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Can you elaborate on why it's nice? How do I do multi-touch gestures with a single cursor? Is the main benefit be able to use iPhone apps on a bigger screen? Can iPhone apps display more content (maybe let the app pretend it's being displayed on an iPad or at least a larger screen than the physical screen size)?

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95% of my phone usage doesn’t require multi touch gestures and now I can do that from my laptop when I’m already working in it

At least in Sonoma, Screen Time requests crash Messages, fail to work properly on iPadOS, but work fine on iPhone. Now I can approve requests without having to dig my phone out my pocket. A small convenience, but I can’t expect them to fix Screen Time on macOS any time soon.

> How do I do multi-touch gestures with a single cursor?

The same way you do them on Mac. With a trackpad.

But with a trackpad you cannot see what you are touching. You see a single cursor on the screen. If you touch two things on your iPhone you know exactly which two things you are manipulating. With a single cursor on the Mac, no matter how many fingers you use you only manipulate one thing.

This seems to me a difficult challenge in mashing up the wildly different interaction paradigms. I'd love to see how Apple solves it in their new feature.

Okay? In what scenario is that an issue

Imagine a game that's supposed to played with a landscape orientation. Your left hand control (up/down/left/right) is located on the lower left corner. Your right hand control (A/B/X/Y) is located on the lower right corner. You are expected to touch two controls simultaneously.

Why would you use iPhone Mirroring for this

I don't even like Apple as a company but I have high expectations of their products and I assume their product is meticulously designed for a variety of use cases. Why should I as a consumer expect half-assed implementations? Just because all software are half-assed these days?

Apple says "With iPhone Mirroring, users can now fully access and engage with their iPhone right from Mac while iPhone remains locked nearby." And nowhere does Apple say this feature doesn't work for games.

I guess I just don't follow why you'd discount an entire feature for such a minor, niche reason but you do you

I didn't discount anything. Where did I say that? I merely have high expectations and I'm asking about the feature and whether it satisfies the high expectations, and if so, how. This is called curiosity.

I'm never the kind of person who discounts a feature before I even use it. And I clearly said I haven't used it.

This was a painful journey to read. I cant take my wasted time back, but I can waste more letting you know that youve got a blindspot in your mirror

this is so asinine. reassess your expectations for a corporate monolith that only cares about money. You should expect half assed implementations from a corporate board beholden to only a profit directive.

Zooming into a map, a picture, a webpage, or quite frankly most things would be rather awkward if you didn’t know where it would zoom in (or if it would always zoom into the center of the screen, for instance).

As another comment mentioned, it appears to use the cursor position as the pinch-gesture location.

I'll give you an example, having used it: if you want to zoom something, it will take effect where the mouse pointer on the screen is.

same way you do it in the iphone simulator - you hold the option key and the mouse button, and move the mouse up or down to simulate pinch to zoom.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1696762?sortBy=rank

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