Select it, and then tap the Mirroring switch to On. Your computer will show up as an AirPlay-capable receiver. On the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S, enable AirPlay mirroring: Double-press the Home button to reveal the row of recent apps, swipe left to right to display the playback controls (on the iPhone 4S, you need to swipe twice), and tap the AirPlay button. How It Works - Reflection runs as a regular app under Mac OS X, and once you launch it, you may forget it’s there. Developers can demo iOS software running live on a real device, not in a simulator.Įducators (and authors like me) can finally record video of iOS interactions on the Mac without fussing with extra video capture equipment or jailbreaking the device.Speakers can attach the destination Mac to a projector, so they can both use the iPad untethered and switch to showing Mac applications as necessary.(Another application, AirServer 4.0, reportedly also mirrors an iOS device’s display on a Mac, but I haven’t tried it yet.)įrom the standpoint of someone creating the content to be presented, having the iPad’s screen on a Mac offers a few advantages: Older iOS devices lack the necessary hardware for mirroring. Now that limitation has crumbled with the release of Reflection, a $14.99 Mac OS X app that makes an iPad 2 - and presumably the next iPad model being introduced this week - or iPhone 4S see the Mac as an AirPlay destination. What has been missing from this scenario is the capability to share the iPad (or iPhone 4S) screen on a Mac. The VGA cable was easiest for the Apple Store staff to set up, but I could just as easily have carried the iPad untethered if an Apple TV had been available that’s how I rehearsed at home.īut outside of the living room, I’m guessing you won’t find an Apple TV in most settings (although I’ve read reports that the combination of an iPad and an Apple TV is making inroads into the classroom). That event was still fairly low-tech in the sense that a VGA connection is ancient history compared with the capability, introduced in iOS 5 for the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, to mirror the screen to an Apple TV using Apple’s AirPlay technology. (Actually, that’s not completely correct: I ended up setting my 15-inch MacBook Pro on the lectern just to read my session notes, because I forgot to print them out prior to the presentation.) (Yes, it has been only two years since the iPad’s introduction.) When I gave a talk about iMovie for iOS at the San Francisco Apple Store during Macworld | iWorld in January, I did it entirely from my iPad 2 using the Keynote and iMovie apps the iPad was connected via cables and a VGA Adapter to the store’s audio-visual system. But I had a hard time getting around the disconnect of using a handheld tablet as a presentation device, unless you’re presenting to two people next to you.įast-forward two years. When Apple first introduced Keynote for the iPad, I thought it was a neat proof of concept.
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