Apple may offer a new way to extend its Mac displays to monitors and even iPads in the major macOS release for 2019, according to 9to5Mac.com
Apple has long touted the displays on its devices as being among the best around, with devices like the 2018 MacBook Pro supporting the cinematic DCI-P3 color space, and Apple’s Retina Displays offer pixel densities that keep visuals crisp.
The feature — referred to internally as “Sidecar” — is part of a new window management system coming in macOS 10.15. Users will be able to hover over the green maximize button on the macOS window bar and be presented with a variety of options, including the regular full-screen mode, new tiling options, and the ability to send that window straight to an external display without having to click and drag it over.
It sounds like a very similar UI to Moom, a popular window management app for macOS that does many of the same things. Apple is also said to be working on tools to snap windows to the side of displays, too, just like Microsoft has offered for years with Windows.
While using an iPad as a second screen already is useful, Apple is taking it one step further: iPad users will still be able to interact with apps with the Apple Pencil when it’s being used as an external screen, turning it into an ad hoc drawing tablet for your computer. It’s still not clear whether Apple’s system would work wirelessly or if you’d have to connect an iPad through a physical cable, nor did it say which iPads would support the feature.
