The fold is the idea. One half of the phone never moves: your Mac's screen sits there edge to edge, a fixed stage that nothing ever covers, while the other half is a calm column that changes with what you are doing. Keys, a trackpad, a menu or a list take turns below the picture, and on the folded cover the same rule holds, top and bottom.
Find the Mac, sign in.
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MiniMac
Your Mac's screen on top. Your hands underneath.
Find my Mac
Welcome. The stage is already there, showing the Mac you are about to reach.
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Mac Studio
Found on your network, wired to the router.
User name
Luke Conforti
Password
••••••••••
Unlock with Touch ID next time Rest a finger on the side button
Connect
Scan the code on your Mac instead
Sign in to your Mac. Your Mac account, once. After that a fingertip on Touch ID does it.
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Your Macs
Mac StudioTap to connect
Online, wired
MacBook Pro
Online, on Wi-Fi
Mac mini
Asleep. Tap to wake it.
Your Macs. A plain list in the control half. Asleep Macs get woken, not hidden.
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5 ms
Direct. Your phone and Mac Studio are on the same network.
Away from home it says Relayed instead: the picture goes through our relay, still private, about 40 to 80 ms.
Connecting. One big honest number. The picture fades in on the stage as it arrives.
Folded: Mac on top, keys below.
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Keys
Dictate
Undo
⌃⌥⌘⇧Modifiers
Arrows
Edit
fnF-keys
Mouse
“the”Macmirror
qwertyuiop
asdfghjkl
zxcvbnm
123spacereturn
Typing. The key bar sits right on top of the normal iPhone keyboard, Mouse always last on the right.
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Keys
Dictate
Undo
⌃⌥⌘⇧Modifiers
Arrows
Edit
fnF-keys
Mouse
Two fingers scroll. Pinch to zoom.
Left click
Right click
Pointing. Tap Mouse and the keyboard half turns into a MacBook trackpad with real click buttons.
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250%Fit
Pinch zoom. The one screen that breaks the split: at 250% the picture takes the whole phone. Fit puts the controls back.
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Mac Studio Direct, 5 msMenu
Keys
Dictate
Undo
⌃⌥⌘⇧Modifiers
Arrows
Edit
fnF-keys
Mouse
One finger moves the pointer. Two fingers scroll. Pinch to zoom the picture.
Left click
Right click
Laptop pose. Half open on the desk: the Mac's screen stands up above the fold, the trackpad lies flat below it, and nothing touchable sits on the hinge.
Picture up, hands down.
Half open, the Duo becomes a tiny MacBook. The top half is the stage and it never moves, never shrinks, never gets a toolbar laid over it.
Everything you touch lives below the fold: a short line naming the Mac and how fast it is, the key bar, and a trackpad the width of the phone. The 40 points across the hinge stay empty, so a resting thumb never clicks anything.
Open flat: a cinema with a side table.
Mac Studio
Direct, 5 ms. Display 1
⌃control
⌥option
⌘command, held
⇧shift
↑
←
↓
→
esc
tab
Trackpad. Tap to click.
Open flat, sideways. The stage takes three quarters of the glass in a dark letterbox; the side column becomes a keypad of held modifiers, arrows and a small trackpad. Here command is held while the next key is pressed.
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Mac Studio
Direct, 5 ms. Connected 12 min
Clipboard
On the Mac: “Picture above, hands below.”
Paste here
Send mine
Displays
Display 1
Display 2
Image quality
Fast
Balanced
Sharp
Pointer speed
Your finger is
Touch mode
Mouse mode
Close connection
Done
Connection menu. Tap Menu and the control half flips to the one stone-coloured panel. The stage above stays live and uncovered.