iPhone Mirroring "Timed Out"

What worked for me after the connection timed out on my first couple of tries:

1. restarted my phone
2. entered my passcode
3. locked my phone with the side button
4. re-initiated the mirroring connection from my desktop app. I didn't unlock my phone while it was pairing.

Hope this works for you!

Coincidence or not I can't be sure, but as soon as the "Private WiFi Address" was set to "Rotating" on both devices (14 Pro and M3 Pro Mac), Mirroring came back to life. No amount of rebooting, deleting devices, or anything else worked.

I noticed a little orange caution symbol on my Mac that alerted me and I changed it from "off". The iPhone was on "fixed".

Mirroring worked initially for a day or two then broke. Changed those settings and it instantly worked following passcode entry, no rebooting of anything, and it's working perfectly since.

This initially works, but then doesn't later - at least for me.

I have exactly thew same problem and so does my mum (different location/phone/Macs).

I get the iPhone notifications on my Mac but, when I click on them, the app opens and eventually times out - This has already become the most annoying app from Apple EVER (and I have been using Apple products since 2010.

The only way round this - and it defeats the object - is to switch the phone on and then off again.

This was the only thing I was looking forward to in Sequoia and I am so dissaponted.

Same. Tried with it charging also.

M1 Macbook Pro, iphone 15. All updated to latest versions.

I also get the notifications just fine mirrored, just no active connection.

Make sure you aren't using a VPN and you have all firewalls or other "security" apps turned off.

This also happened to me after I clicked on the "iPhone Mirroring" app on my Mac while my iPhone's bluetooth is switched off. In addition, my iPhones WiFi kept disconnecting while I was having this issue.

I did reboot my Mac, and hard-restarted my iPhone, but no luck.

What I did that fixed it is to reset network settings on my phone. Then, on my Mac, I opened the "iPhone Mirroring" app, went to Settings, and then "Reset iPhone access..." It's now connecting again. I don't know if you need to go through both of these steps, or just one of these, but at least one of these fixed it

I think our problem is the system requirements: "Your computer is a Mac with Apple silicon or Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip" -- for iMacs that means 2020 or later. Mine is a Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019. Rats.

Do you have the macOS firewall running by any chance? Turning it off fixed everything for me, including iPhone Mirroring, Zoom, ssh and git, and so on.

Rebooted my Mac, and it started working again.

Before that, iPhone Mirroring and Air Drop were not working on my mac.

Following the comment on Side Car I chacked that, and it didn't work too. So that pointed my suspicion at the Mac OS.

Before that tried:

• Quit iPhone Mirroring
• Reboot iPhone
• charging iPhone (as per comment in this thread)

All of these didn't work.

MBA M1 2021 w/ Sequoia, iPhone 14 Pro w/ iOS 18, iPad Air 5th gen w/ iPadOS 17.7

0xf1ac wrote:

Yeah… some security software just doesn’t work reliably under Sequoia, which can lead to networking issues. Here’s a TechCrunch article about it

I would just like to point out that all of the security companies mentioned in that article, including the one that recently took down most of the internet and then sent people invalid $10 Uber Eats gifts cards as an apology, have had access to macOS Sequoia since early June. Maybe they should have tested their products in June, July, August, or early September even.

Granted, the built-in firewall is a different story entirely. Apple didn't test that. But then again, Apple doesn't turn it on by default either - nor should anyone else.

It did work for me! thanks! adding to that keep on mind if you changed your phone recently, you will i have to change the iPhone you want the mirroring app takes, you do that in the settings- Widget and below pick the iphone you want to be connected to.