Apple’s Universal Control vs Sidecar Explained
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- čas přidán 31. 01. 2022
- As of iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3, both currently in beta, Apple has introduced support for Universal Control, the long-awaited feature that's designed to allow multiple Macs and iPads to be controlled with a single mouse and keyboard. How is it different than Apple's other feature Sidecar? In this video, we go over everything you need to know about Universal Control.
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the thing is non apple ppl don't understand and always say things like this on similar features.
the difference is that when apple is doing it actually works effortless natively.
os and hardware changes will not destroy the workflow it is a feature oyu can rely on.
well....
i think this is revolutionary once ironed out, love it!
I am heavily invested in Apple ecosystem snd I can see myself using this feature. Best part is dragging files between devices, very handy.
err.. u need to sign in same icloud.. don’t u hv enuff icloud storage? or icloud drive for u to access those docs?
if u were heavily invested, i’d assume u already hv 200gb at least on icloud. turn it on.
why u wanna drag files from separate devices?
I have mac, iphone, Apple Watch and airpods, just not a iPad
That’s true, but it’s still a neat extra option to have when trying to move a document from a MacBook to an iMac/iPad. iCloud Drive works well, but I’d say that this works better.
Sometimes the files can be a little tricky to maneuver through the iCloud Drive. Also photos and automatic backups can oftentimes eat up a large portion of that iCloud memory, so this adds an extra layer of convenience.
Whoever likes to act like they’ve been using it for years and how ridiculous it is that we’re excited about it … 90% of them are trolling and the remaining 10% are not worth your time. So in reality, 100% of them should just be ignored.
Love the content and I’m super excited with Universal Control! Can’t wait for it to be GA.
Really clear and concise explanation, very helpful!
Great video! I appreciate the way you broke this down.
I am so excited for this update, as someone who is a designer/creative moving files between devices is going to help me SO much because airdrop for me doesn't always work and then I have to go play find the problem. lol.
Very helpful
This feature is huge, great video :)
man im loving my first mac which i got a week ago. if apple products work for you, you can never go back.. such nice integration with my other apple devices. it is literally making me use my iphone and my ipad in a more productive way. gamechanger for me personally
I’ve been using UC since the betas were released last week. For me it’s an amazing feature and It definitely helps with the efficiency of my workflow.
This is SO useful and a good glimpse of the future of how devices work together. Does dragging a file or something from once device to another work as well?
Yes. But the iPad has to receive it via an app. You cannot copy it in the homepage, because of how iPadOS works
As someone who uses iPad and MacBook for work, I am excited to have this feature in full version! Finally, no need for additional keyboard for iPad as I don't like to use multiple accessories while working. 😂
I can't risk using beta, since I only have one iPad and one Mac as main drivers and users say that it is not advisable to do it. Can't wait for this to be released soon! 😊
this feature popped up and surprised me when I was using blender and was pulling a value to the right then all of a sudden my mouse was on the ipad. Now I am using it to shoot instagram vids of myself tracking vocals and playing guitar. Set the ipad up in selfie video mode a bit far a way and just use the mouse and keyboard I cam controlling Mac with to start the video. For simple throw away videos it simplifies things a lot. So how do you use the ipad as a sidecar type device now?
I'm a Teleprompter for security reasons, I normally use two mac (master & backup) at the same time with the same program open. Can I use one of the mouse wheel to change the text scrolling speed on both machines at the same time?
What iPads are supported? As long as it can be updated to 15.4?
This is the typical move my random internet community on web. When Apple brings something, they work on usability and make it polished, not like they are innovating something new from the ground except a few, but they innovate usability/functionality. So, anything apple brings is compared to other existing systems, but people do not want to admit or hardly observe what kind of trade off is happening here. Apple will do anything to make a walled garden and they have been doing it for years. And they are successful in doing so. Users are happy because it works for them.
I think one of the main draws of this is that, not only is it built into the OS by default, but you can use ANY third party keyboard and mouse to do this. You don’t need to install third party apps or use third party devices, and it works between iPads and Macs.
Can you control the Mac from your iPad without the Magic Keyboard or trackpad?
Will this be my solution for using my 5K 27" iMac as a monitor for my new M1 max MacBook Pro?
For some reason there is major delay when I move my cursor to my iPad. I am using a mbp M1 and iPad pro 2020 and have a very good stable wifi connection with blue tooth off? How is everyone running this with barely any input lag? Thank you
Does it work with an external monitor?
I do not yet own a macbook but I do have an ipad, and I work for a software company that is PC exclusive (for the moment). I currently use logitech devices and Flow to spread my work across three PC devices (a desktop, a laptop and a surface tablet). It's always bothered me that Logitech seemingly won't release some sort of app for the ipad that would bring Flow to the device. I'm saving up for a macbook when the M2 chips are announced. I wonder...if I were to swap out Flow on one of the devices, say the Surface tablet, for the macbook, would I then be able to use Universal Control to further extend my keyboard and mouse to my ipad? So Left to right it might be: PC Desktop -> PC Laptop -> Macbook -> iPad.
