Sidecar no longer working (miscellaneous error -455)

Sidecar worked yesterday. Had to issues sharing my screen to either my iPad Mini (5th gen) or iPad Pro (4th gen). So this morning, I go to connect and I'm getting "miscellaneous error -455". The interesting thing is that the iPad device (either one), goes to a lock screen when I go to connect. It wasn't doing this yesterday. I've already rebooted ALL devices including my Mac Mini M2. Also turned off Universal Control and turned it back on. Any ideas?

VMware, macOS 11.0

Posted on Oct 22, 2023 10:48 AM

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Oct 23, 2023 12:11 PM in response to JJStefani

Hi JJStefani,


With Sidecar not working the way you expect, let's test to see if it behaves correctly in safe mode:

Start up your Mac in safe mode


If Sidecar is working correctly in safe mode, it's likely a recently installed app or a login item is interfering with Sidecar.


Test with these steps and let us know what happens.


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