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Richard Priday

I love iOS 18's iPhone Mirroring feature — but I've found one big problem

An iPhone 16 Pro Max being mirrored to a MacBook Pro.

iPhone Mirroring is one of the best additions to iOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia, adding a whole new level of integration between your iPhone and your Mac. It's the feature I've used the most of all the new additions (much more so than Apple Intelligence), but I've come across a quirk of the mirroring system that makes it much less useful than I thought.

You see, you cannot simultaneously use iPhone Mirroring and your iPhone's internet hotspot feature. If you try to enable hotspot while mirroring, or vice versa, you get a pop-up telling you that you need both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled in order to use iPhone Mirroring. And that feels like a huge limitation in the software

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