Universal Control is one of my all-time favorite features between macOS and iPadOS, the idea that I can sit at my desk and control both at once with my desktop keyboard and mouse is both fun and practical. Really, a lot of the features of Continuity make using these devices so great to me. Not everyone will agree, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but how productive you can be and how everything flows naturally, it's great.
It's little details like the mouse moving over that 1. Make me love Apple, and 2. Make me love being a user experience designer. Those interactions are such a small but impactful detail that make using things fun!
@ I have had no issue with it. And plus the specs you pay for when it comes to a Mac you build your own PC with the same equivalent hardware for WAY LESS. Apple is scamming you guys
@@chaosqrow634 Apple has its downsides, one of those being the price point and the inability to customize without dropping bookoo bucks. I have a custom built PC too that I love. Mac and Windows have their pros and cons and like the comment above says at the end of the day the best choice is the one that works best for your use case. I was just saying I appreciate how Apple handles interaction design, not bashing on Windows
Hearing about Okage in this jumble of information just made me think how much I want to watch cuz Mal's wanted to do it for a long time on the channel... but I don't think I can sit through the streams. 2-3 hours is too long for my attention span and stretching it out over a couple days adds the stress of "I need to make progress and finish this soon before the next video is uploaded". As much as I enjoyed them, I stopped keeping up with the painting streams because it got to be too much.
Whenever I dig out an old HDD, I also restructure all of my file organization, and clean out old/duplicate files. If I were to ever get a second computer I would love to have a feature like that though
If they ever natively put something like this on Windows 11, THAT is the thing that will make me switch to it. Not between monitors, but between computers, and faster than Bluetooth.
Universal Control works the same way you'd rearrange monitors if you have multiple plugged in. Macs and iPads need to have Bluetooth on and be on the same network, among one or two other things. After that, you move them around in Settings so that they know where they're oriented on your desk. And there you go!
It will know because if you take your mouse to the right side of the screen of the current computer you’re using, you’re 99% most likely trying to get to the left side of the other computer. It will then stay in that orientation until one of the computers go to sleep, then you’ll have to “set it up” again by pushing your mouse to the edge of the screen. This is good so if you’re using the feature with an iPad, you’d be able to move it to the other side and not have to go into settings to rearrange. There’s also an option for the computers to automatically link the keyboard and mouse again when waking up from sleep, but it’s default is off, which makes sense to me, because of what I was saying before. So you can push the mouse to the edge of the screen and it’ll be arranged correctly. You could probably turn on the auto connect if you permanently have the two computers next to each other, kinda like how Stephen has it now.
I don’t think you understand what the feature actually is. It’s two different computers, being able to use one mouse and keyboard for both, seamlessly moving the mouse across the two screens, as if it’s a dual monitor setup on a single computer.
@ Macs are still dumb and convoluted to use and you have to enter your password in 75 times just to get into something cause it wants to make sure that you’re sure the other 74 times. It’s stupid and dumb. If I wasn’t sure I wouldn’t have clicked on the damn software or whatever it is I’m trying to do in the first place
Windows has been able to move the mouse over to multiple monitors for decades 😂😂😂😂 this is why Windows will still be the best because I find it HILARIOUS that this is just now “wowing” Apple users Jesus Christ
Really quick, are you referring to other Windows computers nearby each other? Or just their monitors? Because the former's what's happening here, these are two individual computers that are on the same WiFi network that can have their mouse and keyboard shared between each other at one time. If Windows can do that too, that's awesome!
I don’t think you understand what the feature actually is. It’s two different computers, being able to use one mouse and keyboard for both, seamlessly moving the mouse across the two screens, as if it’s a dual monitor setup on a single computer.
Universal Control is one of my all-time favorite features between macOS and iPadOS, the idea that I can sit at my desk and control both at once with my desktop keyboard and mouse is both fun and practical. Really, a lot of the features of Continuity make using these devices so great to me. Not everyone will agree, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but how productive you can be and how everything flows naturally, it's great.
0:47 I see the House Supervisor is checking in on the situation....
It's little details like the mouse moving over that 1. Make me love Apple, and 2. Make me love being a user experience designer. Those interactions are such a small but impactful detail that make using things fun!
Windows is still ultimately more used
@@chaosqrow634So? If something works better for someone in their use case, that’s all that matters at the end of the day.
@chaosqrow634 sweet. Windows has a bunch of crap wrong. For instance that useless search function.
