You will now see the option to stream to your Mac, which you will be able to do as soon as you enter the AirPlay code which will appear on your Mac’s screen.ĪirServer (£14.99/$14.99) has a free 14-day trial which also has a watermark – although this time the watermark isn’t quite so intrusive.

With Reflector running on your Mac, turn to your iPhone or iPad, open whatever it is you want to stream and tap on the Share icon (the one that’s a square with an arrow coming out of it).

You don’t need to do anything here though.

You won’t see an interface appear, but you should see the Reflector icon in the dock and the Reflector options should appear in the menu.

(If you use the trial version you’ll see watermarks and it will time out after seven days). Otherwise, purchase the software and enter the licence key.

If you are just using the trial you can click on Try Reflector 4.

Download and install the Reflector software on your Mac (you will see a message warning you about installing it, but since we know it to be a legitimate app you should be alright to go ahead and open it).

Set ‘Allow AirPlay for’ to ‘Everyone’ or ‘Anyone on the same network’. If your iPhone, iPad or Mac is older it may still be possible to share content, but it will be a lower resolution. You will need one of the following Macs, iPhones or iPads to take full advantage of the feature:

One of the new features of iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and Monterey when they arrive will be the ability to AirPlay from iPhone or iPad to a Mac’s screen.Įven when this arrives with the new operating system updates at the end of 2021, it not work with every Mac though. There are also a couple of alternative solutions, which we will also discuss. We’re run through how we expect AirPlay to work in Monterey and iOS 15 below.

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