Citrix Workspace 4+

Citrix Receiver is great and works admirably; however, there is one major thing that would make the application better. Not sure of the technical feasibility, though.

Here is the issue. Working on enterprise apps from a touch-centric device is not easy. Scrolling in Word docs, pdfs, or other applications is a challenge. Moving and resizing windows is also difficult. Editing documents is generally smooth, but has its pain points, too.

This may not be anything that Citrix can fix -- it may just be an artifact of navigating windows through a touch interface. Nevertheless, if there is some way to ease the burden of interfacing with a remote Windows machine, that would be a substantial and worthy improvement.

I’ve been using the combination of the Citrix Workspace app and its predecessor Citrix Receiver for almost 6 years now and both have been very useful in improving my efficiency during the day as a long distance commuter by allowing me to travel and use my iPad to quickly connect and work remotely on my work’s Citrix servers. Unfortunately, after I updated my iPad to iOS 13, I was no longer able to connect to my work as the iOS 13 update prevented the Workspace app from communicating with my secure browser. I wrote to the iOS Workspace app team and provided them with the technical information about what was preventing me from connecting, and they listened and released an update within a week that got me back connected to my work! Thanks for the great customer service and enabling me to work remotely again.

As soon as they figure out the issue with iOS connected to an external monitor, I will never use a windows machine or laptop again. Otherwise works seem less on my iPad Pro and iPhone 12! Text to talk feature could use a little improvement - makes you watch it delete everything you just typed and then rewrite it with any fixes - kind of bizarre actually. Otherwise surprised how well it works with Apple Pencil. Business could save a lot of money replacing pricey laptops with iPads using Citrix given that all the heavy lifting/computing power is done on the server, not iPad (which is actually pretty powerful now in and of itself!