Hi guys,
This may sound a bit crazy, but now that the iPhone mirroring feature works poorly with VoiceOver, why not just use my MacBook’s keyboard to control my iPhone? There are many paid apps on the App Store, but I’m looking for an accessible, free alternative.
Any suggestions? Thank you!
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I've been looking for something similar too.
You could also plug your iPhone into your mac with a cable and open quicktime and have the audio come out of your mac as well. If you were able to use your iPhone from the mac with the keyboard with audio, that is what I hope iPhone mirroring can become, but without the cables.
@Levi Gobin
How can I make my iPhone’s audio play through my Mac? I’ve been using my Mac for about a week now and loving it! It would be cool to have VoiceOver’s audio come from my Mac.
I know we can use AirPlay to play media across devices, but how do you do that with QuickTime?
Screen Mirroring..
I just discovered the screen mirroring feature, it works great. If I'm connecting my phone via a cable then there should be a way to use the external mac keyboard on my phone then..
Bluetooth
You should be able to connect via Bluetooth. I cannot speak on keyboard functionality, but i can get my iPhone to play audio through my HP laptop speakers. handy for when i want to listen to a book with better audio than on my iPhone.
That is done with Bluetooth and Phone Link.
So you should absolutely be able to get audio onto your Mac the same way with Mirroring.
Best of luck. 🙂
There is an app I discovered…
There is an app I discovered but forgot the name when I was disappointed with iphone mirroring whose aim is exactly that, push mac keyboard to iphone. With airpods connected it's, certainly a better experience than iphone mirroring they're probably not gonna fix anytime soon.
@Mert Ozer
If you want to hear your phones audio from your Mac, open QuickTime player and from the menu, choose new audio recording if you just want sound. Choose new movie recording if you want video as well. You don’t have to record if you don’t want to.
From the select capture device pop-up menu, select your iPhone in the list. There is a volume slider which might be set to zero. Increase that and you will be able to hear your phone from your Mac.