Own a Mac & iPhone? 12 Tricks You NEED to Try!

okay most people already know that you can select and copy some text on your Mac and paste it straight on your iPhone but what many don't realize is that this also works with pictures videos and other documents which you can also copy and paste across your devices now that's just one of the magical ways you can use your Mac and iPhone together and I promise you'll be surprised by how much time you save once you discover the rest oh and for all the following matx to work you don't need a magic wand just make sure your Mac and iPhone are signed into the same Apple ID and are nearby with Wi-Fi and blue Bluetooth enor if you're on a website on your Mac but must urgently leave your desk you can easily pass the website onto your iPhone to keep reading or watching just swipe up on your home screen to get to the app switcher and tap the Safari hand of banner at the bottom now this works with any website Side open on your Mac plus even with other browser apps like Chrome or Edge oh and of course the other way around too got a website open on your iPhone then you find it in the right hand side of your Mac stock so you can open it with one click now this head of feature has more surprises up its sleeve but before we go any further let's quickly take 10 seconds to make sure it's switched on on your devices in the settings app on iPhone go to General and then AirPlay and hand off here tap the toel on the Mac it's basically the same general and then airdrop and handoff and as promised handoff gets even more amazing when we use it with other stuff like a note an email Maps or iMessage chat it basically works with any Apple app and many third party apps that support both an iPhone and Mac version just make sure you've got it installed on both devices but that's just the tip of the iceberg you see the thing that makes the app ecosystem so crazy useful isn't one particular feature it's the key idea that we don't have to think about which device will use for which task because we can at any time switch over to a Mac iPhone or iPad and pick up exactly where we left off all within just a mere second I mean just for example if you take any call on your iPhone you'll always automatically find a phone icon in the max menu bar click it and you can fluently switch over the ongoing call to your Mac without any Interruption and you might be thinking all right that's great but only works with Apple's FaceTime but that's not true we can even take and place any mobile phone call right on the Mac when your iPhone is Within Reach let's quickly switch it on in the iPhone settings by scrolling down to phone and then going to cards on other devices here tap the toggle next to your Mac and from now on you can take any incoming phone call right from here here good morning and thank you for joining us plus we can rightclick any phone number to dial it or in this one's a bit hidden type any phone number into Spotlight search and we can call it right from there oh and before I forget this whole concept also works with text messages back to the iPhone settings right below phone there's the messages menu tap text message forwarding and again you can add your Mac to the list meaning you now send and get SMS messages directly on your Mac which is especially useful for those two Factor authentication codes I mean when they finally arrive after you've clicked resend twice and then it's the wrong code but yeah it works for that and you might have missed this next one because it came to the Mac just a few months ago if you right click the desktop and choose edit widgets you not just find Mac apps here but also all your iPhone apps this isn't useful in every instance but just for example we can add a snapmaps calorie counter or Forest timer widget right onto the Mac desktop and you see constantly updated info from the apps on your iPhone without picking up your iPhone if you want to take this to the next level if you own a Mac with an M1 M2 or M3 chip in its belly you can use most of your iPad and iPhone apps nearly natively on your Mac there's a special section for this in the Mac App Store click your name and then filter for iPhone and iPad apps and then simply download any of those apps even if they normally don't have a Mac OS version I mean this opens up a lot of possibilities if you're currently looking to buy one of those high quality webcams stop right now because if you own an iPhone you've basically already got one of the highest quality external webcams for your Mac in any FaceTime Zoom or teams call so wherever you want to switch on your camera choose your iPhone from the menu it uses the rare camera lens and works without any cable connection just over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi you can then also do things like enable the build in part train mode or Studio lighting and your might can do even more with your iPhone's camera right click any Pages document note or find a window and choose import from iPhone or iPad this will automatically pop up your iPhone's camera which you can then use to scan a paper document tap done and it's instantly saved to your Mac super fast Oh and before I forget let me just mention that you can also choose to import a sketch which would pop up a notepad on your iPhone or iPad take your time to draw your Masterpiece tap done and again it's directly pasted on your Mac it's a work of art that is or if you hit the space bar on any PDF or image to open it in quick look you can get up The annotation toolbar and then again choose your iPhone or iPad this time the actual document will pop up on your other device where you can add annotations or a signature and watch the changes happen in real time on your Mac Oh and back on the Mac I like to do more advanced edits like erasing some confidential text merging this one and a few other PDFs with one click and then quickly dragging the document to my dock to instantly send them to print thank you but those features are story for another time I mean for right now if you watch this video next with 50 actually useful Mac tips in less than 11 concise minutes all right I will see you there thank you so much for watching and have an amazing day

Channel: MacVince

Views: 283,140

Keywords: mac iphone continuity, continuity features mac, continuity camera, continuity features iphone, mac iphone ecosystem, apple ecosystem, use mac and iphone, universal clipboard

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Length: 6min 50sec (410 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 28 2024