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Yeah, it's clever to be able to control an iPad from a Mac. But it's real utility is controlling multiple Macs. I have a personal and a company laptop, and I us
by teilo 5y ago
Yeah, it's clever to be able to control an iPad from a Mac. But it's real utility is controlling multiple Macs. I have a personal and a company laptop, and I use both all the time. This just made things much easier (and yes, I know about Synergy, but just never bothered to try it).
But it does not "just work" by any stretch. I ran into the same typical crap that I see with Handoff and Airdrop. It "just works" until it inexplicably stops working, for no apparent reason, and nothing but a reboot fixes it. Even getting my two Macs to see each other was a PITA (a 16" M1 Max, and a 14" M1 Pro). I thought at first it was because one was hardwired (but also on the local wifi), but no. Disabling ethernet made no difference. Multiple reboots, no dice. Later on, 10 minutes after deciding to give up, it just decided to start working, a fact which I only discovered because I lost control of my mouse on one machine, not realizing I had moved it to the other.
Now that they "know" one another, we'll see if it works more consistently now.
- dkobia 5y agoHave the exact same setup, 16" M1 Max, and a 14" M1 Pro and handoff issues can get annoying. Sometimes the issue is caused by switching the initializing screen push from one computer to the other. In essence changing the master, which decides who’s peripherals will be shared. This definitely feels “beta” as they’ve labeled it. A lot of progress but beta and I tip my hat to the team working on it.
- cyberpunk 5y agoExact same experience here.... (M1 Air (personal) and 14" pro (intel) work).. Driving me fucking insane. I've gone back to just having two keyboards and trackpads on my desk.
- gumby 5y agoEvery time I find handoff or shared clipboard not working it’s been because my devices are on different Wi-Fi networks. For me that has been when SSIDs foo and foo-5 are both available (home, vacation house, work), so I’d tell my Mac (which tells my other devices) to try both. Once I stopped doing this these features became rock solid. Note that editing your WiFi list (removing obsolete ones and ordering the search list) will speed up connecting to WiFi on all your devices. PS: typing w, i, f, and i on my ipad resulted in the two different expansions above!
- teilo 5y agoThat's nice, but I've had shared clipboard break numerous times, and all devices were on the same SSID. It hasn't happened recently, which to me says that the past failures were caused by bugs in Apple's implementation. But I just had Airdrop fail last night transferring files to my wife's phone. It just suddenly stops transferring, and claims the device is out of space. It had 64GB free, and 1.5TB free on iCloud. Restarted the phone, and it started working again. Fail, Apple.