Xiaomi achieves what even Apple hasn't done yet

Tips: Display and control your Xiaomi phone's screen on your Mac

You can display the screen and interact with all the apps on your Xiaomi phone directly on your Mac's screen. Wirelessly. All you need is the right Mac app.

Erik Mörner

Published 7 April 2025 - 10:01

One of the biggest announcements when Apple updated its systems in spring 2024 was that you would be able to display the iPhone screen on your Mac computer and control everything directly from there, even if the phone was charging in another room. That feature never came to Sweden, but the fact is that it is already available now, provided you use a phone from Xiaomi. All you need is to download the right app to your Mac computer.

Both in the App Store for iPhone and in the Mac App Store for Mac computers, the app Xiaomi Interconnectivity is available, and it is the key to the new services.

For all this to work, the latest version of Xiaomi's interface Hyper OS is required. It is Hyper OS 2, which is not only available in Xiaomi 14 and 15 Ultra but has also long been released in earlier models from Xiaomi, such as the Xiaomi 14 series, in the form of an update.

Display and control the Xiaomi phone screen on your Mac computer

This feature was launched by Apple for iPhone in spring 2024, but it has not yet come to Sweden. Therefore, Xiaomi is ahead of Apple itself with this capability on Apple's own computers.

By downloading the Xiaomi Interconnectivity app to your Mac computer, you get several opportunities to communicate wirelessly directly with your Xiaomi phone. One of the possibilities includes displaying the phone's screen directly on the computer screen and controlling all the phone's functions from there.

This can be useful if you are working on the computer but have the phone charging a bit away. The devices must be connected to the same wifi network. When this is the case, you can start the app on your Mac computer and then just select the function called Home Screen Plus. There you can choose your phone and freely control it remotely.

You can use the computer's keyboard to type directly into the phone's apps, but for example, the PIN code to log in must be entered by clicking on the screen's numbers with the mouse. When you unlock and use the phone from your computer, it is also unlocked in practice, so if someone passes by your phone while it is charging, they can peek.

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This tip is an excerpt from a longer article about how the Xiaomi phone can become the Mac computer's and iPhone's best friend, previously published exclusively for Plus members on Mobil.se. Here you can become a Plus member and thereby get direct access to all articles on Mobil.se. As a Plus member, you get collected tips and many other in-depth, guiding articles. You can find the entire article here.