Use Continuity to work across Apple devices
With Continuity, you can use your Mac together with your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch to work smarter and move seamlessly between your devices.
What is Continuity?
Continuity is the way that your Apple devices work together. There are many Continuity features that allow you to easily work across your Apple devices, without ever missing a beat. There’s no app to use Continuity—you just need to be signed in with to the same Apple Account on your Apple devices. Many features also require that you have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® turned on.
There are minimum system requirements for Continuity features; see the Apple Support article System requirements for Continuity features on Apple devices.
Use your iPhone and receive iPhone notifications on your Mac
iPhone Mirroring allows you to use iPhone and receive iPhone notifications from your nearby Mac. See Use iPhone Mirroring and iPhone notifications on your Mac.
Share content between devices
You can easily share content between your devices, whether it’s copying text on an iPhone and pasting it on your Mac, sharing a file from your Mac to your iPad with AirDrop, using the camera on your iPhone to scan a document onto your Mac, or handing off tasks between devices.
Quickly share photos, videos, contacts, and anything else, with anyone near you—wirelessly. AirDrop makes sharing to iPhone, iPad, and Mac as simple as dragging and dropping. See Use AirDrop to send items to nearby Apple devices.
Copy text, images, photos, and videos on one Apple device and then paste the content on another Apple device with Universal Clipboard. For example, you can copy a recipe from Safari on your Mac, then paste it into Notes on your nearby iPhone. See Copy and paste between your Apple devices.
Start a document, an email, or a message on one device and pick up where you left off on another device. Handoff works with apps like Mail, Safari, Maps, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. See Hand off tasks between Apple devices.
Answer calls, send texts, and share your internet connection
Make it easy to stay connected when you set up your Mac to receive calls, make texts messages, and share the Personal Hotspot on your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular).
Relay calls from your iPhone to your Mac, as well as send and receive texts. You can also hand off a FaceTime call from one device to another, so if you start a call on your iPhone and want to continue it on a larger screen, it’s easy to transfer the call to your Mac. See Receive phone calls and text messages on your Mac.
Your Mac can connect to the internet using the Personal Hotspot on your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) when they’re within range of each other—no setup is required. Your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) automatically appears in the Wi‑Fi status—just select it to connect to the internet. See Share the internet connection from your iPhone or iPad with your Mac.
Stream content to a larger screen
Want to see it on the big screen? Share, play, or present videos, music, photos, and more from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac. You can also stream content from your Mac to an Apple TV or an AirPlay 2-enabled TV. See Stream video and audio with AirPlay.
Use your iPhone or iPad camera with your Mac
With Continuity Camera, you can use your iPhone as your Mac computer’s webcam or microphone. You can also use video effects when using your iPhone as a webcam, like Portrait mode or Center Stage. See Use your iPhone as a webcam on Mac.
With the camera on your iPhone or iPad, you can take a picture or scan a document with your nearby iPhone and have it appear instantly on your Mac. (You can also use Markup tools on an image or draw a sketch on your iPhone or iPad and have it appear on your Mac.) See Insert sketches, photos, and scans from iPhone or iPad on Mac.
Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
Use your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac or approve authentication requests from your Mac, without having to enter a password. See Unlock your Mac and approve requests with Apple Watch.
Extend your workspace with Mac and iPad
When your Mac is near an iPad, Universal Control allows you to use a single keyboard and trackpad, or a connected mouse, to work across the devices. You can even drag content between them—for example, you can sketch a drawing with Apple Pencil on iPad, then drag it to your Mac to drop into a Keynote presentation. See Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad.
With Sidecar, your iPad becomes a second display for your Mac. You can either extend your Mac desktop, or show the same app on both screens but control different aspects of it. See Use your iPad as a second display for your Mac.