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1. Use ipad as display for mac mini update#
2. Use ipad as display for mac mini pro#
3. Use ipad as display for mac mini mac#
4. Use ipad as display for mac mini windows#

Use ipad as display for mac mini windows#

Available now, Windows version coming soon.

Use ipad as display for mac mini mac#

Plus, if you have you Mac laptop with you, you probably have the iPad too, and you don't even have to pack a cable. You wouldn't want to use this for anything motion-intensive, but as a place to keep your Twitter and IM clients, or even as an extra screen for something like Photoshop Lightroom, it is ideal. If you quit the app to do something else, the Mac resets back to a single screen, but if you get push-notifications they pop up on the iPad as normal, and you can tap to dismiss as normal. Touching is a little freaky, as multi-touch gestures don't work.

Use ipad as display for mac mini pro#

The touch screen works, although you can mouse into the space as well. I explored the option to supplement the iPad Pro (Gen 3, 12.9') with a MacMini as a desktop setup with the iPad as the primary display for the MacMini. Better, in fact, as the iPad has a pretty high-resolution screen. Once it is settled, though, after a second or so, the image is as clear as you'd expect. This featured, called Sidecar, extends your desktop. Watching videos on the iPad screen is choppy, and if you drag a window across it then there is a delay and the image pixellates somewhat. Apple added the option to use an iPad as a virtual display starting in macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Use ipad as display for mac mini update#

Update October 7th, 8:25PM ET: Clarified that Sidecar also works on desktop Macs, and added the list of desktop Macs that support Sidecar.Because this works over the air (both machines need to be on the same Wi-Fi network), there is some lag. And no matter which you use, it will need to be running iPadOS 13. Apple says all iPad Pros are supported, as well as the 6th gen or newer iPad, 5th gen iPad mini, and the 3rd gen iPad Air. You’ll also need a relatively new iPad to use Sidecar, too, and it will have to support Apple Pencil. We don’t know for sure that’s the case, but it does seem quite plausible.Īpple says Sidecar also works on desktop Macs with Skylake chipsets or newer, including: You’ll see a sidebar on the right and a virtual Touch Bar on the bottom (even if your Mac doesn’t support Touch Bar). The Sidecar UI on the iPad is quite simple. Then click on Mirror Built-in Retina Display. As noted by an astute AppleInsider forums user, Skylake adds support for the HEVC video codec, which suggests the mirroring feature could rely on the codec to share what’s on your Mac’s display with your iPad. Sidecar in macOS Catalina turns your iPad into a second display with just a few clicks, but its limited to certain Macs and iPads. To do this, click on the Sidecar button from the menu bar after the iPad is connected.

It’s disappointing to see that Sidecar doesn’t work on any older laptops without the company’s perpetually troubled butterfly keyboard, which has gone through three iterations and is now covered under an extended warranty program Apple launched last year specifically to address the issue for certain models.īut the limited number of supported Macs for Sidecar may in fact be due to chipsets, as Apple’s white paper says the feature requires Intel’s Skylake or newer CPUs. Here’s how Luna Display describes it in use: When you launch Luna, you’re running your macOS on your. MacBook Pros from 2016 or later (Apple switched to butterfly keys in the Pros in 2016) This setup makes use of the Luna app on iPad to use it as a primary display for a Mac mini.MacBook Airs from 2018 or later (Apple’s recent redesign of the MacBook Air).