Once you select your iPad, Sidecar just quickly displays an extended desktop from your Mac on the iOS device.
As long as your Mac is running macOS 10.15 Catalina, and your iPad is nearby, with Bluetooth and Wifi enabled, and running the iPadOS 13 beta, you just click on the AirPlay icon in your Mac’s Menu bar and it should show up as a display option. But Sidecar is already a game-changer, and one that I will probably have a hard time living without in future – especially on the road.įalling nicely into the ‘it just works’ Apple ethos, setting up Sidecar is incredibly simple. These are beta software products, and I’ve definitely encountered a few bugs including my main Mac display blanking out and requiring a restart (that’s totally fine – betas by definition aren’t fully baked). This is something I’ve been looking to make work since the day the iPad was released, and it’s finally here – and just about everything you could ask for. With the rollout of Apple’s public beta software previews of macOS and the new iPadOS, I’ve finally been able to experience first-hand Sidecar, the feature that lets you use an iPad as an external display for your Mac.
