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ever wanted to mirror your iPhone screen
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on your Mac it's easy let me show you
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how hi Dave Taylor here and I wanted to
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show you this super easy trick so iPhone
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this is actually an iPhone 7 Macintosh
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system you could use a big iMac with a
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big screen you can use a more modest
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laptop and then the only other piece you
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need to be able to mirror what's on your
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iPhone or iPad onto your Macintosh is a
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cable and you probably already have this
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cable so for me it's a lightning cable
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that connects via USB C to my Macintosh
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and it's all hooked up and tada nothing
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happens the reason nothing happens is
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because I need to launch a program now
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before I do this or it maybe while I'm
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doing this let me just tell you that one
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of the reasons you might want to
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actually mirror things because it can
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make it really great for you to give
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demos and show off what you're doing if
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you want to show grandma how to use
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facebook Messenger if you have a
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start-up and you want to show people
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your cool new app all of that works
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great so I'm going to go ahead and
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launch QuickTime Player and let's see
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it's actually already running that makes
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it easy or it was let's see QuickTime
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Player and I don't have an existing
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video to open so I just go into file new
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movie recording and sometimes it just
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goes straight to your phone when you
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have it plugged in other times you'll
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have to select it let's see what it does
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this time so it goes great so it's on my
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computer you can see I'm here it's sort
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of this Inception II sort of thing going
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on and what I want to do is in this
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little window in the middle choose my
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notice you have multiple cameras one of
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which is actually your iOS device suite
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I'm going to switch to that and watch
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what happens there you go so now you can
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see my phone is being mirrored on my
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now let's go fullscreen give this a
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little bit more drama so now you can see
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what's going on and if I want to go and
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check out the Chipotle app I can just
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look at my phone and ignore that this is
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going on and we'll find local
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restaurants all this sort of stuff
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really nice really simple now notice I'm
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not actually recording anything I can if
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I want to but I'm not what I also want
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to show you is that this gets even more
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cool when you have a program that is
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actually horizontally oriented so now
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notice here with my cribbage game if I
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go here that's really a clean display
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very nice very simple when you're done I
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have it in full screen so I press escape
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to get back to the regular screen and
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then I just quit QuickTime or of course
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I can just unplug my device and
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QuickTime theoretically should switch
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back to its internal camera but it looks
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like it just sits and it's stuck that's
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okay either way works really well and
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this is such a saving such a great thing
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to be able to do and you want to show
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off something on your phone or your
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tablet so again what do you need you
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need a cable that lets you plug in your
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iOS device to your Macintosh and you
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need to run QuickTime Player and then go
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into new movie and in new movie choose
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your iOS device your iPhone your tablet
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choose that as your camera and then you
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get it all working if you want to record
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push the record button and you can
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record half an hour of you doing
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something on your phone or whatever you
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want to watch you don't want to record
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just let it sit and be in preview mode
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and as you saw it works great this is
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Dave Taylor I hope that was a handy tip
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and as you're leaving my video go ahead
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