Apple's New Universal Control Feature for Macs Feels Like Magic

Curious to see what happens going the opposite direction, I plugged in a SteelSeries gaming mouse into the iPad mini’s USB-C port and pushed the circular icon across the invisible bridge. This time, the icon vanished from the tablet and reappeared as an arrow on the Mac. I happily discovered that the iPad could still be controlled by touch while the mouse—which, I should say

, was plugged into the tablet—moved the MacBook cursor. To retake control of the MacBook, I simply swiped on the trackpad and its rightful cursor returned .Dragging and dropping files was no different. I uploaded a couple of photos of this setup to the MacBook Pro’s desktop and moved them over to the Files app on the iPad mini with a simple click and swipe of the trackpad. The file appeared instantly.

briefly and quickly resolved itself, but I can’t quite pinpoint what might have caused it. I also wonder what Apple suggests users do when they don’t want their cursor jumping between devices, especially since I discovered that the feature worked with the devices on opposite sides of the room. Sure, you can turn it on and off, but that’s an inelegant solution that undermines what makes Universal Control so compelling: its ease of use.

On Windows and Mac, ShareMouse does this for more than a decade:

I love how excited iOS users are for something as basic as dual monitors 💀

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