote Desktop app, here it is! :) 

Copper Contributor

Yes, please allow full screen on the IPAD app - this would mean it’s the perfect device for me!

Copper Contributor

Without full screen support I don’t see how I can use remote desktop on ipad pro

Copper Contributor

This is the last thing preventing me from using my iPad as a laptop replacement. Please, fix this :)

Copper Contributor

Me too, the ability to expand the RDP session to full screen on an external monitor would be amazing, please, please, please can this be done.

Brass Contributor

I think this will never come. Now again we have 3 month of standing still.

 

Support JumpDesktop, they do the job MS can´t. Sad.

 

Or is there any progress @js351 ?

Copper Contributor

A further request for any progress from @js351. 

 

This single feature is holding me back from moving from Jump Desktop to Windows 365!

 

Brass Contributor

I think it would be time to book an appointement somewhere and discuss the foods and drinks for our anniversary party. The invites should go out in june. Or will it be online? Suggestions?

Copper Contributor

Please enable this feature.

Brass Contributor

Should we serve a vegan plate too? Only softdrinks or some alcoholic shots?

I‘am so excited to see all of you in october. The invitations for the anniversary party will be send out soon.

Brass Contributor

So, whats going on? Where´s the feature?

 

A real unicorn.

Copper Contributor

Agree with all other posts, this is urgently needed. Please, Microsoft, make this a priority. Many thanks.

Copper Contributor

We really need this feature. Please. It would be nice to get this and use RDP for work. 

Copper Contributor

It has finally arrived! Only problem is, unless I'm missing something, it requires Remote Desktop to be the only app open on the iPad. Computer monitor shows the desktop and iPad shows a black screen. Can only open the app via the iPad display rather than via the external monitor (unlike, for example, Jump Desktop - where you can open the app via the external monitor and have other iPad apps open on the iPad). Bit clunky. But a start.