On my M1 MacBook Air, I recently set up iPhone Mirroring with my new iPhone 17. My Mac (I know, I need to update) is running Sequoia 15.4.1, obviously predating the 17s. So I expected iPhone Mirroring to either throw up an error or be really glitched - but it isn't. It works perfectly. Except for one thing: the device's icon.
Because the system has no icon for the iPhone 17, it defaults. This in itself is not strange. What is strange is what it defaults to:
After searching through system files, I've found that this is the system icon of the black iPhone 4 (which is still in macOS, along with every other iPhone ever.)
I thought I'd share this because I thought it was really funny that this is what I get for buying a brand new phone. The 4 is about a decade before the earliest iPhone to support mirroring.
It's worth noting that this also shows up in the "Pasting from your iPhone" loading menu.
Because the system has no icon for the iPhone 17, it defaults. This in itself is not strange. What is strange is what it defaults to:
After searching through system files, I've found that this is the system icon of the black iPhone 4 (which is still in macOS, along with every other iPhone ever.)
I thought I'd share this because I thought it was really funny that this is what I get for buying a brand new phone. The 4 is about a decade before the earliest iPhone to support mirroring.
It's worth noting that this also shows up in the "Pasting from your iPhone" loading menu.
