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Updated my MacBook Pro and wanted to try iPhone mirroring, but it says, "not available in your country or region." I live in Estonia. Why does Apple even do stuff like that? Why can't everybody enjoy new updates fully?
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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.0
Reddit is full of people saying they have it working by switching their region to US.
In any case, I've decided I'm content to wait till the feature conforms to EU norms. I trust the EU to be looking out for me, and until it complies, I'm probably leaking too much info to Apple.
Reddit is full of people saying they have it working by switching their region to US.
In any case, I've decided I'm content to wait till the feature conforms to EU norms. I trust the EU to be looking out for me, and until it complies, I'm probably leaking too much info to Apple.
iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPhone from your Mac
* You may see a message that iPhone Mirroring is unable to connect to iPhone because iPhone Mirroring is not available in your country or region. iPhone Mirroring is not currently available in the European Union.
Until or If this matter is resolved between Apple the Governing Body of the EU
There really is nothing we can do to help with this matter
Apple has restricted iPhone Mirroring in the EU due to compliance issues with the EU’s DMA regulations.
androweb wrote:
It’s same situation in Croatia.
Croatia is a member of the EU.
Yes, strange behavior from the corporation: we did this, we did that, but only users in the USA can use it. It's frustrating. At least remove those icons from our view so they don't keep catching our eye.
Just to add, you may want to do a search for a way to bypass the restriction. Personally, I wouldn't bother.
Ok, got my answer. Not that I really really want to use this app but was just wondering why these kind of restrictions exist. But got it, EU regulations.
Thanks!
No it does not. It is bound to your physical location, unrelated to what ID it is from. When you move to the US or China, it will be available automatically. I've lately tested it.
I trust the EU to be looking out for me
I trust the EU to be looking out for me /s
FTFY :-/
I have the region on both phone and mac set to US. But it doesn't work. Maybe you have to also change your region in your appleid, but be warned that will break any family sharing and subscriptions (families apparently can't span regions and subscriptions are region bound sometimes)
Ok I was wrong. I have a an US Apple ID as my main ID as I reside now in the EU I have made a local ID for media. Now I signed out the EU ID for media and purchase (not your main Apple ID) in my iPhone and signed in my US ID, the same as in my Mac, now it works :).
Konstnatin wrote:
but only users in the USA can use it. It's frustrating.
On the other hand you can use AppleWatch blood oximeter with devices sold outside USA :-/
"The ability to measure blood oxygen is no longer available on Apple Watch units sold by Apple in the United States on or after January 18, 2024."
Tested it out and it really is as simple as this, on Macbook open Apple Store, go to account settings and change Country Region to United States, click random address and zip code stuff and Done. iPhone mirroring works and its great :)
You're welcome.
Same here Welcome
iPhone mirroring not available in Estonia after updating my MacBook Pro
