How to mirror your iPhone screen on macOS

Apple continues to make it easier to use your iPhone with your Mac with Continuity. Introduced with macOS Ventura, Continuity allows you to use your iPhone As a webcam for your Mac. It also provides a universal wallet across devices, call and text sync, Live streaming via AirPlay -And now, the ability to mirror your iPhone’s screen to the screen that came with your Mac.

If you have an iPhone running iOS 18 or later and a Mac with Apple silicon or a T2 security chip running macOS Sequoia 15 or later, you can use iPhone mirroring. It’s exactly what it sounds like: an instant copy of your mobile screen on your computer screen, which you can also interact with. Mirroring means you can check apps and messages while leaving your phone in your pocket or drawer — and of course, you have the advantage of keyboard and mouse (or trackpad) control, too.

Here’s how to set it up. I tried it on an iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 18.2.1 and an M1 MacBook Pro running macOS Sequoia 15.2.

Besides the software requirements we’ve already mentioned (iOS 18 and macOS 15), there are some additional tests that need to be done to make this work. Both your iPhone and Mac need to be signed in to the same Apple account, and the account needs to have two-factor authentication enabled.

Both devices need to have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on, and your iPhone must be locked and close to your Mac. It doesn’t matter if either device is charging, the feature works regardless of whether your iPhone is charging or not In standby mode. Your Mac shouldn’t share its Internet connection using Sidecar or AirPlay.

Meet all of these fairly obvious conditions, and iPhone mirroring is ready to go.

• Find the iPhone Mirroring button in your macOS dock, which looks like a mini iPhone. Click this, and the connection should be established — although the first time you use mirroring on iPhone, you’ll be asked to authenticate the connection via Face ID, Touch ID, or your iPhone PIN.
• Move the cursor on your Mac just above the mirrored iPhone screen to get a border. You can click and drag these borders to change the position of your iPhone screen.

• In the upper right corner, there are icons for returning to the home screen (grid of squares) and switching apps (series of rectangles), where recent apps can be found.
• Anything you do on your Mac will apply the action to your iPhone, so you can open apps, browse the web, change iOS settings, reply to messages, and anything else. Any audio played on your iPhone will be routed through your Mac’s speakers.

You may find that it takes some time to get used to operating your iPhone with a trackpad (or mouse) and keyboard—all based on clicking and dragging rather than tapping and swiping. Tapping is the equivalent of clicking, and clicking and dragging is the equivalent of swiping.

There are some keyboard shortcuts that can help you.

• Cmd + 1 It takes you to the home screen.
• Cmd + 2 It takes you to the application switcher.
• Cmd + 3 Launches Spotlight search (you can also swipe up from the bottom of any home screen to access Spotlight).

Open view The menu in the menu bar at the top to resize the mirrored iPhone screen: You can choose from big, Actual sizeand smaller.

You can also drag and drop items from your iPhone to your Mac and vice versa. For example, try opening the Photos app on a mirrored iPhone, then dragging a photo to the macOS desktop — or dragging a photo from Safari on desktop to Mail on mobile.

You have options when it comes to how you manage iPhone notifications during mirroring. By default, iPhone notifications become Mac notifications and appear in the top-right corner of the macOS interface — clearing notifications on your Mac also clears them on your iPhone. You can change this:

• On macOS, open a file apple List then System settings.
• He chooses Notifications.
• He chooses Allow notifications from iPhone.
• use Allow notifications from iPhone and Play sounds for notifications from iPhone Toggle switches to change how alerts are handled.
• There are also toggles for individual apps on the same screen, so you can allow notifications from certain apps (like WhatsApp) but not from others (like Uber).

To control future communications:

• Open iPhone mirroring Menu at the top of the screen in macOS with iPhone Display active, then choose Settings.
• The following dialog box allows you to automatically connect these devices in the future or require authentication each time.
• You can also disconnect by clicking Revoke accesswhich means that it will need to be created again from scratch in the future.

To stop iPhone mirroring, either close the iPhone Mirroring app (via the red close button in the top-left corner or the iPhone Mirroring menu) or unlock your iPhone.