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BLE mouse with iOS

When I use the BLE mouse example in the nRF5 SDK (17.0.2), it works on iOS (14). However, the report is divided into 3 parts. I would like to combine the mouse buttons, X, Y and Wheel in one report (in that order). However, this doesn't seem to work on iOS, even though it works if I also add a keyboard descriptor and it works on other OS. I assume this is a bug in iOS? Is this why the mouse example splits the report?

Works (modified from mouse example):

        0x05, 0x01, // Usage Page (Generic Desktop)
        0x09, 0x02, // Usage (Mouse)

        0xA1, 0x01, // Collection (Application)

        // Report ID 1: Mouse motion
        0x85, 0x01,       // Report Id 1
        0x09, 0x01,       // Usage (Pointer)
        0xA1, 0x00,       // Collection (Physical)

        0x75, 0x0C,       // Report Size (12)
        0x95, 0x02,       // Report Count (2)
        0x05, 0x01,       // Usage Page (Generic Desktop)
        0x16, 0x01, 0xF8, // Logical maximum (2047)
        0x26, 0xFF, 0x07, // Logical minimum (-2047)
        0x09, 0x30,       // Usage (X)
        0x09, 0x31,       // Usage (Y)
        0x81, 0x06,       // Input (Data, Variable, Relative)

        0x75, 0x08,       // Report Size (8)
        0x95, 0x01,       // Report Count (1)
        0x05, 0x01,       // Usage Page (Generic Desktop)
        0x09, 0x38,       // Usage (Wheel)
        0x15, 0x81,       // Logical Minimum (-127)
        0x25, 0x7F,       // Logical Maximum (127)
        0x81, 0x06,       // Input (Data, Variable, Relative)
        0xC0,             // End Collection (Physical)
        

        // Report ID 2: Mouse buttons + scroll/pan
        0x85, 0x02,       // Report Id 2
        0x09, 0x01,       // Usage (Pointer)
        0xA1, 0x00,       // Collection (Physical)
        0x95, 0x05,       // Report Count (3)
        0x75, 0x01,       // Report Size (1)
        0x05, 0x09,       // Usage Page (Buttons)
        0x19, 0x01,       // Usage Minimum (01)
        0x29, 0x05,       // Usage Maximum (05)
        0x15, 0x00,       // Logical Minimum (0)
        0x25, 0x01,       // Logical Maximum (1)
        0x81, 0x02,       // Input (Data, Variable, Absolute)
        0x95, 0x01,       // Report Count (1)
        0x75, 0x03,       // Report Size (3)
        0x81, 0x01,       // Input (Constant) for padding
        0xC0,             // End Collection (Physical)
        
        0xC0,             // End Collection (Application)

Does not work (also removed report characteristics and changed INPUT_REPORT_COUNT):

        0x05, 0x01, // Usage Page (Generic Desktop)
        0x09, 0x02, // Usage (Mouse)

        0xA1, 0x01, // Collection (Application)

        // Report ID 1: Mouse motion
        0x85, 0x01,       // Report Id 1
        0x09, 0x01,       // Usage (Pointer)
        0xA1, 0x00,       // Collection (Physical)

        0x95, 0x05,       // Report Count (3)
        0x75, 0x01,       // Report Size (1)
        0x05, 0x09,       // Usage Page (Buttons)
        0x19, 0x01,       // Usage Minimum (01)
        0x29, 0x05,       // Usage Maximum (05)
        0x15, 0x00,       // Logical Minimum (0)
        0x25, 0x01,       // Logical Maximum (1)
        0x81, 0x02,       // Input (Data, Variable, Absolute)
        0x95, 0x01,       // Report Count (1)
        0x75, 0x03,       // Report Size (3)
        0x81, 0x01,       // Input (Constant) for padding

        0x75, 0x0C,       // Report Size (12)
        0x95, 0x02,       // Report Count (2)
        0x05, 0x01,       // Usage Page (Generic Desktop)
        0x16, 0x01, 0xF8, // Logical maximum (2047)
        0x26, 0xFF, 0x07, // Logical minimum (-2047)
        0x09, 0x30,       // Usage (X)
        0x09, 0x31,       // Usage (Y)
        0x81, 0x06,       // Input (Data, Variable, Relative)

        0x75, 0x08,       // Report Size (8)
        0x95, 0x01,       // Report Count (1)
        0x05, 0x01,       // Usage Page (Generic Desktop)
        0x09, 0x38,       // Usage (Wheel)
        0x15, 0x81,       // Logical Minimum (-127)
        0x25, 0x7F,       // Logical Maximum (127)
        0x81, 0x06,       // Input (Data, Variable, Relative)
        0xC0,             // End Collection (Physical)
        
        0xC0,             // End Collection (Application)

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