iPhone mirroring stopped working with new iPhone

When I first launched iPhone Mirroring, it showed my old phone. So I went to Settings and chose my new phone from the drop-down. Next when I tried to use iPhone mirroring, it started to connect and then said "Timed out starting iPhone Mirroring." So I restarted both devices and now it just says "Unable to Connect to iPhone." The strangest thing is the iPhone Mirroring settings are missing from both devices, so I don't know what my next steps are.

I'm on the same Wifi network, Bluetooth is on, both are signed into the same iCloud account. I have tried restarting twice. Switching airplane mode on and off. Turning off focus modes. Resetting the iPhone Mirroring app in Settings → Reset iPhone Access. I searched everywhere for an answer but no one seems to have this exact problem.

Thanks in advance!

iPhone 16 iOS 18 & Mac Mini M2 MacOS 15

iPhone 16 Plus

Posted on Sep 22, 2024 03:46 PM

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Scott Shuchart

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Posted on Sep 29, 2024 10:32 AM

Found a great fix in another thread:

How to Fix iPhone 13 Pro Mirroring Issues… - Apple Community

The answer is - credit to user "HopefullyHelpful01":

(1) Running following command on terminal

defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity

(2) Deleting file

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist

(i.e. you can run "rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist" while you're in the terminal)

This worked for me when manually removing all the plist files had not. I think the magic "defaults" argument is key.

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