How to use Universal Control and Sidecar to augment your workflow

Sidecar and Universal Control are two important tools that can help improve your workflow. Their core premise – the ability to easily connect devices to each other – is similar, but Sidecar and Universal Control provide very different functions.

WHAT IS UNIVERSAL CONTROL?

We’ve already looked at Universal Control (see page 62), so we won’t go over it again here.

WHAT DEVICES CAN USE UNIVERSAL CONTROL?

Universal Control is currently available in iPadOS 15.4 and macOS

12.3. Here are the Macs and iPads that can run Universal Control.

Universal Control: Macs

• MacBook 2016 or later• MacBook Air 2018 or later• MacBook Pro 2016 or later• Mac mini 2018 or later• 21.5in iMac 2017 or later• 24in iMac 2021 or later• 27in iMac late 2015 or later• iMac Pro 2019 or later• Mac Pro 2019 and later