iOS 8 Introduces Peer-to-Peer AirPlay Playback, Easy iOS to Mac Screen Capture

[odedia]

They should really add the ability to AirPlay from your iOS device to you Mac.

 

[Snowy_River]

Use an app like AirServer for OS X.

Thank you. I've been keeping my eye out for such an app, but it missed this one. I had the old clunky AirPlay receiver app that came out when the technology was first added to iOS, but it stopped working a while ago.

They should really add the ability to AirPlay from your iOS device to you Mac.

This is what I'd really like to see. AirPlay should natively support streaming in any direction between any Apple devices.

Imagine, I'm watching a movie with my family, and I offer to go get dessert for everyone. Either the movie has to be paused, or I have to miss some of it. But, is I could mirror the big screen on my iPad, I could take the movie with me...

 

[richwoodrocket]

Thank you. I've been keeping my eye out for such an app, but it missed this one. I had the old clunky AirPlay receiver app that came out when the technology was first added to iOS, but it stopped working a while ago.







This is what I'd really like to see. AirPlay should natively support streaming in any direction between any Apple devices.



Imagine, I'm watching a movie with my family, and I offer to go get dessert for everyone. Either the movie has to be paused, or I have to miss some of it. But, is I could mirror the big screen on my iPad, I could take the movie with me...

Um, you can't be away from your iPad for 30 seconds?

 

[Snowy_River]

Um, you can't be away from your iPad for 30 seconds?

Yes, way to be judge mental.

When I'm getting dessert ready, and it takes 15minutes (not 30 seconds), my young children often either get quite bored, asking to please have the movie started again, or they start into other tasks, such that when dessert arrives they have lost interest in the movie. The result is that it is often easier to just leave the movie playing, meaning that I miss a substantial chunk of the movie.

So, forgive me for making nice and often relatively healty desserts for my family instead of simple handing them sugar water Popsicles, which is about all I could imagine managing that would only take 30 seconds.

 

[gmanist1000]

Will macs running Yosemite be able to screen share directly too? I presume this would solve a lot of stuttering issues. It would also make it quick and easy for presentations and possibly even make video via airplay screen sharing possible.

This would be amazing, especially where I work... we need to show our Mac screen without the WiFi bottleneck.

 

[BJMRamage]

Anyone see if they can do this with iOS8 device and the newly updated Apple TV software?

using my home WiFi (Xfinity) is a SLOW bottleneck maybe in part due to old iPhone.

new iP6 coming on Friday.