I'm unable to Screen Mirror iPhone 12 Pro to my MacBook Pro

The only solution that worked for me: Open settings. Go to desktop and dock. scroll down to widgets in desktop and dock. there I found iphone. Open iphone to the far right and there I saw two iphones listed. The one with the check mark was my old iphone, which I traded in for my iphone 15. I put a check amrk next to the new iphone and this error message disappeared and I was able to setup iphone mirroring. Maybe this will help someone, like it did me.

I have the same problem. I have a 27” iMac running macOS Sequoia 15.0 and my iPhone 11 iOS 18.0, both updated yesterday (18/9/2024, I am in the UK). I have exhausted the ‘community help’ online pages:

• My iPhone is less than 6 inches from my iMac
• I am signed into my iCloud account on both devices
• I have checked that my Apple ID on both are the same on both iMac and iPhone
• I have switched off Bluetooth and WiFi, restarted and switched on Bluetooth and WiFi
• I have restarted in ‘safe mode’ and run a ‘first aid’, then restarted again in normal mode
• I have trawled through the settings on both devices to check that all settings that should be checked are set to allow iPhone Mirroring to work

I still cannot get past the screen shown.

Is there any way to get iPhone Mirroring to work? I would really appreciate a solution as iPhone Mirroring would be very helpful for me?

In my case it is showing Time out - I am mirroring iPhone12 with MacBook Air M1 chip.

iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPhone from your Mac

Excerpt >>

iPhone Mirroring system requirements

iPhone Mirroring can be used with only one Mac and one iPhone at a time. Your devices must meet these requirements.

>> Your computer is a Mac with Apple silicon or Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip and is using macOS Sequoia 15 or later. <<

Does this 27" iMac contain a T2 Security Chip ?

Have been going through the same issue and nont seeing ends meet. Would have bee really usefull by apple to provide insights on how to fix this.

Sorry to report - Yup

To possible assist 🤞

Explore the Apple Trade-In  Process where the Value of the exiting device could be used against the cost of a new Apple Computer, iPhone or iPad 

Notation - Some devices and depending on the computers age may have little to no value at Trade In time.

But at least the device will not arrive to the Land Fill Site and be recycled in a responsible way by Apple

Or Shop Refurbished Apple computers at an Apple Reduced Cost

Have used both previously and have been satisfied each time.

Yes! Thankyou so much for this reply, this was exactly the issue that I was facing and having recently upgraded my iPhone, it was still listing my old phone and trying to connect to that preferentially!

This sorted the problem out immediately, and I doubt that this would ever have occurred to me on my own!

dyrector wrote:

I start the process of setting up my iPhone 12 Pro to mirror on my MacBook Pro running Sequoia, and it won't get passed the screen below. iPhone is running iOS 18.0, both devices have Bluetooth and WiFi on, and both devices are signed in to the same iCloud (Apple) ID account. I have rebooted both devices. And yes, the iPhone is right next to the MacBook Pro and powered on. I've checked all possibly relevant settings I can think of (e.g., no VPN is running). I am in the U.S.

Any thoughts out there? Anyone else running into this?

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e176fd37-1c7b-4000-bdb6-a474f5a3d977

I have seen some issue here yes.

To be proactive you can file a bug report / submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

KGeez00 wrote:

Thanks for that. Oh dear, time to invest in a new Mac!

tagging on to an existing post leads to confusion.

What I can say is there are issues w/ this new feature even running the latest hardware.

If your iMac is running Sequoia it at the least has a T2 chip— that is not your issue:

Mac computers with the Apple T2 Security Chip - Apple Support

macOS Sequoia is compatible with these devices

macOS Sequoia - Apple

Apparently my "Use iPhone widgets" setting got toggled off, not sure how. This must be toggled on in order to use iPhone Mirroring (System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Widgets):

Restart both devices

Yes! It worked. As someone said before, go to IMac settings>Desktop & Dock>Widgets> iPhone >Select ur iPhone model.

That’s it

me too. Please help.

After upgrading my MBP to macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 version I ran to the problem of iPhone Mirroring. To get it back to work took me a few days, so the solution is the following: Settings -> Sharing -> Accessories & Internet and get your Bluetooth sharing enabled. Simple is that.