Hi, I'm having difficulty getting the new iPhone mirroring to work. Im using an iPhone 15 pro with iOS 18.0 and iMac withSequoia 15.0 loaded. when I select mirroring I get the message on the phone to enter the iPhone passcode to trust the Mac. I enter the correct passcode, but the Mac then displays message unable to connect to iPhone..
Anyone help please?
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iMac 27″, macOS 15.0
Hello Gordonbuckley!
The Apple Support article iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPhone from your Mac says to make sure:
If all of these are true, the article says to try any of the following (If the first one doesn’t work, try the second. If the second doesn’t work, try the third, and so on):
If none of these work, contact the Official Apple Support.
I hope this helps!
Hello Gordonbuckley!
The Apple Support article iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPhone from your Mac says to make sure:
If all of these are true, the article says to try any of the following (If the first one doesn’t work, try the second. If the second doesn’t work, try the third, and so on):
If none of these work, contact the Official Apple Support.
I hope this helps!
I was able to get it working again by removing my iPhone as a mirroring device on my Mac, then removing my Mac under "Settings > General > Airplay & Continuity > iPhone Mirroring". Then I started the setup process again from my Mac, and it's working again.
I was having the same issue of my MacBook Air not connecting to my iPhone. Once I turned off the VPNs for both devices, it connected just fine. Hope this helps others.
Thank you, turning off the VPN on my laptop totally fixed this. Works perfectly now.
yes turning off the VPN on my mac worked.
I’m not sure if this will work for everyone else, but it’s worth a try. I discovered that if you open the iPhone mirror on your Mac, go to the top-left corner, and click on the “Settings” of iPhone mirroring, you’ll see an option to change the iPhone. Click on this option, scroll up a bit, and you’ll see the “Widgets” section. Under this section, it will show the iPhone, and you can change it to your own. I hope this helps. It worked for me, and it’s working fine now. :)
i ran this command on terminal in mac
defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity onenessPairedDeviceID
please use that on your own risk , after this command i have setup again and everything works after.
iPhone must be in discoverable Bluetooth mode, by opening the Bluetooth settings screen on iPhone for a while attempting to connect for the first time. Once connected, lock the phone, and the mirroring will start.
The reason the app doesn’t work is because I have an Intel processor!
Thanks Apple…. For nothing
FWIW I have a setup that checks all the boxes from iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPhone from your Mac, and I'd say that my Mac is able to successfully establish a mirroring connection with my iPhone...5% of the time? And honestly that might be too generous an estimate.
It worked for me when the feature first dropped, and nothing has changed. What's most annoying is that it sees my iPhone, and when it's unlocked, it says, "iPhone mirroring will connect when iPhone is no longer in use". When the lock screen timer expires and the screen locks, it retries connecting and says, "timed out starting iPhone mirroring."
Also, I'm unable to revoke access, so I'm just stuck. This sucks.
Same for me,
I used it for a lot of time , than suddenly some days ago it just stopped to work.
I did all the update but it's seems that the I Phone is "unable to connect".
same wi-fi, bluetooth on and same account.
100% agree! I’ve tried all the above Solutions but nothing works for me. I thought the vpn solution would work but still nothing. Mine doesn’t even revoke the iPhone? After I’ve tried to revoke it I then get the follow instructions on my phone but there is no instructions to follow? Now what I will say is this function when it works is brilliant! I didn’t think this would be a good feature but when it did work it was a good way of keeping phone in my bag and transferring media from Mac to phone. COME ON APPLE YOU NEED TO FIX THIS!!!!! We shouldn’t have to do all these tweaks to make something that should work anyway! Like I’ve said before this did work for me and when I did it was great so please find a way to get this back!!!!
Landed on this page from Google search and found out the top-rated answer is not working on my iPhone 16 Pro Max. After two hours of researching, found out this online blog post did the trick and I am now having no problem for mirroring iPhone to Mac/PC.
iPhone Mirroring is the new AirDrop
It's hard to rationalize why Apple does this kind of stuff: they have a brilliant idea that seems impossible materialize.
It's always the same. In this case it's iPhone Mirroring that never works when you actually need it. I have my phone in the home office, I happen to be in the living room sitting on the couch with my Mac laptop. I suddenly need to download an app for my phone, which is in the office next to the living room and when I open iPhone Mirroring it says that I have to unlock the phone to make it work, that wouldn't be that bad if I haven't done it like a million times already because it's always the same BS. What is the point then? Isn't the whole point of iPhone Mirroring that I shouldn't have to get up and move to the room to grab my phone ?? FAILED TECHNOLOGY.
EDIT: and BTW everything is in the latest OS version, everything is current tech M1 MBA and iPhone 14 Pro, everything on the same network, you know, that kind of stuff.... this shouldn't be happening ALL THE TIME.
iPhone 15 Pro Mirroring function is not working
