How to put iPhone's screen onto mac in Xcode

Question

I watched a tutorial, what that guy did on his iPhone, appeared in Xcode simultaneously, and just like in a simulator. How to do that? THX.

Solution 1

There are several possibilities, depending on what exactly you saw in the tutorial.

Live video

If the video was live, there are two things he could have been doing:

Airserver, etc. (blue bar)

He could have been using an AirPlay Mirroring server app to use Airplay Mirroring on the iPhone to show his screen directly onto the Mac's screen. This is the most probable method.

Simulator (no blue bar)

He could have actually been using the simulator, unless he specifically said he was using a device. There are apps you can use to make your mouse look like a finger on the simulator's display. Slightly unlikely.

Still pictures

This is the more unlikely version of the two, and would mean that all you could see was individual still pictures of the app running on the device.

In the Xcode organizer, you can go to the screenshots tab for a device and take a screenshot of the current display of the device. Highly unlikely.

Solution 2

Open QuickTime Player,

File>New Movie Recording

Besides Record button(on the Quick Time Player), there is down arrow.

Click on down arrow and select iPhone