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I know you can connect an iPhone 15 via its USB-C cable to an external monitor and mirror the iPhone. Why in the world does that not work with an Apple Pro Display XDR?? I can't find anything online showing it being done, and I spoke with an Apple rep who told me that the XDR does not support iPhone. How does that happen?
iPhone 15 Pro Max
Regardless of what the technical reasons are, from a consumer point of view, it's kind of ridiculous that I can plug my iPhone 15 to any 3rd party monitor that supports HDMI or DisplayPort, but it won't work with Apple's own premium displays. Did I pay $5k for an Apple Display that doesn't work with its own products? Makes no sense.
Regardless of what the technical reasons are, from a consumer point of view, it's kind of ridiculous that I can plug my iPhone 15 to any 3rd party monitor that supports HDMI or DisplayPort, but it won't work with Apple's own premium displays. Did I pay $5k for an Apple Display that doesn't work with its own products? Makes no sense.
The Apple XDR (and Studio) displays have to connect to a Thunderbolt source. The iPhone 15 has USB-C but it's not Thunderbolt so it won't work with those displays. Some iPads have USB-c/Thunderbolt ports and will work with those displays.
The xdr can support screen mirroring out from an iphone 15pro when attached with their braided tb cable at least. Just isn't listed on their site, and it drops a bit. So have to unplug and replug to get the screen to turn back on every once in a while
Apple says that the iPad Air (5th generation) is compatible with the 27" 5K Apple Studio Display – even though the specifications for that iPad do not say anything about it having Thunderbolt.
That iPad is an outlier in another way – it is based on the M1 chip, but doesn't have Thunderbolt.
henrus wrote:
Regardless of what the technical reasons are, from a consumer point of view, it's kind of ridiculous that I can plug my iPhone 15 to any 3rd party monitor that supports HDMI or DisplayPort
Monitors which don't have a resolution of 6K, and the associated demands that this places both on the GPU and on the bandwidth of the connection to the monitor.
Use Feedback - Displays - Apple to vent.
Macs only for the XDR:
iPhone 15 can't use Apple Pro Display XDR as an external monitor??
