Apple continues to make it simpler to make use of your iPhone together with your Mac utilizing the Continuity function. Introduced with macOS Ventura, Continuity allows you to use your iPhone as a webcam in your Mac. It additionally gives a common clipboard throughout gadgets, name and textual content syncing, AirPlay streaming — and now, the flexibility to reflect your iPhone’s show on the display screen connected to your Mac.
If you’ve obtained an iPhone working iOS 18 or later and a Mac with Apple silicon or the T2 safety chip working macOS Sequoia 15 or later, then you should utilize iPhone mirroring. It’s precisely what it seems like: a real-time copy of your cellular show in your pc show, which you can too work together with. Mirroring means you may examine apps and messages whereas leaving your telephone in your pocket or drawer — and naturally, you’ve gotten the benefit of keyboard and mouse (or trackpad) management, too.
Here’s the right way to set it up. I attempted it on an iPhone 15 Pro Max working iOS 18.2.1 and a M1 MacE-book Pro working macOS Sequoia 15.2.
Getting began with iPhone mirroring
Besides the software program necessities we’ve already talked about (iOS 18 and macOS 15), there are a number of extra checks to hold out to make this work. Both the iPhone and Mac should be signed in to the identical Apple account, and the account must have two-factor authentication enabled.
Both gadgets have to have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on, and your iPhone must be locked and near your Mac. It doesn’t matter if both machine is being charged, and the function works no matter whether or not your iPhone is in StandBy mode. The Mac mustn’t be sharing its web connection utilizing Sidecar or AirPlay.
Meet all of these pretty easy circumstances, and iPhone mirroring is able to go.
- Look for an iPhone Mirroring button on the macOS dock, which seems like a small iPhone. Click this, and the connection must be established — although the primary time you utilize iPhone mirroring, you’ll be requested to authenticate the connection through Face ID, Touch ID, or your PIN on the iPhone.
- Move the cursor in your Mac simply above the mirrored iPhone display screen to get a border. You can click on and drag this border to reposition the iPhone show.
- In the top-right nook, there are icons for going again to the homescreen (the grid of squares) and app switching (the collection of rectangles), the place current apps might be discovered.
- Anything you do on the Mac will apply the motion in your iPhone, so you may open up apps, browse the online, change iOS settings, reply to messages, and no matter else. Any audio taking part in in your iPhone will likely be routed via your Mac audio system.
Using your iPhone out of your Mac
You would possibly discover it takes a while to get used to working your iPhone with a trackpad (or mouse) and a keyboard — it’s all clicking and dragging slightly than tapping and swiping. Clicking is the equal of tapping, and clicking and dragging is the equal of swiping.
There are some keyboard shortcuts that may assist.
- Cmd + 1 takes you to the homescreen.
- Cmd + 2 takes you to the app switcher.
- Cmd + 3 launches Spotlight search (you can too swipe up from the underside of any homescreen to get to Spotlight).
Open the View menu on the menu bar on the prime to vary the scale of the mirrored iPhone show: you may select from Large, Actual Size, and Smaller.
You may also drag and drop objects out of your iPhone to your Mac and vice versa. For instance, strive opening the Photos app in your mirrored iPhone, then drag a picture out to the macOS desktop — or drag a picture from Safari on the desktop to Mail on cellular.
You’ve obtained choices with regards to how iPhone notifications are managed throughout mirroring. By default, iPhone notifications flip into Mac notifications and present up within the top-right nook of the macOS interface — and clearing notifications in your Mac additionally clears them in your iPhone. You can change this:
- On macOS, open the Apple menu then System Settings.
- Choose Notifications.
- Select Allow notifications from iPhone.
- Use the Allow notifications from iPhone and Play sounds for notifications from iPhone toggle switches to vary how alerts are dealt with.
- There are additionally toggle switches for particular person apps on the identical display screen, so you may enable notifications from sure apps (resembling WhatsApp) however not others (resembling Uber).
To management future connections:
- Open the iPhone Mirroring menu on the prime of the display screen on macOS with the iPhone show lively, then select Settings.
- The subsequent dialog field allows you to robotically join these gadgets sooner or later or ask for authentication every time.
- You may also break the connection by clicking Revoke Access, which suggests it’ll should be established once more from the beginning sooner or later.
To cease iPhone mirroring, both shut down the iPhone Mirroring app (through the purple shut button within the top-left nook or the iPhone Mirroring menu) or unlock your iPhone.
