iPhone Mirroring on Sequoia

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I turned on iPhone mirroring in Sequoia yesterday. It’s a cool feature, though initially I thought it wouldn’t be very useful. Seems like a “because we can” feature.

Later, I experimented with setting the mirrored iPhone on 1/4 of the screen next to the window I’m working in. It’s interesting to be able to lookup something on a phone app while browsing in Safari on the Mac, for example. But, the feature also amps up the distraction level by an order of magnitude, so I don’t plant to do this when I’m doing work that requires any amount of focus.

Katie

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I’m going to wait until I install both iOS 18 and Sequoia before playing with this but my first reaction is “I wish they would port iPhone-only apps to macOS”. The one that I really want on all my devices is the Health app so I can analyse the data without having to dump it out on my iPhone to either iCLoud or Dropbox, and then import it into something on my Mac for analyse. (That “something else” at the moment being a noddy python script using Pandas.)

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I love the feature and use it a lot. I’ve almost been able to disable all my Mac notifications because I can have my iPhone do the heavy lifting.

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It want connect and times out.
Also tried using USB C cable directly connected to the MB Air.

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I’ve noticed iPhone Mirroring has become unreliable with Sequoia 15.1 (beta).

Katie

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I got it working.
Toggling BleuTooth off/on did not do the trick.

I am using NextDNS on our network.
When I set both my Mac and the iPhone manually on a regular DNS server (in my case Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 + 1.0.0.1) they connected right away. When I put things back to my regular network settings to the automatic DNS settings provided by the router which obtains DNS over htpps from NextDNS it all kept working fine.

Tip:
You have to close the iPhone to control it form your Mac.

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I could not wait to try this for the novelty. A friend thought it would be useless, but we keep on finding uses for it.

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