Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and apple introduced universal control last year at wwdc
as part of the mac os monterey and ipad os 15 updates apple has added it with the latest betas
of mac os 12.3 and ipad os 15.4 so it's currently in beta but should be out to the public usually
within one to two months now as far as supported devices if you're wondering what device works with
this well if you have a mac macbook macbook pro 2016 and later a macbook air you'll need 2018 and
later an imac 2017 or later as well as a 5k retina imac 27 inch late 2015 or later it works with an
imac pro mac mini 2018 and later as well as the latest mac pro 2019 as far as ipads ipad pro ipad
air third generation and later ipad 6th generation and later and ipad mini 5th generation and later
as long as you have one of those devices or a combination of them as you see here with the ipad
pro on the left and the 9th generation ipad on the right and this is an m1 macbook pro 13 inch in the
middle so this will work on these and we can go across all devices now make sure this is enabled
if you want to try it out usually it is by default but if we go to system preferences go to displays
then click on advanced under advanced you'll see at the top it says allow your cursor and
keyboard to move between any nearby mac or ipad it says it's in beta and then the other
option that's nice is push through the edge of the display to connect a nearby mac or ipad so
we have that option and then you can also have it automatically reconnect to any nearby mac or ipad
as long as that's turned on on your mac there's also a setting on the ipad as well so if we go
to the ipad let's just turn this down a little bit we'll go to settings under settings go to general
and what you can see here is it says cursor and keyboard beta make sure that's turned on
and then this should work now keep in mind it is currently in beta so it can be a little bit buggy
and sometimes not connect instantly sometimes it works great sometimes it doesn't but you will need
to have wi-fi and bluetooth on beyond the same icloud account and let's go ahead and try it out
so now we'll drag to the left here give it just a moment you'll see there it goes it
pops through and it's on the left on the ipad pro now again if i go to the right we want to do the
same thing with this ipad and there we go it pops into the ipad and now we're controlling the cursor
across all three displays so it works pretty seamlessly and just works as expected however
you have a great option of using the trackpad or mouse on the other other devices so on the ipad
i've got a logitech trackpad and keyboard i can use this one go all the way over to this ipad and
click on things or navigate through the ipad the same is true with the magic keyboard so again i
can control it from the left go all the way to the right and maybe on the mac go to safari and then
type apple and it just works so you can use any of these as well as third-party track pads and
mice and the magic trackpad works as well so if you have these paired maybe you have it on
a third-party display it will work seamlessly between all these devices another thing you
can do though is drag and drop files between the devices now if you're dragging directly to a mac
it's pretty simple you just go into maybe a files app within files you'll see i have one here we'll
go to done and we'll drag this over to the desktop drop it on the desktop and now it's on the desktop
of the mac the same is true when we go back to the other or the other direction so let's close out
files and maybe drag it into notes so within notes we've got a blank note we'll take this image here
drag it over to notes and now it's in notes so you'll see that works pretty seamlessly although
when you're dragging something onto an ipad you need to have an app that's going to receive that
file but again it works the other way as well we can drag it all the way across to this device so
if we go on this ipad here maybe we'll go to on my ipad then on the ipad on the left maybe we'll grab
this file here so again we'll grab this drag it across multiple devices here and drag it over to
the ninth generation ipad now sometimes it's not going to work a hundred percent as it seems to
have some issues from time to time as you can see i'm having some issues with this there we go we'll
just split it get rid of that and let's maybe try the same thing one more time so we'll grab this
i just want well we'll grab this one again drag it across over to this ipad and it's not working
as intended across the ipads but you should be able to do it in the future and it does seem to
work pretty well now again keep in mind this is in beta now i did have someone ask me will it
work with apple pencil and i've not found a way to do that so you can't really use an apple pencil to
control it across the device at least from what i've tried so that's how universal control works
it's pretty seamless and a great feature although it is a little buggy from time to time sometimes
it doesn't connect i had some issues connecting to the ipad 9th generation originally but otherwise
it works great and should be available hopefully within a month or so although apple will let us
know when it's time for ios 15.4 and ipad os 15.4 and mac os 12.3 if you'd tried this out i'd love
to hear from you in the comments below how it's working for you and what device you're using it on
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