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Is there a reverse app? I want to control my iphone apps from my mac since typing on iphone is painful and the iphone touchscreen keyboard seems to be less accurate and more laggy over time. And iPhone Mirroring feature is laggy for me for some reason.

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Also iPhone mirroring is still not available in EU :(

Device Hub kinda fixes that w/ iOS 27 and macOS 27 (included with XCode)

Maybe the EU should think about implementing less restrictive legal requirements for innovative technologies...

Maybe someone in the US should sue Apple into stop abusing their market share to lock people into their walled garden of "joy". Also, innovation happens outside/before Apple these days.

What’s iPhone mirroring to a Mac got to do with how Apple’s policies around its App Store work? (To be clear taking 30% and locking out competitors is, in my opinion, overreaching, but I fail to see why this should stop iPhone mirroring being a thing in the EU??)

> What’s iPhone mirroring to a Mac got to do with how Apple’s policies around its App Store

It doesn't, not releasing iPhone mirroring is apple’s malicious compliance with the DMA. They attempted multiple times to turn this into a PR stunt. In this case, it would be a question of making their “Remote Desktop” api available to developers.

TIL. I'm French but live in the UK. Never realised it was a non-EU feature. How come? What's the law that restricts it?

> typing on iphone is painful

I swear it seems to get worse with every new update too. Maddening.

What would an app do that iphone mirroring doesn't?

What iPhone mirroring doesn't in EU. It's not available here.

Work on Windows or Linux.

Even barring the other comments here, phone mirroring sucks. This app is 10x more performant lol

Sidecar? IDK, i don't own an iphone

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