Remote Control
Controls and input
How to use mouse, keyboard, multi-touch, and clipboard to interact with your cloud phone through the viewer.
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The viewer turns your computer into a remote control for your cloud phone. This page only covers how you feed input into the device screen — mouse, keyboard, touch, and clipboard. The buttons in the control panel beside the video are documented separately in Viewer toolbar.
Mouse — your main tool
Moving the mouse inside the video area is the same as touching the cloud phone's screen. For the keyboard and shortcuts to work, click the video area once to give it focus — the video frame shows a highlighted border when it is focused.
- Left click — a single tap.
- Click and drag — a swipe. Use it to scroll lists, drag icons, sign signatures.
- Double click — opens an app or quickly selects, just like on a physical phone.
Avoid rapid clicks on a slow connection — the cloud phone may miss some taps.
Keyboard
While the video area has focus, every key you press is forwarded straight to the cloud phone:
- Letters and numbers — go into whichever text field is focused on the phone.
- Backspace / Delete — remove characters.
- Enter — confirm or new line.
- Function and arrow keys — also forwarded to the cloud phone.
While the video is focused, common browser shortcuts (Esc, F5, etc.) are captured by the viewer and sent to the cloud phone instead of running in the browser. Click outside the video area if you need a browser shortcut.
You can type Vietnamese, Japanese, or other languages using your computer's input method (Unikey, EVKey, macOS IME). You don't need to install one inside the cloud phone.
Multi-touch
If you're on a tablet, phone, or a laptop with a touchscreen, the viewer supports basic multi-touch gestures:
- Two-finger spread (pinch out) — zoom in inside photos, maps, browsers.
- Two-finger pinch (pinch in) — zoom out.
- One-finger swipe — equivalent to a swipe; use it to scroll or drag.
How each gesture behaves depends on the app running on the cloud phone, exactly like on a real device.
Copy and paste
The viewer supports two-way clipboard exchange between your computer and the cloud phone, and you can use familiar shortcuts while the video area is focused:
- Ctrl/Cmd + C — pulls the cloud phone's current clipboard to your computer (same as the Get clipboard action).
- Ctrl/Cmd + V — pastes your computer's clipboard text into the focused field on the cloud phone.
The Actions menu in the panel also exposes three matching clipboard buttons — see Viewer actions menu for details:
- Get clipboard — copies the cloud phone's clipboard to your computer.
- Paste — pushes your computer's clipboard into the cloud phone.
- Paste custom data — opens a dialog so you can type or paste a specific string without going through the system clipboard.
When you paste with Ctrl/Cmd + V or the Paste button, whatever sits in your computer's clipboard is pushed to the cloud phone. If you handle sensitive data, clear the clipboard first or use Paste custom data to control exactly what gets sent.