Majin Bu, who has a blended historical past with leaks, wrote final week that unnamed sources had mentioned iPhones with USB-C will supply “a Stage Manager like interface” when related to an exterior show. It wouldn’t be fairly a full desktop expertise, however would “permit customers to increase their display screen house, nice for shows, enhancing, or enhanced viewing.” They added that there “could also be some limitations probably in decision or the variety of apps displayed directly.” Given Bu’s historical past, it’s exhausting to place an excessive amount of inventory in that each one by itself.
Then once more, in a brand new episode of the 9to5Mac’s video collection iOS Decoded, Jeff Benjamin says that he’s seen Stage Manager working with an iPhone and, tantalizingly, it had “full-on exterior show help.” In an article accompanying the video, he writes that 9to5Mac has been in a position to check the function utilizing the iOS Xcode Simulator. He doesn’t suppose it’s doubtless Apple will roll that out to iPhones in the actual world, however it’s notable that Apple has been sufficient within the thought to try it out.
Apple wouldn’t be the primary to do this — there have been makes an attempt that predated even Samsung’s DeX — however it’s an intriguing thought all the identical. iPhones have already got restricted exterior show help, utilizing cables or wirelessly by way of AirPlay, however that help is usually restricted to both display screen mirroring or on a per-app foundation — like casting a YouTube video to an AirPlay-enabled TV.