Just curious. If not then no big deal but if yes then that will give me even more options for my current desktop workflow while at the office.
Does Universal Control work with third party IPad Keyboard such as the Logitech Combo Touch keyboard to Macs? I am thinking of getting a Mac Mini but don’t want to get additional keyboard and mouse.
So if you are in universal control, how do you switch to sidecar and then back?
Does universal control work well with devices that have VPN? I have logitechflow enabled devices but they don't work with well with VPN.
Will this feature be available for iPhone? If not, then it needs to be done
And to manage how to alternate between these two functions, I would sometimes use Sidecar and sometimes universal control. (traslator)
can you use the iPad touch screen to control your Mac in UC?
can you help me with some information please? I don't understand why the apple pencil doesn't work on my ipad when I connect the macbook to the tablet by mirroring the screen
Does the iPad Pro work at 120hz as Sidecar with the thunderbolt 4 cable? On an Apple store they've told me it will, but I read a couple of reddit posts that it does not display the 120hz even with that $130 thunderbolt 4 cable...
Is there an ability to use a iPad as a touch screen display for a Mac?
Question, I saw a demo setup of a MacBook Pro connected to a Studio Display using a Thunderbolt cable and I was able to drag & drop files/windows from one to another… So that was Universal Control? Not Sidecar?
If you have 2 iPads can you use one side car and one universal control?
Does the current beta for Universal Control wake the iPad/Mac from sleep should you push the cursor to their direction? I haven't seen this answered yet and I really wish this was the case. Thanks.
It does not right now. At least not for me which is a slight bummer at the moment
@@macrumors As a developer or a person with access to the developer software, would you be able to file this as a bug? Or is this something closer to a feature request? Thanks.
What about the audio? I want to use both the Mac and the iPad, but I want to listen to both through my headphones, that are connected to the Mac.. I couldn't figure it out yet, since using the iPad as audio input feature is greyed out in the Mac once you activate the universal control.. for me it's a deal breaker :(
Do you have any ideas? Thanks!
What does people use a mouse for on the iPad if you have a Mac? I feel like extending the Mac screen is more useful for most people.
It’s useful if you have an iPad-specific app that is not available on the Mac.
Plus even if the app exists in both OS, it’s better to utilize iPad hardware than to share the Mac’s resources.
Is there a limit to how many devices can share the keyboard/mouse? I see 3 in most videos but will it do 4 or more?
I don’t know if there is a limit, but I’ve seen someone using 5 devices.
I have encountered issues with universal control and sidecar conflicting with each other. It is unclear to me how to resolve this issue.
Dose anyone have wireless sidecar on iPad frozen every one or two days and restarting iPad stops freezing temporarily?
Should sidecar work in clamshell mode?
Does this work with all ipads? Or is this only compatible with the newer ones?
Anyone running iPadOS 15.4
Conceptually Speaking,
SIDECAR : is a Mirror Display Feature with a singular INPUT control option. Or Simply an external display but also NOT COMPROMISING the Native Functionality.
UNIVERSAL CONTROL: is a Limited Functionality but similar to the SIDECAR without Screen Mirroring but TWO OR MORE DEVICE 'CONTROL FEATURE' and FILE SHARING Without EXTENDING ONE TERMINAL DISPLAY TO OTHER and Vice Versa.
SIDECAR is Similar to Remote Desktop but without Minimum of TWO END's Processing/ Computational Power but With ONLY ONE PROCESSING POWER is Enough.
Can you screenshare your ipad display, lets say on a Zoom call for instance, using UC?
That’s already possible through zoom alone
i swear i saw this at an apple store years ago where a macbook and imac were using the same mouse
Can you drag files, from the files app on the iPad, to the Mac?
Yes you can!
when will this be available to include iPhone....
how is it different from sidecar ?
I heard universal control wrecks cloud gaming. Is it true? Any of y’all experienced problems
I just never use keyboard and mouse/trackpad with my iPad, so that functionality isn't of much use to me. I do, however, use multiple Macs and a PC on a multi-monitor setup; so I use a Logitech Flow setup. It's great because there is no "master" device - unlike Synergy or Universal Control on one Mac, if I turn off *ANY* of the devices, my keyboard and mouse still work on the others.
If I were a 100% Mac setup, or I didn't prefer to use an external keyboard, this would be great. Although... I do have a MacBook Pro that _isn't_ one of the three devices in my Logitech Flow setup that occasionally gets used "alongside" the others on my desk - I guess I can use Universal Control to use my Logitech keyboard and mouse on that by Universal Control'ing over from the Mac Mini...
Oh wow, I literally just typed up a comment here asking if this works. Have you tested it? Does it extend your keyboard and mouse beyond the 3 device limit?
@@WilliamSteppan I have tested it with an iPad just to see if it works, and it does. It works exactly as it does on any Mac/iPad combo - the keyboard and mouse are still connected to the Mac, with the Mac sending the commands to the iPad. So unlike Logitech’s “Flow” system, you can’t turn off the Mac and still have the keyboard and mouse work on the iPad.
