This is a you-see-what-I-see setup and keeps all apps and programs confined within a single defined virtual space despite appearing on two displays.Įxtend stretches the desktop across two screens. In Mirror Mode, the second display merely mirrors the primary display.
Like Windows 10, MacOS handles multiple displays in two ways. Step 4: Select Show Touch Bar or Hide Touch Bar. Step 3: Select Show Sidebar or Hide Sidebar. Step 2: Select Mirror Built-In Retina Display to copy the desktop or Use as Separate Display to extend the desktop to the iPad. Step 1: Click the Display icon located on the menu bar. To mirror the Mac’s screen or make additional changes, do the following: Step 1: Click the System Preferences icon on the Dock.Įnable or disable double-tap with the Apple Pencil. You can access these settings at any time by doing the following: You can make changes to the Sidecar settings before closing the panel. Easy, right? Now you can enjoy a larger desktop, and if you take a screenshot, MacOS grabs both screens, not just the primary display connected to your Mac. Your Mac’s desktop should extend to the iPad’s screen by default. Select Show Mirroring Options in the Menu Bar when available. Step 3: If you don’t see the AirPlay icon, do the following:Ĭlick the System Preferences icon on the Dock. Step 2: Select your iPad on the drop-down menu. Step 1: Click the AirPlay icon displayed on the menu bar. Instructions for MacOS 10.15 Catalinaįollow these instructions for MacOS Catalina. Step 3: Select your iPad listed under the Connect To heading.
Step 1: Click the Control Center icon on the menu bar. Instructions for MacOS Big Sur 11 and laterįollow these instructions for MacOS Big Sur or later. Sidecar does not rely on a physical wired connection. Also, be sure to connect the iPad to an electrical outlet or USB charging port given that the constant screen use will drain the battery.
To use Sidecar, make sure the Mac and iPad are logged in with the same Apple ID. To see if your Apple devices are compatible, here’s the official list: The only problem is that Sidecar doesn’t work on all Macs and iPads. It beats having to buy an expensive second display if you already own Apple’s premium tablet, as it has a fantastic display of its own. The Sidecar feature first introduced in MacOS Catalina allows Mac owners to extend or mirror their primary display to an iPad. Instructions for MacOS Big Sur 11 and later.But if you want a unified display, then disable PBP and connect using a single cable, at which point you should end up with a single 5120x1440 display to work with. The entire point of PBP is to divide the display, most often so that you can run each tile from completely separate systems. But now you seem to want to use the entire display as a single unit, and you're claiming that not being able to do so defeats the point of PBP.
You originally came here asking how to split your display into two separate sections, and the answer is to use PBP. I don't think you can have a single menu bar that spans what the system believes to be multiple independent displays.īut if you want a single spanned menu bar and the the ability to span application windows across the entire display area, then I'm not sure why you're using PBP in the first place. In terms of the menu bar, if the system believes there are two separate displays, it will have separate instances of the menu bar on each display. But maybe that was necessary to allow a single application window to cross displays borders, since I can see how allowing each display to be switched to different Spaces independently might be tricky if you're also spanning content across display borders. The option to have displays use separate Spaces pertains mostly to the Spaces virtual desktop feature of macOS, described here. It's probably possible to manually drag the corners of an application window to cause it to span across the two "displays" (tiles in this case), but double-clicking the application title bar to maximize the window will cause the OS to size the application window to fill the display area - which in this case will be the entire tile area. It has no idea that they are part of the same physical display unit. You have to keep in mind that in your setup, the system believes these are two completely different displays connected.