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iPhone on your Mac is the BEST! ❤️❤️
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I'm just glad that I can organize my iPhone desktops on a larger screen using more natural movements (eg, computer mouse) than playing point-squiggle-drag-pray with my finger.
What do you do with it? I played with it for about 10 mins before I got bored and moved on, and couldn't think of any reason to use it.
Couple things:
- Running apps that are only available on iPhone. I can leave my phone in my pocket and interact with it on my Mac. I have a triple-display setup, so my phone just sits in the corner of one of the displays. I'm sure it also helps with the battery life as well since it doesn't have to light up the screen.
- Notifications get pushed to the Mac too, even if you aren't mirroring. Where I work, we deal with a lot of 2FA/MFA stuff when logging into things. I no longer have to reach for my phone to approve them. I can do it right from the notification that appears on my Mac and approve it there.
Upgraded immediately to iOS 18 and Sequoia for this feature alone. Love it! Will be using it daily. Even just being able to use a full keyboard to respond to DMs in IG has been terrific. And cleaning up photos etc as one previous poster said. So nice. Grateful for this feature!
That’s awesome! I’ve missed that feature since they yanked synching apps from iTunes.
My phone refused to connect to my MacBook when it was only about 5m away in the next room. I expected it to be a bit better than that. It's a novelty at the moment but I'm not sure how useful I'm actually going to find it.
Is there a way to multi-select apps when in jiggly mode...so that we can move/rearrange multiple apps at once like we can do with our fingers? That's the only thing I miss, and looks like it's not possible unless I'm not using the right keys. Or maybe a better question would be: can we emulate multi-touch somehow?
Guessing they didn't do this for the iPad because we already have Universal Control; which is essentially the same thing, but uses its own display. With the iPhone, it's small and can sit in the corner of your screen while you have other apps open. The iPad is larger and would take up your whole screen. Might as well just use Universal Control at that point. If you're wanting to mirror the iPad's screen on your Mac so you can show it in video calls/meetings, that can be done through QuickTime.
I was very skeptical about this feature when it was announced. I didn't put my Mac on the beta until mid-August, so I could only react to what I read in forums like this. But once I installed the Mac beta and saw it in action, I could see the appeal. My phone is on a charger in Nightstand mode, which I love. I'm getting phone notifications where I'm working (and can stifle those by using the Reduce Interruptions focus mode if I need to).
Is this the greatest thing ever? No.
Is it one more little thing Apple does to improve the quality of its offerings? Absolutely.
Is this the greatest thing ever? No.
Is it one more little thing Apple does to improve the quality of its offerings? Absolutely.
I didn't try to multiselect. I was just glad to be able to use a big screen and mouse to configure things instead of my finger.