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Can I view my iPhone 5S screen on my older iMac??
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1750318" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Exactly. Older iMac's can do "video-out" only.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It may have been powerful at one time...but an iMac 8,1 is now 9 years old...and is no longer powerful.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> </p><p></p><p>We've all dealt with this situation. We have an older computer that we would like to somehow continue to use...but at the end of the day...and old computer is an old computer. And many times the old computer just can't do everything newer computers may be able to do.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You're trying to use your iMac for a purpose it was never really designed for. And to complicate things further...you trying to do it with an iMac and an iPhone (kind of like mating a bananna with an Apple and seeing what happens).<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> These two things (old iMac and iPhone) just weren't made to work together in this way.</p><p></p><p>The iMac is video out only...and trying to view an iPhone display on an external device (computer or monitor) is unusual & uncommon. And iPhone is a portable hand-help device...it was never meant to be "tethered" to an external monitor for iPhone screen viewing.</p><p></p><p>There may be complex ways to do this...and this is exactly why it is complex. iPhone's/iPhone display's really were not designed to easily do this. Sorry.</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1750318, member: 56379"] Exactly. Older iMac's can do "video-out" only. It may have been powerful at one time...but an iMac 8,1 is now 9 years old...and is no longer powerful.:( We've all dealt with this situation. We have an older computer that we would like to somehow continue to use...but at the end of the day...and old computer is an old computer. And many times the old computer just can't do everything newer computers may be able to do. You're trying to use your iMac for a purpose it was never really designed for. And to complicate things further...you trying to do it with an iMac and an iPhone (kind of like mating a bananna with an Apple and seeing what happens).;) These two things (old iMac and iPhone) just weren't made to work together in this way. The iMac is video out only...and trying to view an iPhone display on an external device (computer or monitor) is unusual & uncommon. And iPhone is a portable hand-help device...it was never meant to be "tethered" to an external monitor for iPhone screen viewing. There may be complex ways to do this...and this is exactly why it is complex. iPhone's/iPhone display's really were not designed to easily do this. Sorry. - Nick [/QUOTE]
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