It’s go time for iOS 18, macOS 15, and all their associates! Your app updates that you just slaved over all through the summer season are most likely already pending launch and all of it kicks off on Monday!
I have been working the betas just lately, and the iPhone Mirroring function confuses me. It really works nicely when my cellphone is shut by, however I by accident 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 cellphone was too distant. 🫤
Now, earlier than you begin pondering I stay 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 prime. Perhaps 6 metres away. I’ve not discovered anybody else complaining about vary, however each demo I’ve seen, even Apple’s has the cellphone sitting proper subsequent to the Mac.
So, I’ve been fascinated about why this function exists.
It’s a part of the Continuity set of options, which have (no less than for me) been an amazing success. It’s attainable a few of them had been a bit flaky at first, however they’re rock strong now and I couldn’t stay with out seamless copy and paste between my cellphone and my Mac. ❤️
The second half of the iPhone Mirroring demo was all about utilizing it for drag and drop between units. A function that feels far more part of the Continuity set of options. I ponder if that’s the true goal of what Apple constructed, and all the opposite elements of it are simply what it took to make that work? Definitely if my cellphone is sitting instantly subsequent to me, I’d fairly choose it up than use it with my mouse in a window on my Mac.
I do want it could work from my kitchen for these occasional occasions I by accident go away my cellphone downstairs. That stated, a couple of extra flights of stairs each day will do me extra good than hurt!
Dave Verwer 
