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

Ran into similar issue where mirroring worked for the first time, but started timing out from the next time.

Also, could not see the setting on iPhone.

Turns out that "iPhone Mirroring" setting under General > Airplay & Continuity DOES NOT show up until a Mac initiates a mirroring request.

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.

It worked just fine post that.

Hope this helps.

I found the solution, this happened to me when I downgraded from 18.1 to 18.0

In your Mac open iPhone Mirroring app and on the top finder menu, go to settings then you will see a popup window click on the button "Reset iPhone access" in the left bottom corner. You may get an error if you have tried other things before this but ignore the error. Try connecting again and it will work this time.

Here is what worked for me (thanks to drakcrestron229):

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Ran into similar issue where mirroring worked for the first time, but started timing out from the next time.

Also, could not see the setting on iPhone.

Turns out that "iPhone Mirroring" setting under General > Airplay & Continuity DOES NOT show up until a Mac initiates a mirroring request.

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.

It worked just fine post that.

Hope this helps.

A A P L wrote:

I finally fixed it:

I was able to fix this by:

“defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity”

And

Deleting: “~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist”

Give that a shot!

I should have been more clear.

For step #1, open the /Applications/Terminal.app and copy/paste the first line:

defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity <hit return>

For step #2, goto Finder and type Command-Shift-G

Paste in there: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist

Move to trash and reboot.

This should fix your problems...

Same problem. Turns out that, in my case, since my account has 2 iPhones it was toggled to the wrong one in System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Widgets > iPhone. When I toggled to the correct phone a couple of times and then restarted the phone, it allowed me to start and complete the joining process. Maybe this will help you or others.

I finally fixed it:

I was able to fix this by:

“defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity”

And

Deleting: “~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist”

Give that a shot!

So I had the same issue after upgrading to Sequoia and iOS18. I have a Macbook Pro M1. What seemed to work for me was to log out of icloud on both devices and then login again and opened the iPhone Mirroring app and it was able to pair my phone.

This absolutely worked for me. THANK YOU! However, when I went to run the command in Terminal to delete the p.list, I got the finger. No problem - I went in manually to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist and deleted it and restarted. Once mirroring launched, it walked me through a 'new' set up and I'm up and running!

I had the same issue and this solved it. Toggling the new phone in >Desktop & Dock>Widgets>iPhone worked immediately. I didn't even need to restart.

I just got it to work, so I logged out of icloud on my Macbook again, and reconnected the account, I turned off my phone then went in to the iphone mirroring app and it works now, both my laptop and my phone were connected to the same internet as well. But other than that I don't think I did anything else that was different.

Allowing all the incoming connections on Mac firewall is what resolved the issue for me I also followed some other suggestions from this article 7 Simple Fixes for iPhone Mirroring Not Working on macOS Sequoia, my face ID was not set initially which I didn't know was the need for this feature but thanks god it is now working fine.

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I have had the same issue connecting a iPhone 12 to a Mac mini 2018.

Having reset, logged on an off, restarted numerous times.

The resolution was, on the MAC, Settings> Privacy and Security > Bluetooth > add "iPhone mirroring" as an application which can use Bluetooth.

Hope this helps someone else

Mirroring your iPhone to a Mac requires a Mac with Apple silicon or Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip using macOS Sequoia or later

Does your Mac meet those requirements? If so, perhaps this will help:

Use AirPlay to stream video or mirror the screen of your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Regards.

"defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity" this command helped. Thank you.

This solved my problem. Updated to Sequoia 15.0.1.