You can’t mirror your iPhone while mirroring your Mac on Apple Vision Pro

So shut, but up to now. Forward of WWDC 2024, I had hoped Apple would let you mirror your iPhone inside of the Vision Pro, identical to how you should utilize your Mac on an unlimited digital show. As a substitute, we bought iPhone Mirroring on macOS Sequoia. Because the identify implies, it can allow you to see all the things in your iPhone from the consolation of your Mac.

However, I questioned, what for those who mirrored a Mac that was mirroring an iPhone within the Imaginative and prescient Professional? It looks like the best workaround in idea, one that might clear up the headset’s annoying incapability to play properly along with your iPhone. However, sadly, it will not work. We have heard from educated sources that Apple’s {hardware} solely helps one among its Continuity mirroring options on the time. So for those who’re sending your Mac’s display screen to the Imaginative and prescient Professional, you will not be capable to mirror your iPhone on the identical time.

We have not heard the precise motive for that limitation, however I might wager it comes all the way down to networking limitations. Mirroring a pointy and lag-free model of your Mac’s display screen is troublesome sufficient — juggling that alongside a superbly rendered copy of your iPhone is perhaps too powerful for some Macs. Apple is already pushing past its present Continuity restrictions with visionOS 2, which is able to assist greater decision Mac mirroring, in addition to the flexibility to virtualize an ultra-wide show. So maybe there’s room for multi-device mirroring down the road.

It isn’t arduous to think about Apple bringing the iPhone mirroring function on to the Imaginative and prescient Professional finally, however ideally, it could additionally work alongside Mac mirroring within the headset.

Listed here are a number of different tidbits we have realized about iPhone mirroring on macOS Sequoia whereas exploring WWDC:

• It requires each WiFi and Bluetooth to work, and the iPhone is projected at 60 fps.

• While you launch a recreation, the iPhone window flips into panorama view in your Mac. The sport’s sound additionally seems to be synchronized effectively.

• Mirroring will use across the identical quantity of battery life in your iPhone as typical utilization.

• Should you unlock your iPhone immediately, the mirrored window closes instantly in your Mac.

• You will finally be capable to drag and drop recordsdata and different content material between your iPhone and Mac. This function will even be out there on third-party apps.

Catch up right here for all of the information out of Apple’s WWDC 2024.