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Hi guys,
Just moved to Catalina, was excited to use Sidecar on my iPad Air 2 - but now it seems you've decided to drop support for this at the last minute? What's the story, will this be introduced at a later date? Really annoying if you've decided to leave it out of support, by all accounts it was supported during the beta stages.
Any feedback greatly appreciated.
I have been looking forward to use sidecar on my iPad air 2 since the release of Catalina. That is the reason I keep following all the apple news recently even I am really busy. Words can not describe how disappointed I am right now.
I have been looking forward to use sidecar on my iPad air 2 since the release of Catalina. That is the reason I keep following all the apple news recently even I am really busy. Words can not describe how disappointed I am right now.
Supported hardware
Sidecar requires Mac with Skylake processors and later models, and iPad models that support Apple Pencil.
Sidecar-supported Mac models:
• MacBook introduced in 2016 or later
• MacBook Air introduced in 2018 or later • MacBook Pro introduced in 2016 or later • Mac mini introduced in 2018 or later
• iMac introduced in late 2015 or later
• iMac Pro introduced in 2017 or later
• Mac Pro introduced in 2019
Sidecar-supported iPad models
: • 12.9-inch iPad Pro
• 11-inch iPad Pro
• 10.5-inch iPad Pro
• 9.7-inch iPad Pro
• iPad (6th generation or later) • iPad mini (5th generation)
• iPad Air (3rd generation)
Thanks for that. I was sure it was supported in beta based on some articles I read, seems I'm wrong. I think the assumption people made was that any device capable of running iPadOS would support Sidecar, clearly its not the case. Shame, was looking forward to that.
Actually it was supported with both first beta builds of macOS and iPadOS. It worked wonderfully well when it worked and I'm really annoyed they went back on this. I thought the following builds were just broken and waited impatiently for the full final release, and now here we are...
Gutted. For what it's worth I was under the same impression. I had also read articles staying they'd support the iPad Air 2. See the top post here...
But Apple giveth and Apple taketh away. I've learned that much after 15 years in the Apple Garden.
Shame. I didn't have a reason to upgrade my iPad before now.
Check: https://www.duetdisplay.com/
It allows to use an iPad air 2 as a second screen; I've used it for a couple years and it's been working quite well; I haven't seen sidecar in action to compare though.
Alternatively, some people have managed to make some unsupported configurations work: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/side-car-has-anyone-got-it-working.2184104/page-11?post=27807001#post-27807001
I've been using just that until now, but it's MUCH worse in terms of performance. I'm pretty sure Apple has proprietary encoding/decoding tech only they can use, because the performance even wirelessly was incredibly good with SideCar. **** I'm disappointed.
FWIW, the iPad Air 2 was never supported with the Catalina betas. Apple is not here btw. This is a users site.
You're welcome. I know from first hand knowledge that it didn't. I was running Catalina dev betas since the first one this past June. I also happen to have an iPad Air 2 among others.
Well as I said, it didn't work for me.
Had the same expectation after catalina install. Good thing i still have “Duet” does the same thing.
I've been using a 3rd party app called Duet. It works great and it also allows your iPad as a secondary monitor on Windows (Once you get use to it it's hard to go back to a single monitor)
Apple do not give a **** about old devices. They want your money. They want us to spend money on new devices. All about money.
Sidecar iPad Air 2
