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    Run Sidecar with older Macs

    Jul 21, 2020 4 minutes
    NICK PEERS

    REQUIRES

    Mac running macOS 10.15 or later, iPad running iPadOS 13

    YOU WILL LEARN

    How to get Sidecar working on older Macs and iPads

    IT WILL TAKE

    20 minutes

    But there’s a caveat — your Mac may be running Catalina and your iPad may be running iPadOS 13, but Apple has decided (for performance reasons) that only newer hardware can make use of Sidecar. If your Mac (or iPad) isn’t listed at bit.ly/sidecarsupport then you’re sunk, right?

    Wrong. It turns out that older Macs and iPads are only locked out because they’re on a “blacklist”. What’s more, this blacklist is stored in

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