This could be an incredibly handy feature.
The rumor mill has it that Apple is working on a new Mac and iPad display feature to launch with macOS 10.15 later this year.
Previously, Astro HQ came up with a solution, Luna Display, that allows Mac users to use their iPad as an external display. There are many solutions on the market for that, but Luna Display has become the top one given that it’s a hardware product leveraging the power of the GPU so the experience is as seamless as possible.
According to sources close to the story, Apple is working on a new feature in which the new operating system will have a feature that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display. The external display can be an actual external display connected to the Mac or even an iPad.
The new feature, known internally as “Sidecar,” can be accessed via a simple menu. This new menu will be opened by hovering over the green “maximize” button in a Mac app window for a split second. The menu will have options for making the window fullscreen, tiling and moving to external displays, including the user’s iPads and external displays connected to the Mac. Selecting one of the display options moves the current window to the selected external display or iPad, in fullscreen.
Users incorporating an iPad that supports the Apple Pencil will be able to draw on the iPad with the Pencil as it’s being used as an external display for the Mac, effectively transforming it into a tablet. Engineers are also working on options that will allow windows to be easily snapped to one side of the screen, similar to a feature that already exists on Windows.
Apple is expected to unveil macOS 10.15 this June, during the opening keynote of its Worldwide Developers Conference.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via 9to5Mac