If I add my MacBook Air, I can use three devices like this: Here’s a video of Apple’s Craig Federighi demonstrating Universal Control this was first shown when the feature was announced, in June 2021. You can drag files to add to emails or messages, or, if you want to use a file on your iPad, open the Files app and drag the file to a folder there. This latter action makes sense on two Macs, where you can easily transfer files, but you can also drag files from a Mac to an iPad. You can copy and paste from one device to another, and you can also drag and drop items. (Pro tip: to switch between running apps on the iPad, press Command-Tab, and you can cycle through an application switcher, as on a Mac.) You can, of course, still use touch gestures if you want. If you’re using an iPad, the cursor shows up as a large dot, and, once you see the cursor on the device, you can use the keyboard to control it. If you’re using a second Mac with Universal Control, it’s exactly the same as using that keyboard and pointing device directly with that Mac. At that point, I can use both the cursor from my pointing device and the keyboard connected to my iMac to control that iPad and its apps. Using Universal ControlĪs you can see in the screenshot above, my iPad is to the left of my iMac to move the controls to the iPad, I just move my cursor to the left edge of my iMac’s display, and it appears on the iPad. You can also choose a device from the Add Display menu to remove it. If you want to turn off Universal Control, just disable the first option. You may want to do this if you plan to use Universal Control often with two devices. The third option tells your Mac to automatically reconnect to any nearby device when both are active. And sometimes there’s an animation on the edge of the second device, but this doesn’t always display. Sometimes, if this is enabled, and I move my cursor to the edge of my display, it stops at the edge, and I have to push a bit to get it to move to another device. It’s not clear what the second option does. When you’ve done that, the Displays preferences shows the two displays. After enabling this, click the Add Display drop-down menu at the bottom left of the Displays preference pane and choose the device you want to connect to. The first option turns on Universal Control. Click the Universal Control button at the bottom of the pane, and you see this: Start in the Displays pane of System Preferences. (Though Apple Remote Desktop is easy to use from one Mac to another.) To turn on Universal Control, you just click a button and choose a couple of options. If you’ve had experience with KVM devices (devices that allow you to use the same keyboard and mouse with two computers), or VNC servers (virtual network computing), you know that these can often be finicky to set up.
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