Ventura and iPad OS 16.3 Have Broken Sidecar

I had the same issue. After three days with Apple Support -- and six different techs and tech supervisors -- the last supervisor finally told me there is an internal Apple document that clearly states that Ventura *intentionally* kills any Bluetooth pairing between a Mac and *any* iOS device. I couldn't believe it... that Apple would do this, especially when they specifically mention that Ventura supports Bluetooth connectivity with display sharing on an iOS device.

So, we will al be living back in a USB-cable-connected workflow, as it seems Apple has quietly removed this feature... I just wish they would be up-front about it, and they risk facing a class-action lawsuit when they misinform their customers while internally communicating that a useful feature no longer works.

I see no mention of macOS 13.3.1 and iPadOS 16.4.1 in the same post. When that is done, does Sidecar still not function?

As none of the product teams participate in these user-supported public communities, you may need to send feedback to the macOS product team, or the iPad product team, as there is no specific Sidecar team available.

That's what I ran into as well. M2 Mac mini, 1st gen ipad pro. Worked perfectly over wireless last weekend, but today(since updating to 16.3 on the ipad) it connects and immediately freezes on one frame, disconnects, takes several seconds, and repeats. Resetting ipad's network settings, disabling location services, signing out and back into icloud on both mac and ipad, creating a new user profile on mac, using multiple different networks on three different wireless routers (both 2.4 and 5ghz), I can only get it to work consistently over USB. Wireless just got broken with 16.3.

Well apparently running a restore on my ipad has it working properly over wifi again. Obviously it's on ios 16.3, so I'm confused why just upgrading to 16.3 caused a problem but restoring the ipad from a backup made with 16.3 seems to have fixed the issue. We'll see how long this lasts.

Have the same issue. MacBook Pro 13 (2019), IPad Pro 12.9 M1. Tried to restore it from 16.3 (was already on IPad), but nothing has changed. Spent almost 2 days on this. It's so frustrating and I really need my Ipad as a second display asap!!! Help!!!

Sidecar had been working wirelessly great until yesterday (April 7) when I upgraded the Mac to 13.3 and the iPad Pro to 16.4.1. Now the iPad does not show up in the Screen Mirroring menu anymore. I rebooted both devices, checked Wifi/Bluetooth settings, Apple ID, etc, to no avail. But connecting via USB works Ok, at least for now. Who knows when USB gets killed, too.

Apple Support having customers waste their time checking Wifi/Bluetooth/AppleId and countless other settings while knowing that Apple has secretly and deliberately broken/eliminated heavily advertised features seems very wrong and even illegal to me.

I'm still facing this issue. I already tried all the suggested procedures (restart both devices, reset network settings, boot in safe mode, etc.). Nothing solves the connection issue. I can use Sidecar with the USB cable with no issues so far, so I guess the problem is indeed related to Ventura killing the existing connection. I hope this gets fixed soon.

This is wild! I've been having the same issue (2020 MacBook Pro running Ventura 13.5.1, iPad Pro running OS 16.6). Connection stays stable over USB, but disconnects every five seconds if I try to run Sidecar via Bluetooth. I explicitly made the jump to iPad on the promise of reliable wireless mirroring. I'm an artist and want to be able to use my iPad in conjunction with Photoshop for client work.

Glad you got some kind of answer from the internal team, but what a drag that they've killed this feature. I'll submit a ticket directly just in case there's any chance that'll convince them to change it back.

AubreyP

Your books and collections thread is closed but this is how I do it. I search. Open every book from the search list. Then go to 'ALL' and sort by recent. Group select and drag to the collection I want. It is a pain as you have a heap of books to close but seems quicker than manually adding from the search list.

ditto

ditto

I had the same problem with my Ipad Pro 1st Gen and Macbook Air M1. Today after software upgrade finally it works fine without cable connection. Macbook Ventura 13.4.1 and Ipad 16.5.1.

So try it.

Unfortunately after restarting both: Ipad and Macbook it stopped working. What a mess... I don't understand was happend.