One of the iPhone's greatest assets is its connectivity. Built into Apple products are several ways to share what you're viewing or working on from your iPhone to a Mac.
This can be useful if you want to display a photo album or app on your computer, stream music from Apple Music or Spotify from an iPhone to your Mac, or play video content directly from iPhone apps like Hulu. You can even record whatever you're doing on your phone when you're screen mirroring from iPhone to Mac.
Quick tip: When screen mirroring from iPhone to Mac, videos can only be streamed, but you can transfer videos between an iPhone and a Mac with AirDrop, iCloud, and iTunes.
There are various ways to mirror your iPhone to your Mac, however, the easiest way is to either use the QuickTime app on your Mac or the Screen Mirroring feature on your iPhone, which uses AirPlay.
Here's how to do both.
How to mirror your iPhone to a Mac with QuickTime
1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac using a Lightning to USB cable.
2. Open QuickTime on your Mac.
3. Click on File in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
4. Click New Movie Recording.
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