Apple has announced many new features at WWDC 2024, one of them being iPhone Mirroring. I’ve been using iPhone Mirroring for a few days now and I fell in love with it. It’s very handy for quick notification checks without picking up your iPhone. You can even get notifications from your iPhone on your Mac using iPhone Mirroring. If you click on the notification, it opens it in iPhone Mirroring. To set up iPhone Mirroring, make sure your Mac is updated to macOS Sequoia Developer Beta 2 and your iPhone is updated to iOS 18 Developer Beta 2. Additionally, make sure both your iPhone’s and Mac’s App Store account regions are set to the US or Switzerland (I only tried the US, but I heard Switzerland works on Twitter) as it’s blocked in the EU.

In some cases, when you’re in the EU (like me, for example), it also helps to turn off Location Services for these System Services.

Once that’s done, you are ready to explore and use iPhone Mirroring! Open the app from your dock (if it’s there) or from the Applications folder. Next, follow the instructions on the screen, which involve unlocking your iPhone, and enjoy iPhone Mirroring!

After setting up iPhone Mirroring and unlocking your iPhone once, you’ll see the connection screen (image on the left). If you now hover over the top of the window, you will see two buttons appear (video on the right), button one being the Home Button and the second one being the App Switcher Button. Clicking them does exactly what you would guess, returning the iPhone to the home screen or opening the App Switcher.