Andrew O'Hara
In the latest update to macOS, Apple is adding official native support for utilizing an iPad running iOS 13 as an external monitor.
As rumored, Apple has now empowered users to use their iPad as a second display with the latest macOS 10.15 Catalina.
The new feature is called Sidecar and it works both wireless and wired with macOS Catalina and iOS 13. Additionally, Apple Pencil can be used as an input as well, similar to other sketch tablets for the Mac.
Many apps will already support iPad tablet supportAny current app that already supports sketch tablets such as the Intuous or Wacom tablets will support sketching with Apple Pencil.
This comes on the heels of Apple's announcement of their new pro monitor, the Pro Display XDR.
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I am so happy it's bringing that feature to MacOS!
Cue the "Apple is destroying yet another 3rd party developer's life!" rants.
IF you get to try this at WWDC, could you report on the performance, frame rate, colour accuracy, resolution and latency? I’ve been looking forward to this since the iPad! Finally!
This is a feature that seemed like an obvious workflow the very first time we saw an iPad. I can’t believe it took this long to materialize. I’m glad it has, though!
I do feel bad for the devs that filled the gap Apple left, but that’s tempered by the joy of having this capability hard-wired into the system.
So I guess the makers of Duet have been Watson/Sherlocked.