Seems strange it's specific to iPhone when iPad runs the same OS more or less.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Why doesn't mirroring support iPad?
- Thread starter Corefile
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Don't know what search program you are using but Google can answer your how to question. "How to mirror iPad to MAC"
There is a difference between one-way mirroring (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102661) and mirroring where you can interact with the iPhone. Perhaps is a matter of knowing how to interpret the search results.
Last edited:
but you can use e.g. the trackpad on your Macbook and control the iPad - it’s called »Universal Control«.
Aaaaand, if wanted, I can easily use the pencil on iPad to annotate, draw, whatever in Mac apps - that’s »Sidecar« in Apple parlour.
What exactly is missing?
These are workarounds rather than direct implementation. For one, you can't trigger sidecar or universal control while locked and frustratingly can't use common precision input methods with sidecar. They're not identical.
🥹🤣 well, they implement direct interaction with an iPad. That’s what this thread is about, isn’t it?😁
You can’t trigger iPhone mirroring from an unlocked iPhone. - in any case: so what?
nobody expressed that. I merely tried to point out what functionality is already implemented for Mac <-> iPad.
But you write about »side car« and »common precision input methods« - are you referring to the pointer shape change in »universal control« when moving the macOS pointer to iPadOS? Because otherwise using e.g. a pencil in side car to markup or draw can’t be qualified as “unprecise input”, or can it? 🙃
Obviously more options are great, and there are probably a lot of people who would like to run iOS/iPadOS e.g. in full screen on a Mac - which at least in the current version 1.0 (1) of the Sonoma mirroring app you can’t anyway.
OP is referring to iPhone mirroring. They’re not the same. Just because they share a function doesn’t mean they’re identical. It isn’t clever to point features out and treat them as the same as the features Apple recently announced.
And no, you are wrong. The pencil is a form of precision input method. Also your statement about iPhone mirroring can’t be triggered while “unlocked” is unrelated to what I said.
You are the one that expressed confusion and couldn’t tell the difference between iPhone mirroring, Sidecar, and universal control.
no. he wants iPad mirroring. as per thread title. The rest is obvious or trivial. 😃
It's a different feature which enables different functionality....way to be condescending when you're the one actually getting it wrong.
Phone is smaller and slimmer, an iPad mirrored on on a desktop OS would need to be pretty big in order to be useful. I barely see the need for a phone to be mirrored on a computer, I see even less reasons why an iPad would need to be mirrored as well.