Sidecar has numerous essential features designed for digital creatives working with multiple devices, and digital EPIGRAPHY collected some of the key uses Apple lists on their preview website:Įxtended desktop - Use your iPad as a second display for additional screen space.
Tools and palettes can be manipulated on an iPad while images are referenced on a Mac (Photo by Apple)
However, you can’t just unplug your iPad to go wireless, as doing so will disconnect the display and will require you to quickly reconnect once again through the AirPlay menu. As was demonstrated by AppleInsider in the video below, the transition is very speedy with seamless graphics, even when the iPad is connected wirelessly.
By clicking on your device in the list, both displays will refresh, and you should see your Mac desktop extended to the iPad's display in a matter of mere seconds. If your iPad is either on and near your Mac or plugged in with a Lightning or USB-C cable, it should appear in this menu. Activating the feature doesn’t require any additional software or fiddling around with settings, all you need is clicking on the AirPlay menu on the Mac’s menu bar. To use Sidecar, one will need an iPad (any iPad, even the Mini works!) running the next generation operating system (called iPadOS and also coming in the Fall as a free update) and a Mac (2015 or newer MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Pro) running macOS 10.15 Catalina. Let’s see how Sidecar is going to work and how digital documentation might be able to harness this new feature with the next operating system’s public release in the Fall. Now that the first developer beta of macOS Catalina has been released, we were able to collect some more information about Apple’s take on Astro’s solution. As long-time Astropad users, we already covered the prospects and possible benefits of connecting our iPads wired or wirelessly to act as a second display, however, the additional benefits of system-wide integration are very tempting.
On Monday, during its annual WWDC conference keynote, Apple confirmed a new feature coming in the next macOS (Catalina) called Sidecar. Drawing on a Mac using the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil with the macOS Catalina Sidecar feature (Photo by Apple)
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