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Universal Control handson: The magic is alive

The macOS 12.3 and iPadOS 15.4 betas were released to developers late last month, and there was a surprise: Apple finally added Universal Control, the much-anticipated feature that was revealed at WWDC21. Late last year Apple announced that the release of Universal Control would be delayed to this spring, so we didn’t expect to see any trace of it until at least March.

For the uninitiated, Universal Control allows you to use an iPad as an external display for a Mac. During the demo in the WWDC

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