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Apple continues to make it easier to use your iPhone with your Mac using the Continuity feature. Introduced with macOS Ventura, Continuity lets you use your iPhone as a webcam for your Mac. It also offers a universal clipboard across devices, call and text syncing, AirPlay streaming — and now, the ability to mirror your iPhone’s display on the screen attached to your Mac.
If you’ve got an iPhone running iOS 18 or later and a Mac with Apple silicon or the T2 security chip running macOS Sequoia 15 or later, then you can use iPhone mirroring. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a real-time copy of your mobile display on your computer display, 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 a M1 MacBook Pro running macOS Sequoia 15.2.
Getting started with iPhone mirroring
Besides the software requirements we’ve already mentioned (iOS 18 and macOS 15), there are a few more checks to carry out to make this work. Both the iPhone and…
