It’s go time for iOS 18, macOS 15, and all their pals! Your app updates that you simply slaved over all through the summer season are in all probability already pending launch and all of it kicks off on Monday!
I have been operating the betas lately, and the iPhone Mirroring function confuses me. It really works nicely when my telephone is shut by, however I by chance left it downstairs within the kitchen a couple of days in the past and tried to make use of mirroring for an actual job for the primary time. Sadly, it failed to attach as a result of my telephone was too distant. 🫤
Now, earlier than you begin considering I reside in a mansion and I used to be making an attempt to attach between my workplace the east wing to my kitchen within the west wing, I want I did! my kitchen is on the backside of the steps and my workplace is on the high. Perhaps 6 metres away. I’ve not discovered anybody else complaining about vary, however each demo I’ve seen, even Apple’s has the telephone sitting proper subsequent to the Mac.
So, I’ve been enthusiastic about why this function exists.
It’s a part of the Continuity set of options, which have (at the very least for me) been an amazing success. It’s attainable a few of them have been a bit of flaky at first, however they’re rock stable now and I couldn’t reside with out seamless copy and paste between my telephone and my Mac. ❤️
The second half of the iPhone Mirroring demo was all about utilizing it for drag and drop between gadgets. A function that feels rather more part of the Continuity set of options. I ponder if that’s the true goal of what Apple constructed, and all the opposite components of it are simply what it took to make that work? Definitely if my telephone is sitting immediately subsequent to me, I’d slightly decide it up than use it with my mouse in a window on my Mac.
I do want it will work from my kitchen for these occasional instances I by chance depart my telephone downstairs. That mentioned, a couple of extra flights of stairs daily will do me extra good than hurt!
Dave Verwer 
