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Mirror iPhone to iPad?

I can screen share to my iPad when on FaceTime but not otherwise. Is this true? Do I really have to use a third party app to mirror my iPhone to my iPad?

iPad Pro, iPadOS 16

Posted on Jun 3, 2023 10:05 AM

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Posted on Jul 4, 2023 6:44 PM

LotusPilot wrote:
... mirroring is effectively pointless


I disagree. There are uses for iPhone-> iPad mirroring that have nothing do to with apps that happen to be common to both platforms. For example:


I have a Honda Civic that is old enough that it does not have any tech (no CarPlay, no bluetooth, etc.) I would like to mirror my iPhone map apps (Google Maps & Apple Maps) to an iPad mounted on my dashboard to get a larger map display.


I'm not going to buy a new car just to get the latest tech gizmos and I'm also not interested in spending an extra $150 for a cellular iPad model plus bear the cost of an additional cell plan for it.


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Jul 4, 2023 6:44 PM in response to LotusPilot

LotusPilot wrote:
... mirroring is effectively pointless


I disagree. There are uses for iPhone-> iPad mirroring that have nothing do to with apps that happen to be common to both platforms. For example:


I have a Honda Civic that is old enough that it does not have any tech (no CarPlay, no bluetooth, etc.) I would like to mirror my iPhone map apps (Google Maps & Apple Maps) to an iPad mounted on my dashboard to get a larger map display.


I'm not going to buy a new car just to get the latest tech gizmos and I'm also not interested in spending an extra $150 for a cellular iPad model plus bear the cost of an additional cell plan for it.


Oct 17, 2023 1:04 PM in response to LotusPilot

except when you want to use the iPhone camera and the big display of the iPad to show you what the lens sees.. you can now connect 3p DSLR cameras but not an iPhone?


“everything’s the same so it’s essentially pointless?”


Obviously not.


the fact that your answer is from 2023 is even worse. Let the tech be the tech and not have glass walls for literally no reason, heaven forbid someone frames themselves nicely in a shot.


would much rather mirror straight to the iPad than download a shady app. Just tried to look for “camera plus” and about 24 various apps showed up.


you tell me, which is a better experience?

a built in experience that wouldn’t take much to do?


or a 3rd party mess of privacy, function, and stability.

Jun 29, 2023 12:50 PM in response to mocho99

So I found that LotusPilot had helped another person with a similar request as mine. So all I want to do is view my iPhone camera on my iPad. LotusPilot had suggested an app called Camera Plus, lo and behold I had bought this app long ago and have not used it since buying my iPhone 13 Pro. And to add to my luck it does indeed do exactly what I wanted which is to mirror my iphone camera to the iPad :)

The image on the iPad is not as clear as the phone, but it works! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction LotusPilot !

Nov 7, 2023 7:34 AM in response to Christina London

So I gotta trust a 3rd party app from Wangxu (china) that wants my WiFi password in order to work when this could be solved first party in a second?


oh and the QR code scan option doesn’t even work?


oh and it forced the iPad in portrait mode for literally no reason?


and then refuses to work w the QR code?

no thanks..


its 2023 we can do better. This is sad


Nov 8, 2023 6:37 AM in response to Mattheyea

So after some experimenting I found that Filmic Pro works really good does exactly what you want, gives you lots of controls , no data collection, only catch is that it’s a subscription service, i think it’s 50$ for a year, which if you are actually going to use this feature seems fine to me, specially since we’ve seen how crappy all the alternatives are.


Just wanted to circle back to this since I did so much complaining before.

Hope this helps!


Jun 28, 2023 9:58 PM in response to LotusPilot

I've been looking for a definitive answer to the question, so thank you.

And yes there seems to be a billion apps that say they can do that, but buying apps can be a crap shoot. Is there a good app that you would recommend?

Also there is a very good reason to mirror the iphone to the ipad and that is the camera on the iphone. Using the camera on the iphone to view parts of your body, etc. live on the iPad.


Thank you for your post.

Jul 5, 2023 10:35 AM in response to Johnathan Burger

Johnathan Burger wrote:

Why not just use one of the various map apps available for the iPad directly on the ipad?

Turn on Hotspot on the iPhone and use it's cellular data for the ipad.

My question is would this work for a WiFi-only iPad that has no GPS chip? The iPad can certainly use the iPhone's Hotspot for a data connection but how would the location services work?

Jul 5, 2023 10:44 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

While the iPhone has benefit of GNSS/GPS location services - this information is not shared with tethered devices.


As such, a tethered WiFi Only iPad will only be able to derive [fixed] location of the Cellular Provider’s public internet gateway IP Address - and lookup of detected adjacent WiFi networks for which the geographic location is known to Apple’s crowd-sourced database.

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