iPhone Mirroring "Timed Out"

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

Worked for me but I had to add the steps from @PG3474: Unsure why that made the difference for me. Hope this 'belt and suspenders' combination of steps works for someone else too.

1. Switch Private Wi-Fi address setting to Rotating on both devices (located in Wi-Fi settings, then by tapping the (i) symbol next to your network name on iPhone, and the 'Details' button on Mac OS)
2. Shut down iPhone*
3. Quit iPhone Mirroring on Mac (my example is an M1 Macbook Air)
4. Restart iPhone. Enter your PIN on iPhone if it asks
5. Launch iPhone Mirroring on Mac

*My iPhone was plugged in to my Mac to top off the battery, unsure if this made a difference in the devices handshaking with each other more easily or not. I realize that creating a wired connection between the two devices defeats the purpose of iPhone mirroring for developers and product designers, but I'm just a goober who wants to sometimes play Balatro in a side window or other nonsense.

This is what worked for me (from @robertobado)

Resetting iPhone Mirroring credent… | Apple Developer Forums

After reading many posts in several forum threads regarding tweaking handsoff, wifi, bluetooth, restarts and more, none of that worked for me. Closest was this "Reset iPhone access" in the mirroring app itself, but failing with the error people already described above.

So I decided to manually force clean such credentials. After some trial and error, here are the steps that worked for me:

1. Close iPhone mirroring app completely

2. Open your favorite terminal app

3. Browse to ScreenContinuity user preferences folder:

$ cd ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenContinuity/Data/Library/Preferences

1. Delete file com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist:

$ rm com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist

1. Open iPhone mirroring app again and you should be good to to.

If you are signed into a corporate VPN, it will block the iPhone mirroring, as it doesn't know how to reach the iPhone's IP address. Works fine when VPN is disconnected, but doesn't work when my corporate VPN is connected. It would be better if this was done via Bluetooth

My failure was due to an older version of Sentinel installed by my IT department. It installs a Network extension that, once disabled / removed allowed it to work.

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.

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.

/Users/xxxxx/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenContinuity/Data/Library/Preferences

delete all the files in here, close iphone mirroring app and reopen.

i have m2 mac air and iphone 15 pro plus

I thought Iphone mirroring only worked with the Apple Chipset versions of Macs? M1, M2, ect. It states in your description that you have an Intel Chipset.

If you are having issues, what worked for me is going into your iPhone and reboot your network settings.

I hope this helps.

M3 MacBook Pro 14", Iphone 16 Pro Max

OK, just found out the iPhone needs to be charging for it to work ...and it worked.

I thought it's not good to keep the iPhone on charge all the time?

If you use tools like Lulu or Little Snitch, then you have to configure a specific rule or you have to disable them while using iPhoneMirroring on Mac

HOPE THIS HELPS

I was having the same problem. It stopped mirroring. It was because i turned passcode off on my iphone. I turned passcode back on and it now works.

Restarting the iPhone didn't work for me. I connected my Mac to the iPhone hotspot and successfully enabled Mirroring. After that, I switched the Wi-Fi connection, and it still worked normally.

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!

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