Very logical
Does it work with iPhone aswell
Mac os not ios
My side car is working, but universal control doesn't
iPad pro and MacBook Pro 2018
Weird.
00:37. Every time you describe as a way to “control multiple devices with one singular keyboard and mouse,” you’re completely ignoring file sharing, which is a huge component of the feature set. That’s why people get confused.
I had exactly this question too! If you can share files then that is hugely useful without having to set up network shares, use iCloud drop-boxes etc.
@@johngwheeler yeah you can share files! Just drag and drop them it’s amazing!
Save money for not buying other keyboards or trackpad…but ended up buying new macs as the old ones will not work 😂
Best way to look at it: SIDECAR is "display device" sharing ... UC is "input device" sharing.
one mouse to rule them all...
I'll say i'm excited bc as opposed to logitech flow this looks like it might actually work without any delay or other fuckery
Flow is so irksome for me, I rely on it to work across three devices at my office (a PC desktop, PC laptop and a surface tablet) and it has no issues switching between laptop and tablet, but going from laptop to desktop there's usually a delay, and about half the time it doesn't "bring" the keyboard with it, and usually when it does that I then can't bring the mouse back over to the laptop.
Shouldn't they just be combined into one app?
I like controlling my mac with my ipad as its connected to my monitor so i can do that and universal control does not do that
Interesting - I was controlling 3 screens with a PC "TEN YEARS AGO"
Finally - Apple has caught up❗❗❗
Hate that everyone suddenly talks about universal control like it was released.
thank you and well said - BETA! all the talk should be when the official release has been announced or some other time. people are so strange!
@@javtimestwo lol
Still confused how to properly use sidecar lol.
I LOVE APPLE !!!!!!!!
And then there is stage manager
Sidecar + astropad = ?
So it's just a software version of a KVM like we've been using in server rooms forever. A single Keyboard, Video, and Mouse that you can using on multiple devices. When I was working from home doing software testing on Linux, Windows, and Mac I had about five computers going so using a KVM I could save deskspace.
No it’s more than that, watch the video
I did before I posted
I’d rather have sidecar updated so it allows multiple screens to extend your desktop, i.e two iPads or an iPad or another Mac or MacBook. I don’t see the benefit of universal control
In summary: universal control makes sidecar redundant
One wish, accounts for iPad 😞
Sidecar is ok, no point for universal control, all I need to do is move my finger from one keyboard to the other??????
Well it’s nice to have outside. No need to bring ipad keyboard
Excited?! Dude, you get excited when Apple announces color changes! Calling it an OS update. 🤦
Hush
Meh (sorry) I feel it might be 30% useful. Lets hope this feature will expand into something big otherwise I feel it was just a waste of time with the idea.
this is stupid i think..
why wud u want to control your ipad from a mac? wht cud possibly be on ipad thts not on mac?
i mean, whts the point of having icloud n icloud drive as tht already enable access of photos, music, documents on both devices?
u can even read messages on all devices.. emails.. facetime.. notes.. keynotes..
cud this be a project tht sounds great at launch but not many use it.. like 3D touch.. n eventually be killed off
These peasants don’t know the difference between sidecar and universal control. SMH. 😂 😂 Kidding about the “peasant” part serious about the SMH part. Lol
Again, only works with M1 Macs. Intel Macs are left behind!
No, it's for any Mac built after 2018
It's not necessarily a bad thing because when i force updated theOS on my Mac and PCs(On PC note actually forced), they always crash due to a lack of hardware. I learned the hard way with both my PC and mac wiped to factory reset.
@@legenddairy8346 Not really, you can install Monterey on an Intel Mac but several of the new features only work with M1 Macs
Any Mac with a T2 chip. This includes intel Macs!
@@iPhoneSpy My 2011Air got updates and security patches till 2018 if I'm not wrong. Tried force updating to Mojave and it wrecked my Mac. Mac OS updates and not letting you upgrade are fully for the users' good. I'm pretty sure I'll get a good 5-7 years of full support on my 14inch Pro. You can't say that for PC laptops..
Sure would be nice if this worked an anythingh but the VERY NEVEST hardware. Apple's supporder list is just liies on top of lies. Some of us can't affort to buy a new laptop AND iPad every single year, but I guess that's the perks of being a mllionare.
What a piece of useless technology, there were three computers on that desk, each with it’s own keyboard and trackpad, wouldn’t it be quicker just to move your lazy hands over to the computer you want to control rather slowly dragging a stupid dot across three displays?
I’ve been using sharemouse and synergy for years and they get the job done… but not as impressive as the universal control in my opinion.
My question is whether I can use Airplay and Universal Control at the same time.
For example, I want to mirror my iPad onto the Mac Mini’s monitor using AirPlay and then use the mouse connected to the Mac Mini to control iPad.
Will Universal Control let me do this?
That is an interesting use case