Drag the illustrated displays into the arrangement you require.Do not select the Mirror Displays tickbox (unless you want the second screen to show the same content as your original screen).Identify which Apple adapter and cable you need to connect the Mac and the monitor by following the guidance in the Which Port section below.The steps are relatively simple, but as you will see the first step is the hardest! Luckily once you know what wire you need to connect your MacBook to your monitor it should be plain sailing. That’s even before you have studied the ports on the back or the display to work out what connector is required there. This is one of those things that should be easy, but because over the years Apple has changed the ports on Macs it can be difficult to know what connectors you actually need in order to connect a monitor to your Mac. How to connect an external monitor to a Mac You may also be interested in how to use an old iMac as a second display. To find out more see: How to use the same mouse and keyboard with two Macs.Īnother thing to bear in mind if you were hoping to add two external displays to your Mac is that while some Macs can support up to five additional displays, the M1 Macs, including the MacBook Air and 13in MacBook Pro can only support one additional display – although there is a workaround, read: How to connect two or more external displays to Apple M1 Macs. In Monterey Apple added the ability to use one keyboard and mouse with two Macs, or a Mac and iPad, which could suit your new way of working. We look at how to use your iPad as a screen for your Mac in a separate article, along with which iPads and Macs support the feature. This may suit you if you don’t already own an external screen, but note that you do need a supported Mac and iPad. ![]() As with this case, there may be other combinations that don't work as expected.It is also possible to use an iPad as a second screen – an option that Apple added in macOS Catalina, and then enhanced in macOS Monterey. I believe that's why there's no reference to this gesture in System Preferences - which is where one might be tempted to look.įinally, if you're one of those people who puts the dock, vertically, on the left side of your main display and the second display is logically to the left, the cursor will just slide to the second screen, as it should. It's more of a dynamic user action, a Finder gesture if you will. There doesn't seem to be any point in this kind of abrupt, possibly dizzying animation, especially without the user's consent.Īlso, this movement of the Dock isn't really a Preference. My theory is that the dock doesn't jump between screens when you make a new one active because it may not need to. To move the Dock back to the main display (or any other display), repeat the process starting with Step #1.Īctive (second) display after sliding the cursor to the bottom. (If you had previously enabled "Automatically hide and show the Dock," it will disappear as you move the mouse upwards, but remain tied to that display.) When the cursor touches the bottom, the Dock will rise up from the bottom and stay there on the selected display. This is the same technique as if you had invoked System Preferences > Dock > "Automatically hide and show the Dock." Without clicking the mouse again, move the cursor all the way down to the bottom of the screen. If you've clicked on a display to make it active, note how the Menu Bar brightens. To bring the dock over to a different display: One might expect that by clicking in a secondary display, the dock would jump over there. My second display, made active but no dock. ![]() The active display will be crisp and white while non-active displays will have a Menu Bar that's dimmed and translucent. You can tell which one is active by looking at the Menu Bar at the top. In Mavericks, any display can be the active display. But how do you get the dock to actually appear on the active display? Here's how to do it. Any active display can have a Menu Bar now. ![]() OS X Mavericks is very good at handling multiple displays.
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