How to use PocketDesk
From installing the helper to the finger controls.
Get started (5 minutes)
- Install the helper on your Mac: Download it from the helper download page, move it to Applications and open it.
- Allow two permissions (first run only): The helper shows a guide. In System Settings > Privacy & Security turn on two things: Screen & System Audio Recording, to send the Mac's screen (and sound) to your phone, and Accessibility, to carry out your touches and key presses on the Mac.
- Install PocketDesk on your phone: Get it from the App Store.
- Register the device: In the app tap "Add Mac", then scan the QR code shown by "Register device" in the helper's menu. If scanning is hard, type the number shown instead.
- Connect: Tap your Mac in the app to connect.
How to use
- One finger: press and hold to aim, lift to click. Hold half a second and move to drag.
- Right click: in trackpad mode (Pro), tap with two fingers.
- Two fingers: drag to scroll, spread to zoom.
- Three fingers: pan around the zoomed-in screen.
- Fill screen: no black bars. On iPhone the picture turns to landscape.
- Keyboard: the view shifts to keep the selected text field above the on-screen keyboard. A Bluetooth or Apple keyboard just works.
- Switching devices: connect from your iPad and the iPhone is disconnected with "Another device connected". Tap to take it back.
Common questions
Can I use it away from home?
For now it connects within the same network only.
What if the Mac wants to sleep?
While connected, the Mac is kept from sleeping.
Windows?
Mac only for now.
Contact
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