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I recently got an iPad, and I've been a bit disappointed by sidecar. First of all, it doesn't support the portrait orientation, which doesn't seem like it shou
by skohan 5y ago
I recently got an iPad, and I've been a bit disappointed by sidecar. First of all, it doesn't support the portrait orientation, which doesn't seem like it should be complicated.
Also it's a bit finicky. For instance if you are using sidecar and the system goes to sleep, waking the laptop will not wake the ipad, and if things are asleep to long you get an unclear error message and have to restart sidecar from a system menu a couple levels deep.
It's an awesome feature, and using an iPad as a second monitor makes for a really awesome lightweight setup for mobile working, but I wish they would invest a bit more in the UX. It's already 80% there, and most of the fixes required don't seem super complicated.
- makeitdouble 5y ago> It's already 80% there, and most of the fixes required don't seem super complicated. I hope they make it evolve further, but it’s the story of Apple features. For the remaining 20% there are less seamless but more evolved third party apps (I personally use Duet, which is not without faults but has portrait support and more)
- skohan 5y agoIs it as smooth and low-latency as sidecar?
- makeitdouble 5y agoI don’t use sidecar but I'd wager it's not as smooth nor optimized. I use it with an older iPad so newer version might be better at it, but I see some artifacts on scrolling sometime, and it's clearly using the iPad's resources at full. There are params like resolution and processing that can be adjusted to priotitize what you care about (e.g. I go with retina res and more latency/lower processing). I think sidecar will be better at the thing it does, I use duet mainly for the fexibility.
- Jcowell 5y agoMy iPad always wakes up if previously connected to sidecar, even wirelessly.
- skohan 5y agoThis works for me if it has been asleep for a few seconds, but if I leave for a few minutes I have to reconnect
- kergonath 5y agoI agree, it lacks some polish. I am a bit disappointed that they did not mention it, but I hope it is getting some love for the next update.