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I can add something to the list which is Sidecar i.e. using an iPad as secondary screen. It was a real nightmare to set it up as it’d not detect the iPad despit
by outime 7y ago
I can add something to the list which is Sidecar i.e. using an iPad as secondary screen. It was a real nightmare to set it up as it’d not detect the iPad despite meeting all the requirements. I found no fixes online so I had the idea of logout & login again (iCloud) so that it might detect it.
Well, it detected I had an iPad but the connection would time out every single time. After rebooting both the Mac and the iPad (another wild guess) it kind of worked - very laggy and couldn’t use the Mac properly as clicking in e.g. System Preferences would open Finder to show me the app under Applications instead of the actual system preferences panel because of reasons.
It’s truly broken and felt like an alpha version. But this has been the trend with macOS and guess it’ll stay like this unless someone high enough at Apple decides to wake up.
- pram 7y agoNot helpful but I had the opposite experience. Sidecar Just Worked with my MBP and 2016 iPad Pro, and drawing on it was extremely smooth. A better experience than Astropad so far, personally. Did you try connecting to it with a cable?
- scotchio 7y agoWish your experience was better than this. For me, sidecar is total game changer and the best!
- CrazyStat 7y agoSame, it worked perfectly first try for me.
- multibit 7y agoSideCar was the reason I was excited for Catalina. But alas, the feature is not supported on 2015 Retina Macbook Pros, only the newer ones with the horrible keyboard, pointless touchbar, only one kind of port, etc.
- kendallpark 7y agoI'm in the same boat. Installed the betas on both iPad and MBP about a month ago. Turns out my 2015 pre-horrible-keyboard MBP is too old. And none of the published hacks around the restriction work nowadays.
- dharma1 7y agoHad the same issue initially. Called Apple support who debugged it via remote desktop. Turns out Sidecar uses iCloud for handshake between the two devices (god knows why), and for some reason requires 2FA on iCloud to be turned on for both the iPad and the laptop, on each device. I didn't have iCloud 2FA setup completed on the laptop, so it didn't work until that was resolved.