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I’m on a VPN all day for work that doesn’t allow split tunneling (nothing on my local network is accessible when I’m on the VPN). Would an iPad work as a secondary display in this setup? Or does it require a local network connection?

Edit:

Looks like wireless requires network connectivity between the Mac and iPad. But USB presumably does not.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597

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> I’m on a VPN all day for work that doesn’t allow split tunneling (nothing on my local network is accessible when I’m on the VPN).

One workaround for that might be to run your work environment in a VM, then the VPN only controls the network routing inside that not the host machine. In my experience VPNs that “claim” all off-machine traffic don't block more local traffic, so you should still be able to remote to the VM (i.e. using RDC under Windows) from the host OS, and maybe use the remote client's clipboard and filesystem integration to transfer at least text (and maybe other data & files) over the virtual machine boundary.

You can do it over USB but both devices need to be signed into the same iCloud account.

And sidecar doesn't play well with federated setups and managed devices.

If you are on linux (and have sufficient admin rights) you can force the vpn into it's own network space and have other apps in a different one. Doesn't matter if the VPN tries to tunnel everything through itself.

One option would be to run the vpn from a VM?

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