 If you want to display the contents of your iPhone or iPad on your Mac's desktop monitor, then there is a great little app that you can use to do this. It's called ScreenMirror over USB, and the best thing is it is a free to try product, and then it's only $1 if you want to actually go ahead and buy it. So, I mean, you can hardly complain at that price. You can get it in the Mac App Store ScreenMirror over USB, I'll obviously leave a link to it in the description, like I said, it's a free download and then just an in-app purchase for that dollar or thereabouts to actually go ahead and buy the full version. It does one thing, it does it really well, there's really not much to demo. All you're gonna do is plug in all of your different devices that you want to attach, and then it is gonna, they are all gonna appear in their own little window on the screen. So, here you can see my Mac mini, sorry, my iPad mini, I should say, and it's in its own little window. Now, what is great about this is, well, there are a couple of things actually. First of all, is this is just an infinitely scalable window, so you can make it just a tiny little window in the top corner. So, if you are watching something on your iPad and you want it to sort of play through onto your monitor, maybe just a little window, you're watching a movie or something like that in the background or watching a tutorial in the background or something like that, then you can just make it as big or as small as you want. You can obviously also make it much bigger, and in fact, if I come into my live demo mode, here you can see I'm on my 43 inch 4K monitor. If I want, I can blow up my iPad mini to the size of the entire screen if I want. And this is great for also, if you're working on something on your iPad, maybe you are hard of sight. This is one of the use cases for it to actually blow this up to a larger size. But maybe you want to, as I say, just play something through on the iPad. So maybe you've got a movie to play or a YouTube video to play. So if I come into YouTube on here, I've got one of my YouTube videos, not that I usually watch my own YouTube videos back, but I can play it through. But one of the magical things is, attached devices such as an iPhone or an iPad. The audio. Because I'm gonna tell you how. The audio also comes through. So it means that if you are watching things on your iPad, maybe you've got even a sort of dedicated player for certain services on your iPad, like either Netflix or I use CuriosityStream, the app that's for watching documentary style content as well. So I often watch things on here, LinkedIn Learning as well, but it's very easy to manage courses and things like that through the LinkedIn Learning app. So I often watch them on my iPad, but then to be able to just sort of play them up through the computer when I want to is a great little feature. And obviously when you make these things full screen, then you've got a nice sort of completely clean full screen window to work with. So it is a lot cleaner than just sort of watching it in a browser, for example. The other use case though would be for music. So if you use a music app on your phone, so I listen to Spotify, and often that's just on some random playlist. And so to be able to have a little sort of window showing me the Spotify player is great so that I can just sort of see what the particular track is that is playing. Meanwhile, my phone can just be out of the way somewhere where I'm not using it. So there's lots of different use cases for that. One of the other great uses for this is if you are on Zoom and you want to share the contents of your iPhone or iPad screen, you can do this already in Zoom. There is a way to do this where you can share the contents of the screen, but actually this is a much more easier workflow for me personally to just be able to go and share the screen from Zoom and share the specific window that you were, that you know, the specific window of your iDevice that you've got on your screen. Obviously we can do all this sort of stuff in eCAM Live by sharing an iDevice. This is not really for that. I know I do a lot of eCAM content on my channel, but this is really just to have this permanently actually on your desktop. Another use case for this though, using it with eCAM would be if you have got multiple phones that you are using as multiple camera angles for your eCAM, then you could almost have a separate little window for each one so that you've got a permanent sort of video monitor so that you can actually see what is coming out of your camera even when you're not in that scene in eCAM Live or OBS or what habit you happen to be using. Coming back to Zoom though, one of the interesting little use cases that the developer mentions on their website for this is I don't know if you are one of these or if you've seen people like this in Zoom calls casually kind of glancing down at their phone and scrolling on their phone. Well, one of the reasons this was created was so that the developer could have a little window of the output from the phone on the screen and then whilst on Zoom calls can look attentive whilst actually scrolling on their phone. That one did make me laugh a little bit but I'm sure there's lots of people who can relate to it. Now there is another little niche use case that I've got for it but I know that there'll be some people who watch my channel who will find this one interesting and that is related to Amazon Live because I do do Amazon Live streams or live streams on Amazon I should say and also create videos for Amazon. But one of the little quirks about the Amazon Live streaming as a platform is that you actually control your entire live stream from your phone. So even though I'm using Ecamm Live and recording it through my camera sitting in front of me here, I've got to have one eye on the phone because that's where I control what products have been sort of spotlighted at the time or spotlights, whatever the word is, showcased at the time. But also any comments and things like that come through on the app. And you can open the Amazon Live in a browser obviously but sometimes not everything comes through there at the rate that it's coming through on your phone. So you want to be able to have a look at your phone. Well, now what I've done is I've basically got my camera and teleprompter right here in front of me but then just over to the side of the place where I'm looking all of the time, I've got a little snapshot here of my phone and this is where I can basically control my Amazon Live stream from. So I'm able to have a look at that and see what's going on and then know if I've got a glance down to my phone to do anything. So a little bit niche that one but still nevertheless a really good use case for it. There is another amazing idea for this though which is if you are using Apple's universal control then you can, which is by the way, if you are on Monterey and you've got the right hardware and software on your iOS devices as well, you can use your single Mac keyboard and mouse to control multiple different devices but it also works with your iPad as well. So you can literally sort of mouse off the edge of your screen and be mousing onto your iPad and then control that. Well, that obviously depends on you having your iPad somewhere where you can see it and propped up somewhere. Well now what you could do is you could literally just have your iPad on, have it sitting flat on the desk over to the side, out of the way. Meanwhile, you've got a little window into your iPad on your desktop and then as you scroll your universal control off the screen onto your iPad you're still actually looking at it on your main display. So I think that that is another really neat use case. I mentioned though that you do require the right hardware and software in terms of the right levels on both the Monterey and also the iOS needs to have the right software on it as well. And sometimes people are running older hardware where that is not possible. Well, there is another app though by this same developer called Keypad. And what that does is that allows you to share your keyboard and mouse from your Mac with these other devices. So your iOS devices. And indeed, this was kind of also made as a bit of a companion app to that app as well. And this is something that I did a video all about a few months ago now, but you can find that video over there. If you're interested to use your Mac's keyboard and mouse with other devices.