Using Remote Desktops and Published Applications

Once connected to your Horizon environment, Horizon Client for iOS provides a range of features for interacting with remote desktops and published applications. This section covers supported features for iOS clients, touch and gesture controls, audio-video redirection, clipboard and drag-and-drop operations, file and storage access, session management, and productivity options such as multitasking and shortcuts. The topics below describe how to use each of these capabilities.

• Feature Support for iOS Clients: Lists the Horizon features supported on iOS client devices, including any limitations compared to other platforms.

• Using the Unity Touch Sidebar with a Remote Desktop: Explains how to use the Unity Touch sidebar to access applications, files, and system controls while in a remote desktop session.

• Using the Unity Touch Sidebar with a Published Application: Describes how to use the Unity Touch sidebar to navigate and manage windows while working in a published application.

• Gestures: Describes the touch gestures supported by Horizon Client for iOS for scrolling, zooming, clicking, and other common interactions.

• Using Native Operating System Gestures with Touch Redirection: Explains how to enable touch redirection so that native iOS gestures are passed directly to the remote desktop or application.

• Using the Real-Time Audio-Video Feature: Describes how to use the Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV) feature to redirect the iOS device's camera and microphone to a remote session.

• Copying and Pasting Text and Images: Explains how to copy and paste text and images between the iOS device and a remote desktop or published application.

• Dragging Text and Images: Describes how to use drag-and-drop to transfer text and images between the iOS device and a remote session.

• Saving Documents in a Published Application: Explains how to save documents created or edited in a published application to a location accessible from the iOS device.

• Use Multiple Sessions of a Published Application From Different Client Devices: Describes how to run multiple simultaneous sessions of the same published application from different client devices.

• Multitasking: Explains how to use iOS multitasking features, such as Split View and Slide Over, alongside Horizon Client.

• Suppress the Cellular Data Warning Message: Describes how to disable the warning message that appears when Horizon Client connects over a cellular data network.

• Keep the Screen Alive: Explains how to prevent the iOS device screen from sleeping during an active remote desktop or published application session.

• Share Access to Local Storage with Client Drive Redirection: Describes how to use client drive redirection to give a remote desktop or published application access to local storage on the iOS device.

• Manage Remote Desktop and Published Application Shortcuts: Explains how to add, remove, and organize shortcuts for remote desktops and published applications in Horizon Client.

• Using the iPad Split Keyboard with Horizon Client: Describes how to use the iPad split keyboard feature while connected to a remote desktop or published application.

• PCoIP Client-Side Image Cache: Explains how the PCoIP client-side image cache works on iOS to improve display performance during remote sessions.

• Dragging Shortcuts and URIs: Describes how to drag remote desktop and published application shortcuts or URIs to the iOS home screen or other apps.

• Using Shortcuts: Explains how to create and use iOS Shortcuts to automate launching remote desktops and published applications with Horizon Client.

• Activate Geolocation Redirection: Describes how to enable geolocation redirection so that the iOS device's location data is shared with a remote desktop or published application.