Control iPhone w/ Apple remote? I could have sworn I saw somewhere that you can control someone having to do with the iPhone if you have a mac w/ a mac remote (intel)?? You to the Store page showing the details and under the dual dock included with the headphones it would say you could control the iPhone with an Apple remote.

• How To Use Iphone As Remote Control For Mac Free

• You can use your iPhone to control your laptop or computer remotely. By using third-party programs, you can easily take control of your computer even if you are away from it. This can be convenient when you want to check on your computer while on the go.
• You can control music, applications, windows, documents and a lot more using iPhone as a remote control for PC and Mac. Take a look at how you can do this.

Wouldn't it be useful to be able to control your Mac remotely? That way, even when you're not actually in front of your Mac, you can see if a download has completed or to open or quit an app, for example. Well, you can indeed do this from your iPad or iPhone. There are a number of apps that make this possible, and they work over VNC (Virtual Network Connection). This performs most quickly over your local network, but can also be used in conjunction with apps such as TeamViewer to keep you connected to your Mac even when you leave the building.

Being able to see your Mac's screen and control the computer from your iOS device gives you more capabilities than if you were to simply connect to it as a networked drive. VNC is a great way to use computers that are elsewhere in your home or office without having to be physically present. Here's how to do this using an app called Remoter VNC. Prev Page 1 of 7 Next Prev Page 1 of 7 Next 1. Turn on Screen Sharing.

Tap your Mac on Remoter VNC's main screen, then Start. The app will connect over your Wi-Fi network and give you remote control of the Mac. You can spread two fingers apart on the iPad screen to zoom into the Mac desktop, and pinch them together to zoom out. Tapping the iPad's screen moves the Mac's pointer to wherever you tapped.

Tapping items on the screen has the same effect as clicking on them with a mouse or trackpad. There's a fullscreen mode icon at the top-left corner. Prev Page 5 of 7 Next Prev Page 5 of 7 Next 5. Control the pointer. Tap the trackpad icon (bottom right corner) to open the virtual trackpad.

The larger area on it is used to move the pointer. The smaller strip on the virtual trackpad's right side controls vertical scrolling. This works in any document or window where scrolling is possible, such as websites or Pages documents. Actions you set up for the trackpad on the Mac are also translated. For example, a two-finger tap on the virtual trackpad opens a contextual menu in certain places. Prev Page 6 of 7 Next Prev Page 6 of 7 Next 6.

Use the keyboard. You can call up a virtual keyboard to type. You need your Mac to be focused on something where it's possible to enter text, such as a Pages document, Safari's Smart Search, or Spotlight, then tap the keyboard icon (bottom right).

A small, temporary text field above the virtual keyboard shows you a preview of what's typed. Confirm it's correct, then press the Return key to send the text to your Mac.

If you've typed something in Safari's Smart Search field, press Return again to search or go to the address. Enjoyed this article? Get more tutorials, guides, and tips on how to get the most from your Apple devices inside MacFormat. Prev Page 7 of 7 Next Prev Page 7 of 7 Next.

I am using my iPhone 7 for product photography. The iPhone is clamped in a bracket and that makes it hard to use. Also when it is set up and level I don't want to disturb it. I would like to remote control the iPhone 7 to use the spirit level, camera and camera apps. I'd also like switch from one app to another.

Ideally I want to do this by driving the iPhone 7 from another device (my old iPhone 5S, or an iPad, or Windows laptop). That means I'm not just after remote firing the shutter, or air play, or mirroring (I don't just want to share a picture of what's on the other screen), and really I would like to do more than pair the phones within a single app, like Photo Plus. I'd like to control the whole phone, remotely. I promise I am not trying to take over the world, just want to be able to use my own kit, on my own wireless network. Anyone know of any apps or ways I can make this happen? Short answer, definitely not.

Longer answer. There’s no app that could do all of that, Apple simply don’t allow it. One app can interact with another instance of the same app on a different device, but that’s the limit, we don’t get the kind of access that would allow control of the system and we likely never will. Such a thing may be possible if the devices were jail broken, well in theory, I don’t know if anyone’s actually done it yet.

How To Use Iphone As Remote Control For Mac Free

And then of course you’re into the whole, having a device that can be jail broken, not updating to the latest iOS because it won’t be jail broken and so on and so on.