This app is found in the Applications folder on the Mac.ģ) Select File > New Movie Recording from the QuickTime Player Menu. Initially, this should display an image from the Mac’s FaceTime camera. When you’ve responded, the iOS device will allow the Mac to mirror the iOS device screen.Ģ) Launch QuickTime Player. The simple way to do it is to use a USB to Lightning cable and the standard QuickTime Player app included with every Mac:ġ) Connect the Mac and iOS device with a USB to Lightning Cable. Note that you may need to respond to a message on the iOS device asking you to trust the computer. Perhaps your needs are quite simple you just need to mirror one iOS device onto a Mac. There are versions available for macOS, Windows, Xbox, Surface Hub, Philips TV, embedded Linux and more, so if your requirements are out of the ordinary, it’s worth looking into AirServer. It’s quite similar to Reflector in both capability and the way that it is handled on the iOS device.
In the iOS Control Center, tap on Screen Mirroring (see screenshot below):Īn iPad mini and iPhone X mirrored to an iMac with Reflector 3Īt the start of this post I mentioned that we’d also list an alternative to Reflector 3, and that alternative is the US$19.99 AirServer.
In this example, the first device is an iPhone X. You may also wish to change settings for the resolution of the devices on the screen while in the Reflector 3 preferences clicking on the Connection tab.Ģ) Connect the first device. Make sure that you know the “Broadcast Name” of your Mac or PC - this can be found under Reflector 3 > Preferences > General. Here’s an example of mirroring an iPhone X and an iPad mini 2 to a Mac:ġ) Launch Reflector 3. Squirrels provides a 7-day free trial of Reflector 3, so trying it out for future reference or seeing if it is helpful for your requirements is a no-cost proposition.įor the purposes of this demonstration, we’ll assume that you’ve downloaded and installed Reflector 3.
Reflector 3 uses an AirPlay connection to the Mac or PC so your devices don’t need to be cabled together, and it also works with Google Cast and Miracast, two “video over Wi-Fi” standards popular on Android devices. One of the easiest ways to mirror multiple iOS devices to either a Mac or Windows PC is to use Reflector 3, a US$14.99 app from Squirrels, LLC. In today’s Tech 101, we’ll demonstrate one Mac and Windows app for doing this and mention a second alternative. While Apple’s QuickTime Player offers a simple way to record the screen of one iOS device on a Mac (see the end of this article), sometimes it’s necessary to show two or more iOS devices at a time on a Mac or PC screen. When teaching other people about iOS, demonstrating usage of various iOS devices, screencasting, or podcasting, it’s often useful to be able to mirror iOS devices to a Mac or PC so that the screens of those devices can be captured or broadcast.
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