iPhone mirroring is here with Sequoia and iOS 18. I am not the only one who thought this would be fun to try but probably not useful. However, I keep finding handy uses for it. So what do you or would you use this feature for?
I like having access to my iPhone from my Macbook Air generally, but in particular during wireless charging. Picking the phone up would stop the charge. Now I don’t have to do that.
Weirdly, I use it instead of iCloud tabs for picking up something I was doing in Safari on my phone when I get back to my laptop 
Generally though, I mostly use it for chat apps that only have a web interface on desktop or nothing on desktop.
My employer uses Duo for MFA and being able to approve logins right on my Mac in the notification instead of digging out my phone (which I keep in a sleeve) is really convenient.
It’s handy.
This has been my favorite use, too!, especially when DUO wants me to enter a code!
Also, I almost don’t need any notifications on my Mac because all my iPhone notifications come across on my Mac. Love that.
My company has a mobile app that I have installed on my iPhone. I like being able to check on work items while using my personal MacBook and leaving the iPhone on the charger in the other room. I can actually login to a website to check these things too, but it is actually easier to do a quick check on the mobile app.
For me:
I actually face reliability issues with it. It sometimes doesn’t connect and I have to fallback to phone, so I just use the phone for now 
In another thread a user toggled usb off and on and that solved their issue:
https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/iphone-mirroring-on-sequoia/38397
Just discovered I can’t use iPhone mirroring if using Sidecar too.
I wonder if it will be like copying and pasting between iOS and Mac. Mostly it works but too often it doesn’t.
This is such a sad reality of handoff or continuity. It works remarkably well when it works. But sometimes it just doesn’t.
For my money, I would love if Apple would devote the time to making all these great types of features work reliably. I don’t want to have to wonder if a feature is going to work today or not. (No, I don’t hold Apple responsible for failures based on connectivity issues outside of its control. But often the failings seemingly have nothing to do with network connectivity.)
For all of Apple’s supposed focus on polish and refinement, it’s strange how often they fail to polish and fix longstanding features and issues.
Why wasn’t Keep Downloaded added to iCloud years ago, given the recurrent issues reported over and over and over again by users, and where’s versioning? (You’d think versioning would be even more of a priority, since they still don’t have an offsite backup solution.)
Why isn’t it easier to set and maintain your own default window size in Finder? Why doesn’t AirDrop always work when I’m right next to the recipient and we’ve both double-checked our settings?
"Also, I almost don’t need any notifications on my Mac because all my iPhone notifications come across on my Mac. Love that.
yes but waiting for them to update software so that clearing the phone notifications on your Mac also clears the notifications on your phone, and vice versa.
Those mirroring on work computers might’ve accidentally told IT about your naughty Obsidian and LlamaLife habits. Fix incoming.
When Sevco saw personal iOS applications reported as installed on Mac devices, we assumed it was a narrow, one-off bug in our processing or an upstream customer inventory provider. As we dug in, we recognized it was not a glitch – personal iOS apps were indeed being reported on Mac devices from multiple upstream software vendors at multiple customers. This issue was something new and systemic.
- Wednesday, Sept 30 – provided Apple additional technical details on scope. Apple confirmed they reproduced the issue.
- Thursday, Oct 3 – Apple confirmed intent to address the issue in an update coming soon.
Another use I find helpful: documenting iPhone apps and taking notes from them. Easier than doing it all on the phone.
And perhaps I’m just dumb, but I find the latest interface to annotate screenshots on the iPhone is a nightmare. No: Apple does not make intuitive interfaces these days.