@ I have had no issue with it. And plus the specs you pay for when it comes to a Mac you build your own PC with the same equivalent hardware for WAY LESS. Apple is scamming you guys
@@chaosqrow634 Apple has its downsides, one of those being the price point and the inability to customize without dropping bookoo bucks. I have a custom built PC too that I love. Mac and Windows have their pros and cons and like the comment above says at the end of the day the best choice is the one that works best for your use case. I was just saying I appreciate how Apple handles interaction design, not bashing on Windows
My favorite part about this is you can do it between Mac and an iPad.
I had a very similar experience last year, but between my macbook and my ipad, which was also really really cool.
I've done this on Windows with third party software already. Not as seamless but gets the job done.
Hearing about Okage in this jumble of information just made me think how much I want to watch cuz Mal's wanted to do it for a long time on the channel... but I don't think I can sit through the streams. 2-3 hours is too long for my attention span and stretching it out over a couple days adds the stress of "I need to make progress and finish this soon before the next video is uploaded". As much as I enjoyed them, I stopped keeping up with the painting streams because it got to be too much.
I really wish the Mac had better gaming support. Apple’s UI/UX is so much more preferable to Windows, and I’d love to make the switch someday
Whenever I dig out an old HDD, I also restructure all of my file organization, and clean out old/duplicate files. If I were to ever get a second computer I would love to have a feature like that though
so... apple sherlocked the old abyssoft teleport app that i used to use on my two intel macs some years ago.
If they ever natively put something like this on Windows 11, THAT is the thing that will make me switch to it. Not between monitors, but between computers, and faster than Bluetooth.
How does it know which side the other computer is on?
Or does it just work on both sides like Pac-Man portals?
(It’s very cool either way)
Universal Control works the same way you'd rearrange monitors if you have multiple plugged in. Macs and iPads need to have Bluetooth on and be on the same network, among one or two other things. After that, you move them around in Settings so that they know where they're oriented on your desk. And there you go!
@@Doughisaur
That makes sense, but in this case, the mouse jumped screens without any setup. That was the part that made this so unexpected.
It will know because if you take your mouse to the right side of the screen of the current computer you’re using, you’re 99% most likely trying to get to the left side of the other computer. It will then stay in that orientation until one of the computers go to sleep, then you’ll have to “set it up” again by pushing your mouse to the edge of the screen. This is good so if you’re using the feature with an iPad, you’d be able to move it to the other side and not have to go into settings to rearrange.
There’s also an option for the computers to automatically link the keyboard and mouse again when waking up from sleep, but it’s default is off, which makes sense to me, because of what I was saying before. So you can push the mouse to the edge of the screen and it’ll be arranged correctly. You could probably turn on the auto connect if you permanently have the two computers next to each other, kinda like how Stephen has it now.
@@halami2149
That's a nice, simple way to make that work. Thanks for the info! :)
Isn't it what Remote Desktop Connection is?
No, that is connecting to your home computer from somewhere else
hi StephenVlog
Stephen acting like something that’s been able to be done on Windows for DECADES like it’s the second coming of Christ
I don’t think you understand what the feature actually is. It’s two different computers, being able to use one mouse and keyboard for both, seamlessly moving the mouse across the two screens, as if it’s a dual monitor setup on a single computer.
@ Macs are still dumb and convoluted to use and you have to enter your password in 75 times just to get into something cause it wants to make sure that you’re sure the other 74 times. It’s stupid and dumb. If I wasn’t sure I wouldn’t have clicked on the damn software or whatever it is I’m trying to do in the first place
@@chaosqrow634 Be sour at Apple but don’t be a sourpuss at Stephen.
@@chaosqrow634 You sound insecure.
Windows has been able to move the mouse over to multiple monitors for decades 😂😂😂😂 this is why Windows will still be the best because I find it HILARIOUS that this is just now “wowing” Apple users Jesus Christ
Really quick, are you referring to other Windows computers nearby each other? Or just their monitors? Because the former's what's happening here, these are two individual computers that are on the same WiFi network that can have their mouse and keyboard shared between each other at one time. If Windows can do that too, that's awesome!
It's not multiple monitors, it's multiple computers. Big difference.
@@Doughisaur The point is Apple is known for ripping off and stealing features from Windows, Android and the iOS jailbreak tweaking community
@@DoughisaurI don’t think it can natively like how Apple does it. There might be software you can download, I saw someone else talking about
I don’t think you understand what the feature actually is. It’s two different computers, being able to use one mouse and keyboard for both, seamlessly moving the mouse across the two screens, as if it’s a dual monitor setup on a single computer.