On November 11, 2020, When Apple released the M1 chip MacBook series and MacMini, I marveled at the doubled performance improvement. When I looked at the second-hand 19 models of 16-inch MacBook Pro I just bought, I could not help but drool with regret.

Two months later, in the middle of January, it was the time when everything was thriving and the fund was booming. I pinched my fingers and found that the fund stock had earned nearly 7K in this month. If I didn’t buy it at this time, it would be better when. After more than a week, about January 23, I finally received the goods in fengchao Express box.

Let’s get down to business:

We know there’s a Sidecar between the new MacOS and iPadOS that allows the iPad to expand into a MacBook display, which is a nice addition to the Air and Pro lines, and for the MacMini, saves the cost of a display.

But there is a problem. For Sidecar, you need to select iPad in the UI to connect, which means:

Plan a

We need to connect the MacMini to a monitor first, and then turn on Sidecar to disconnect the monitor and connect to the iPad independently, but I’m not going to pull my pants off and fart.

Scheme 2

This is also a slightly better solution found on the Internet. First use the Duet in the Apple Store to access the desktop through a wired connection, then connect to Sidecar, and then disconnect the wired connection and Duet. In addition to Duet, there is also support for apps that connect directly to MacOS desktops. Remote desktop apps like TeamViewer, Sunflower, VNC Viewer, etc., are very close to what Sidecar can do on MacMini. The Ipad can be used as one of its monitors, the only difference being the stability of the connection.

Plan 3

Here, our protagonist appears, that is the VNC Viewer software. The MacOS screen sharing feature allows other MacOS devices to share screens and operate remotely by entering a VNC address in a browser and directly accessing their remote desktop. To use this feature on the iPad, you need to download the software in advance, enter the VNC address of the device you want to control in the Safari address bar, and then enter a preset password to connect to the MacMini remotely.

One advantage of using VNC Viewer is that there is no need to download additional software on the MacMini side, such as TeamViewer and Sunflower, which need to be downloaded and installed again on the MacMini. VNC is a software integrated with MacMini. Only need to “System Settings -> Sharing -> Screen Sharing” open and configured to use.

supplement

Plan 3 requires MacMini and iPad to be under the same LAN, so MacMini can automatically connect to Wifi or plug in network cable after boot. In the same LAN, if you can SSH to MacMini, you can also use the command line to enable VNC service, use this command

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -clientopts -setvncpw  -restart -agent -privs -all -vncpw mypasswd
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The final mypasswd can be changed to your desired VNC password.

The last

After using this method to connect to MacMini, we can go to the system Settings of the navigation to connect to our iPad, and finally began to happily swipe the iPad version of B station and the iOS version of Tiktok.