You can now use Apples best iPhone Mirroring feature on your Mac and iPhone

Date:
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:28:07 +0000

Description:
Apples iPhone Mirroring feature has just enabled drag and drop in the latest iOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 betas.

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When Apple announced macOS Sequoia at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, the iPhone Mirroring feature quickly emerged as one of its most interesting new additions. This handy tool plonks a mockup of your
iPhone onto your macOS desktop, letting you interact with your phone right on your Mac. Yet one of iPhone Mirrorings best features has been totally absent
, despite macOS Sequoia just launching until now.

Thats because Apple has added the ability to drag and drop files between your Mac and your iPhone in the latest macOS Sequoia 15.1 and iOS 18.1 betas .
That makes iPhone Mirroring far more capable and helps it live up to the potential it showed at WWDC.

Instead of having to rely on a cloud-hosting service like Google Drive or Dropbox , you can now move a file from your Mac onto your iPhone, or vice versa, saving you time and effort in the process. This feature also works
when your iPhone is locked and charging, meaning it could be on the other
side of the room and still enable you to move files between your devices.

In some ways, its also a superior alternative to using Apples AirDrop
feature. While AirDrop opens the file that you share to your Apple device
once it has transferred, iPhone Mirrorings drag and drop functionality lets you move a file directly into a third-party app. Apples software chief Craig Federighi demonstrated this at WWDC by dropping a video file straight into a template in the Unfold app, showing the kind of things that are achievable with this new feature. (Image credit: Apple)

To start using iPhone Mirrorings drag and drop ability, youll need to
download iOS 18.1 beta 5 on your iPhone and macOS Sequoia 15.1 beta 5 on your Mac, which can be done by creating a free Apple account on Apples website and then opting in to the relevant betas on your devices. Note that iPhone Mirroring is only available in the developer beta for now, but it should launch in the public beta soon.

Once youve downloaded the betas, open the iPhone Mirroring app from your Macs Dock and follow the on-screen instructions to set it up. Then you will be
able to start shifting files between your devices with consummate ease. You can open an app like Photos in iPhone Mirroring on your Mac and drop a file there, or move something from your iPhones Files app onto your Macs desktop. Theres a lot of flexibility in how you use iPhone Mirroring.

Its good to see this long-awaited feature arrive in macOS, but there are
still plenty of other things that Apple announced at WWDC that have yet to make an appearance, notably many Apple Intelligence features and updates to Siri . While many of those arent expected to launch until next year , heres hoping that as with iPhone Mirroring the wait is worth it. You might also like iPhone Mirroring comes to Macs in macOS Sequoia public beta, but it's missing its best feature Apple just gave its brilliant iPhone Mirroring feature a handy upgrade in macOS Sequoia I love Apples iPhone mirroring feature so much I almost forgot Microsoft did it first though Apple has definitely done it better



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