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Three Ways macOS 27 Improves iPhone Mirroring

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In macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple has brought some meaningful updates to iPhone Mirroring besides a new app icon. Here's what's new.

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macOS 27 is currently in developer beta, with a public beta coming next month and a general release expected in the fall.

Window Resizing

In macOS Tahoe, iPhone Mirroring is constrained to the iPhone's native aspect ratio, so window resizing is limited to the device's fixed proportions. Smaller, Actual Size, and Larger are the only options. By contrast, macOS 27 introduces support for multiple aspect ratios. Depending on the chosen aspect ratio, iPhone Mirroring displays either a modified iPhone interface or an app's available iPad layout. Adjustments are limited to iOS 27-compatible apps for now, but expect this to change when developers update their own apps. The change has also stoked speculation about a rumored foldable iPhone coming in September.

Control Center Access

In macOS 27, you can now access your iPhone's Control Center directly from your Mac using the Command-4 keyboard shortcut or via the View menu in the menu bar. Previously, iPhone Mirroring didn't support Control Center access at all.

DRM Support

macOS 27 also adds support for DRM-protected video playback in iPhone Mirroring. In macOS Tahoe, attempting to watch protected content, such as videos from streaming services or rented movies, results in a black screen on your Mac. With the next major update, however, you can view DRM-enabled content directly through the mirrored iPhone window.

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dannys1 Avatar
dannys1
2 weeks ago
How about letting me access it when it's in another room and not requiring it to be within a foot of my computer? How about not constantly needing me to type the code on the iPhone if I haven't used it for a little bit?

If I’m on my Wi-Fi and I’m using TouchID to connect, it's quite clearly me and should make it easy to do - I want to be able to access my phone to check something because it's in the other room - if it's right next to me, I might as well pick it up.

Barely used this feature because of these arbitrary limitations.
Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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SvenLorenz1975
2 weeks ago
What's iPhone mirroring? (he asks in EU).
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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pbau
2 weeks ago
We need this in EU.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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dannys1
2 weeks ago

having it in another room and not right by you isn’t how it works.
We know and that's why we're saying it's a pointless feature. If it's right by me I just use my phone - the times i've needed this is because i've left it in another room.


There's no technical reason it needs to be right near me if it is on my own wifi network - just let us designate what is our home wifi and let it be a trusted location/device.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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MNWildFan
2 weeks ago

How about letting me access it when it's in another room and not requiring it to be within a foot of my computer? How about not constantly needing me to type the code on the iPhone if I haven't used it for a little bit?

If I’m on my Wi-Fi and I’m using TouchID to connect, it's quite clearly me and should make it easy to do - I want to be able to access my phone to check something because it's in the other room - if it's right next to me, I might as well pick it up.

Barely used this feature because of these arbitrary limitations.
Yeah, that bit is soooo annoying

I swear, every day when I first use iPhone mirroring, it asks me for my passcode and I'm like "Ok, I've been using my iPhone throughout the day, why do you need my passcode if this is the case???"

I do agree, it kind of defeats the purpose of it if half the time it asks you for your passcode when the whole idea of it is to have it in another room and not need to have it right by you
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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triumvirate
2 weeks ago

How about letting me access it when it's in another room and not requiring it to be within a foot of my computer? How about not constantly needing me to type the code on the iPhone if I haven't used it for a little bit?

If I’m on my Wi-Fi and I’m using TouchID to connect, it's quite clearly me and should make it easy to do - I want to be able to access my phone to check something because it's in the other room - if it's right next to me, I might as well pick it up.

Barely used this feature because of these arbitrary limitations.
This is beyond annoying. It doesn’t seem so much a service to let you use your phone if you forgot it in the kitchen, but rather to let you avoid constantly picking up the phone that’s sitting beside you (but it keeps asking the passcode thing anyway, so really defeats its own already very limited purpose).

I don’t get it at all.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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