7 thoughts on “One way to use an iPad as a display for a headless Mac”
Very useful as iPads replace traditional computers.
That’s *super* cool.
So I don’t have to look, can anyone remind me if I can use an iMac as the initial display for the headless Mac?
This is how I work from home 😀 Perfect, lightweight.
Nice.
I regularly use the fantastic (albeit not cheap) Screens app on my iPad for connecting from my living room to Macs at work and even at home. At least with Screens there is no need to enable access to VNC viewers: it just works. Anyway, although very handy, a remote viewer is not a replacement for a directly connected monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Also, the VNC protocol has problems with keyboard map compatibility, especially when using international keyboards. Works fine from macOS to macOS (using the built-in VNC support), but many VNC apps for iOS do not handle keyboard maps well. Screens is the only app which does not present these problems (among the iOS VNC apps I tried).
This is how I do work. Mac mini rack mounted in the server room. Jump Desktop on my 12.9″ iPad at my desk, connecting a 27″ display via HDMI lightning connector. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse connected to the iPad (Jump Desktop supports the Citrix X1 bluetooth mouse).
Effectively gives me a dual screen setup at my desk – Jump Desktop running in the left 1/3 of the iPad screen (pushing full screen out to the external monitor). Right 2/3 of the iPad screen and a flyover app for multitasking.
Awesome.
I do this all the time. Though instead of a free VNC viewer, I use the excellent Screens app from https://edovia.com/ – it’s well worth the price.
Very useful as iPads replace traditional computers.
That’s *super* cool.
So I don’t have to look, can anyone remind me if I can use an iMac as the initial display for the headless Mac?
This is how I work from home 😀 Perfect, lightweight.
Nice.
I regularly use the fantastic (albeit not cheap) Screens app on my iPad for connecting from my living room to Macs at work and even at home. At least with Screens there is no need to enable access to VNC viewers: it just works. Anyway, although very handy, a remote viewer is not a replacement for a directly connected monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Also, the VNC protocol has problems with keyboard map compatibility, especially when using international keyboards. Works fine from macOS to macOS (using the built-in VNC support), but many VNC apps for iOS do not handle keyboard maps well. Screens is the only app which does not present these problems (among the iOS VNC apps I tried).
This is how I do work. Mac mini rack mounted in the server room. Jump Desktop on my 12.9″ iPad at my desk, connecting a 27″ display via HDMI lightning connector. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse connected to the iPad (Jump Desktop supports the Citrix X1 bluetooth mouse).
Effectively gives me a dual screen setup at my desk – Jump Desktop running in the left 1/3 of the iPad screen (pushing full screen out to the external monitor). Right 2/3 of the iPad screen and a flyover app for multitasking.
Awesome.
I do this all the time. Though instead of a free VNC viewer, I use the excellent Screens app from https://edovia.com/ – it’s well worth the price.