The full screen set for MiniMac, a remote for your Mac, drawn like a street poster: flat floods of mint, orange and grey, the heaviest condensed type, buttons as chunky as keys.
Every screen says one blunt thing in huge letters, then gets out of the way of your Mac. 40 screens, in the order you meet them.
Your Mac, on your phone. Type, click and see it from anywhere.
First open: one line on what it does, one big button that starts looking for Macs.
To find your Mac, MiniMac needs to look around your home or office network. It sees Macs only, nothing else, and nothing leaves your Wi-Fi.
MiniMac uses this to find Macs with Screen Sharing turned on.
Before iOS asks, one plain screen says why: MiniMac has to look around your Wi-Fi to find your Macs. Then the system ask.
System Settings, General, Sharing. Switch on Screen Sharing.
Under the i button, choose Only these users and add yourself.
Optional. Install Tailscale on the Mac and this phone, sign in to both.
Help for the Mac side, in three blunt blocks: turn on Screen Sharing, note the name, add Tailscale if you want it away from home.
Check the Mac is awake, on the same Wi-Fi, and has Screen Sharing on.
Nothing answered on this Wi-Fi. Say so loudly, then give three ways forward.
An IP like 192.168.1.20 works too. Leave the port as 5900 unless you changed it.
For a Mac on another network or behind Tailscale: a name, an address, a port.
Found on your Wi-Fi. Sign in with the Mac's own login.
The Mac it found sits on top. Type the Mac's user name and password once, or scan the code the Mac shows.
Use the password you type on the Mac itself. Check caps lock. Two more tries, then the Mac makes you wait a minute.
The Mac said no. The field turns orange and a big block says what to check.
Open MiniMac helper on the Mac to show its code.
Point the camera at the code MiniMac shows on the Mac. The mint corners lock on and it signs you in.
It is on the Mac, in MiniMac helper.
No camera? Type the twelve digits shown on the Mac. Big boxes, the number pad, done.
Wired, online. Last used today.
Wi-Fi, online
Asleep. Tap to wake.
Every Mac you have signed in to, as big tiles. Tap one to connect. A sleeping Mac gets woken first.
Wake signal sent. Waiting for it to answer.
Waking needs the Mac on power and Wake for network access turned on.
The Mac mini is asleep. MiniMac sends a wake signal and waits, with Wake again and Try again close by.
Signing in to Mac Studio.
Touch the power button
Back again: a press on the power button unlocks the saved login. No typing.
Your phone talks straight to the Mac Studio. The fastest way.
Only when direct fails. Still private, a bit slower.
A fat progress bar, then the route in plain words: direct and quick, or relayed when it has to be.
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Your Mac on top, the iPhone keyboard below. The key bar adds what iOS lacks, with Mouse last on the right.
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Tap Mouse and the keyboard becomes a MacBook-style trackpad with two fat click buttons.
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Tap to hold for the next key. Double tap to lock until you tap again.
Big modifier blocks. Command is held for one key, Shift is locked by a double tap.
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Hold an arrow to repeat. With Shift held, arrows select text.
Arrows like a real keyboard, plus Home, End, Page Up and Page Down in a column.
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Each one sends the Mac shortcut, so it works in any app.
Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, Select all and Find as big named blocks, Paste the biggest.
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esc, tab, return, forward delete, F1 to F12, and six Mac shortcuts you would otherwise need three fingers for.
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"ask Sam about the sp"
Talk and the words type straight into the Mac as you say them.
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Hold Left click and slide a finger: the Mac highlights text, like holding a trackpad click.
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Tap Right click and the Mac's own menu opens under the pointer.
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Clean early, offshore until 10 am. The Pass is the pick on the low tide.
Swipe up with three fingers and the Mac opens Mission Control. A mint tag confirms what was sent.
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Copy on the phone and a mint chip offers to paste it on the Mac. One tap.
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Clean early, offshore until 10 am. The Pass is the pick on the low tide.
Two screens on the Mac? Pick one by its picture, not its name.
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The picture freezes and dims, and a loud orange banner says what happened and what it is doing.
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When the link is relayed and slow, say it straight and offer to try direct again.
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Pinch to 250% to read small text. The orange box shows where you are. Fit snaps back.
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The three dots open one sheet with the rest: clipboard, display, quality, pointer speed, touch or mouse, and the way out.
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Half open the Duo on a table and it becomes a little MacBook. The Mac stands up above the fold. The key bar and a full-width trackpad lie flat under your hands.
Fold to about 90 degrees upright: Mac above the fold, controls below.
Turn the half-open Duo sideways and grip both pages. The left page shows the Mac and holds the keys your left thumb wants. The right page is all trackpad.
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Sideways and half open, 951 by 669, with a 40 point upright fold in the middle that nothing touchable ever crosses.
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Open flat and turn it: the Mac fills the left, every control docks in one column on the right.
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Open flat upright with the keyboard up: a full-size keyboard with modifiers and arrows built into its top row.
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Folded and turned sideways: the Mac on the left, a thumb pad and the click buttons on the right.
The app opens on the poster itself: orange, MINI MAC, nothing else.
A flat mint square with MINI MAC stacked in black, a black floor and a mint pointer. Reads at 60 points.
Every app setting on one black screen, grouped by tone, no lines.
Drag to reorder. Your bar, left to right.
Drag the key bar into your own order. Mouse stays pinned last on the right.
Wired, online. Added 2 October.
Per-Mac settings: name, address, user, picture quality, remembered display, and forget this Mac.
Version 1.0 (42). Made for iPhone Duo.
Control your Mac with Screen Sharing, at home or through Tailscale.
What it is, which version, where to get help. Loud but short.