You can also interact with windows on the screen with gestures, using a three finger swipe to bring up the iOS keyboard, for example, and logout by simply pinching to zoom out. Luna Display has full instructions on setting up the Mac mini with an iPad display here.Once you connect, you've got a second display for your Mac! Its default location is to the right of your Mac's display, but you can change it in the Display settings in System Preferences on your Mac. For $80, it might be a popular way to add a wireless touchscreen display.

While this would be an expensive display solution for those that don’t already have an iPad (or iPad Pro), the Luna Display could be valuable for those who use their Mac mini as a headless home server. And since Luna runs over WiFi, you have the flexibility of a completely wireless workspace. It offers more ways to interact with your macOS too, where you can seamlessly flow from mouse, to keyboard, to Apple Pencil, to touch interactions. Luna Display notes you can easily move between using the touchscreen to an external keyboard and mouse as needed. It’s strange and exciting all at the same time, but once you settle into your workflow, it makes you wonder why this hasn’t been an obvious product pairing for Apple all along. When you launch Luna, you’re running your macOS on your iPad and when you close out of the Luna app, you have a regular iPad Pro again. Here’s how Luna Display describes it in use: This setup makes use of the Luna app on iPad to use it as a primary display for a Mac mini. The iPad Pro has such a large and beautiful screen, that of course you’d want to find a way to use it in your workflow. In many ways, it was so obvious and second-nature to use the iPad as your main display.

Our initial thought when we got Luna up and running with the Mac Mini was “this is like a whole new Apple product!” It really felt like that. With the setup successfully working, Luna Display was excited about the initial feel of the combination of the two products.

We were curious to see if Luna could also turn the iPad into the primary display for Mac Mini. Naturally, the setup is configured around the Luna Display adapter that works over WiFi to transmit the video output wirelessly. Luna Display did some experimenting with the iPad Pro as a wireless display option with the Mac mini and shared the results in a blog post.

Now, the company put the Mac mini to the test to see how the new iPad Pro would be as a wireless touchscreen display for the new Mac desktop. Luna Display offers a slick way to extend your MacBook display with iPad.

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