Does the ability to use DriverKit on iPad mean that IOKit will be usable too?

With the advertisement of enhanced IO support on iPadOS16 - Will developers be able to take advantage of IOKit aswell?

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At this time, IOKit on iPadOS only allows developers to communicate with Dexts.

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Is this gonna change when iPadOS16 becomes a non beta release?

My understanding is that to be able to communicate with devices with USB drivers we should use IOKit, so we don't have to create a USB driver, is that right? or we will have to create our own USB driver with DriverKit?

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  • IOKit functionality will not change from the iPadOS 16 beta. If you need to write a driver for iPadOS, you will need to use DriverKit. IOKit will continue to be only for communication from apps to drivers.

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So if I want to connect a device to the iPad using the USB protocol, I will still have to create a driver (USB driver) or it in DriverKit? So Apple doesn't provide a USB driver?

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Just to clarify this device would be a class-compliant USB device

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