Anywhere
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For Mac, iPhone and iPad
See and control your Mac from your iPhone or iPad, at home or away. The stream is encrypted end to end, so only your devices ever see your screen.
Move your pointer. Both screens follow.
01 Control
Drag to move the pointer and tap to click. Two fingers scroll, a pinch zooms in on small text, and the keyboard is one tap away. A short tutorial in the app walks you through it.
02 Reach
Anywhere connects your devices directly when the networks allow it, and through a relay when they don't. Either way, the stream stays encrypted between the two of them.
Features
Keep Active keeps your Mac awake and nudges the pointer while it's idle, so the lock screen doesn't get in the way. Choose the days and hours. Battery and heat fail-safes are built in.
Open a window on any other Mac in your account and control it with your own mouse, trackpad and keyboard.
Drag them onto the window and they land on that Mac's Desktop. Folders are zipped on the way and unpacked on arrival.
One click shows your devices, who's connected and what Keep Active is doing. Connecting to another Mac starts right there.
Start sharing on your iPhone or iPad and watch its screen live from your Mac. It's view only: iOS doesn't allow remote control.
Sign in with your email or Google. Every device on the account finds the others on its own, with nothing to pair.
Setup
Sign in, then allow Screen Recording and Accessibility when your Mac asks. Anywhere settles into the menu bar.
Sign in with the same account. Your Mac appears in the list on its own, with nothing to pair or type in.
Confirm with Face ID and you're looking at your desktop. A short gesture tutorial gets your fingers up to speed.
Security
Anywhere's servers help your devices find each other. The picture, your typing and your files travel between the devices themselves, encrypted from one end to the other.
Video and input travel in an encrypted WebRTC session. When a relay has to carry it, the relay only ever handles ciphertext.
Each device proves who it is with a key held in its Secure Enclave, and signs every request and every session with it.
Your iPhone asks for Face ID before it opens a session, so a borrowed phone isn't a way in.
macOS shows when your screen is being shared. Stop Sharing ends the session at once.
Questions
It has to be powered on, logged in and online. Keep Active takes care of the rest: it keeps the Mac awake and nudges the pointer while it's idle, on the days and hours you choose.
No. They introduce your devices to each other and then step aside. The video and your input are encrypted between the devices, and each device signs the handshake so nobody in the middle can swap it.
Yes. Your devices connect directly when the two networks allow it. When they don't, an encrypted relay carries the stream instead.
You can watch it. Start sharing on the iPhone or iPad and its screen shows up on your Mac, view only. iOS doesn't let another device control it.
Yes. Choose Connect To in the menu bar and the other Mac opens in a window. Your mouse, trackpad and keyboard control it, and files you drop on the window land on its Desktop.
A Mac running macOS 15 or later, and an iPhone or iPad running iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. One account, by email or Google, ties them together.
macOS 15 or later · iOS and iPadOS 18 or later