Phone Mirroring on the Mac Might Change How You Use Your Phone
It’s your phone. On your Mac. That’s really the whole thing.
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One of the surprise hits of Apple’s WWDC 2024 was a new feature for desktops and laptops. In Sequoia, the new operating system due this fall and now in public beta, you can mirror your phone to your Mac.
I’ve been testing the new feature for a bit, and it really is what it sounds like. You open up the phone mirroring app, and it presents you to… your iPhone. Rounded corners and everything. You click on the bottom bar to go home and click and drag to go between apps, click with your mouse, and type with your keyboard. The only chrome in the app appears when you hover your mouse up at the top; there’s a button for going home and a button for opening the app switcher. You can’t even resize the window, which is currently way too small on my…
source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24194370/ios-18-iphone-mirroring-mac-sequoia-preview
