How to Fix iPhone 13 Pro Mirroring Issues in iOS 18?

Started working

I don't know if this has any impact, but I was having issues with wifi and I ended up turning Private Network to "off".

They it started working. 70% of the time, I get a time out but after a retry, it tends to work 90% of the time.

I solved this problem (after months of fruitless attempts) . I don't see my solution mentioned anywhere in this thread so wanted to share.

Unrelated, I happened to be reading a support article for Apple Intelligence when something caught my eye.

When I read the line about `Device Language and Siri Language set to the same

supported region` it sparked a thought. I suddenly recalled that a couple of months ago I was goofing

around changing my iPhone to different Regions and giving Siri different accents.

I opened my iPhone to check and sure enough, the region was set to `Canada`. I changed it back to `United States` then used these commands to reset `iPhone Mirroring.app`. I started the setup flow and it started working again.

kill -9 "$(pgrep -f '/System/Applications/iPhone Mirroring.app')" 2> /dev/null
defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist
open '/System/Applications/iPhone Mirroring.app'

I'm SO happy to have this back.

I updated to Sequoia 15.01 and it solved the problem.

Michaelm4936 wrote:

I had testing using iPhone 12 but got a new iPhone 16. Where I had setup the new phone via the transfer from my original iPhone. When I tried to connect use the iPhone Mirroring I could not get it work on the new phone. Sadly the old phone was wiped and given to a family member. But just as I found this article I did the reset network settings on the new iPhone. As soon as I reconnected my iPhone to the WIFI the setup iPhone Mirroring initial setup window appeared in the iPhone Mirroring app on my Mac. Prior to this I had tried power off the phone for a minute with no luck.

This is what worked for me. Thanks!

The same problem happened to me; I just turned off the anti-virus firewall and reset iPhone access on iPhone Mirroring Settings several times, and it worked.

There is one additional requirement: you need to be signed in to FaceTime with your Apple account.

I restarted both my phone and Mac at the same time, and the iPhone mirroring started to work again.

The requirement for using the iPhone Mirroring app are the same as for AirPlay mirroring (sorry, I should have mentioned both options). To confirm, does your Mac meet those requirements? If so, are your iPhone and Mac signed into the same Apple ID and is two-factor authentication enabled?

Sadly, no love from this solution for me with the iPhone Mirroring app.

For me,

(1) Running following command on terminal

defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity

(2) Deleting file

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist

Reset the faulty setup.

But thanks for suggesting.

I was on the phone a couple days back with Apple Support. It was a bit tricky to get the first level tech to focus on the app as he was just focusing on AirPlay in general, which works just time. Same with the Continuity Camera. I got to level 2 support, and we mucked around a bit. He offered the typical solutions of a) signing in an out of iCloud and b) reinstalling MacOS, but was cool when I complained about the time and disruption that creates. His suggestion was to wait a bit until they had more insight into the issue. He said he was reading a draft of a document that acknowledges the problem, but at this time didn't really offer many more solutions. I guess we just hang tight.

Got the same issue, the worst bit is that iPhone mirroring is working fine on a guest profile but not on the admin profile. It must be an issue with some settings perhaps. Unable to figure out whats wrong.

I had testing using iPhone 12 but got a new iPhone 16. Where I had setup the new phone via the transfer from my original iPhone. When I tried to connect use the iPhone Mirroring I could not get it work on the new phone. Sadly the old phone was wiped and given to a family member. But just as I found this article I did the reset network settings on the new iPhone. As soon as I reconnected my iPhone to the WIFI the setup iPhone Mirroring initial setup window appeared in the iPhone Mirroring app on my Mac. Prior to this I had tried power off the phone for a minute with no luck.

It does not work on MacBook Air M1(2020) and MacBook Pro M1(2020).

Even I had the same issue. Later I found out that for it to work we need T2 security chip. MacBook M1s released in 2020 does not have this ;(

I’m facing the same issue. I made sure I’m logged into the same account on both the iMac and the iPhone. I also made sure that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are enabled. The iMac is updated to the latest version 15. I signed out of the account on both the computer and the phone and logged back in, but the problem still persists.

I am getting the exact same message. My macbook pro is a 2020 m1. My iphone is 15 pro max. Both are connected to the same wifi, and loge into the same Apple id. I have tried resetting and restoring, nothing helps so far. By the way, my ipone is updated to ios 18 release. But no joy!

Yeah, same issue I have MBP m3 with MacOS 15 and iPhone 13 Pro Max with iOS 18 but screen mirroring doesn’t work, same iCloud account as well, tried logging out of iCloud and all that jazz. Weird thing is other continuity features still work like the Universal Clipboard. Even weirder I see websites say that the iPhone will have a setting under Settings < General < Airplay & Continuity < IPhone Mirroring. But I don’t even have that setting so idk what’s wrong.