Use your Mac with other devices

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Move seamlessly between your Mac and iPad

With Universal Control, work with one keyboard and mouse or trackpad across devices. When your devices are next to each other, you can enter text, open apps, drag items between devices, and more.

How to use Universal Control

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Use your Mac as a display for your other devices

Use AirPlay to share, present, or play just about anything on your iPhone or iPad—from the latest movies and games to your vacation photos—right on your Mac display.

How to use your Mac as a display

AirPods Max on the left, an iPhone playing a song in Apple Music, and, on the right, a Mac playing a TV show in the Apple TV app.

Get theater-like sound on your Mac

Connect AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max to get a surround-sound Spatial Audio experience on your Mac with Apple silicon. With dynamic head tracking, sound stays fixed to the device as you move your head—so audio from a movie or music always seems to come from the right direction.

How to use AirPods with your Mac

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Start here, finish there

With Handoff, you can start a task on one device and finish it on another—for example, start an email on iPhone, but switch to your Mac when you get home.

How to hand off tasks between devices

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Share files between devices wirelessly

AirDrop lets you share documents, photos, webpages, and more with anyone nearby.

How to share files with AirDrop

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