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Richard Priday

iPhone Mirroring is my favorite WWDC announcement — here’s why

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MacOS Sequoia iPhone Mirroring drag and drop.

As WWDC 2024 week is behind us, and we all continue to digest Apple's raft of announcements, it's macOS Sequoia's iPhone Mirroring feature that I keep thinking about. Even in an event that brought us things like huge new customization options to iOS 18 and impressive handwritten math equation solving in iPadOS 18, it's the iPhone/Mac collaboration that stands out to me.

I already enjoy using SideCar to turn my iPad into a small second monitor when I'm set up to work in a hotel room or my parents' house, so having a similar ability on my iPhone is appealing too. While iPhone Mirroring doesn't expand my workspace directly as an extra display, it would expand it in other ways.

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