hello everyone welcome to another tutorial from windowslovers.com and
today in this tutorial i'm going to show you how you can use your ipad
as a second display or an additional display in
windows 10 for free. So let's get started
The application that i'm going to use in this video is called spacedesk server
and there's different reasons why i use spacedesk.
Today in this tutorial i'm going to show you how to download
install and set up spacedesk server so that you can use your ipad as external
monitor, external display or use it as an additional
monitor if you're looking for a much more productive setup without
investing in another pair monitor. I've used dual pro
and duet air to connect my ipad pro to my laptop which is running windows 10
home edition before. And I've got to say that for the price
you pay, you don't really get the same value as a
customer when you use duet pro and duet air
which are premium apps which you can use to connect your ipad as a external
monitor or a wireless external monitor.
There's different things you can do with duo pro but the main reason why
anyone gets a duet pro and duet air is to connect the ipad as
a external monitors but more on that later why i do not use duet pro. f
For now i'm going to show you how to download spacedesk,
where to download spacedesk from and how to set it up so that you can you can use
your ipad as a secondary monitor. First,
let's go to spacedesk.net and click on download. This works for
your ios devices as well but i'm going to demonstrate on how to use this on
windows 10 and an ipad. So i'm going to go and
download now. I'm going to select windows 10 64 bit
you've got to make sure you have the correct version for your
windows, i have windows 10 64-bit so i'm going to download windows 10
64 bit. It's only about 5 megabits.
So I'm gonna click on it, click on next, accept the terms
agreement, install, next um it says to add an exception to the
windows file for this space desk you can select it or you can exclude it
later but i'm just going to leave it. Click on
install YES!
and installation has been completed i'm going to click on finish.
so now you won't see the spacedesk app anywhere. so what you're going to do is
search for spacedesk server or just spacedesk.
and you will see the spacedesk server app click on it
and as you can see the computer that's your computer name.
and status is on and connection zero so that's your server has been set up
so the next thing you need to do is you gotta go and download spacedesk
on your iPad so just go to app store
search for spacedesk so once spacedesk is downloaded on your
ipad, open spacedesk. You gotta make sure that
your computer and your ipad are connected on the same
wi-fi so that your ipad will pick up your
spacedesk server. So as you can see it's showing me
the connection so i'm gonna tapap on it and
so you will hear a chime and now you can see the iPad has been
connected as a secondary display for my windows 10
setup. so what i can do now is i can go and
change the settings on my computer so you can see there's
two displays number one is my main monitor and number two is my
ipad pro. so what i can do is i can select my
display number two and as you can see i can select a higher resolution. So if i
select that,
keep changes and as you can i can set up any way i want and click on apply
and on the ipad you can see that it's very
tiny what i'm going to do now is change it to about 175 percent so that
would be easier for me to see what's on the ipad
screen because it's only an ipad 11 inch version. Now going back to why i
don't use um do it pro or do it air is the first
thing is a price. um i paid 14.99 AUD
to download or install duetpro which gave me an option to connect my
ipad to the windows 10 setup with a usb cable. But the problem was the
display wasn't very good, the quality of the resolution
was very bad so after that what happens is your ipad
does not charge from a laptop. So every time i used to
use my ipad as a secondary monitor from my computer
then it would run out of charge. So
now i had to find another way to do it wirelessly so
duet air was another option so i paid the 29.49 per year uh it was just a
trial version so after using it for like few weeks or
one and a half weeks i uninstalled it and i canceled my trial
membership because it was very very bad. They promise you a 60 fps
display but i never got that so after searching for some
time i came across spacedesk and i've been using spacedesk
since then and it's fantastic. I can use it while i'm charging my
ipad and it's very high quality so i hope this video helped you and how to
use your ipad as a external monitor please make sure you give this video a
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any other suggestions on better apps that you might be using
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