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Have you used an iPad as a second monitor?

How has your experience been so far?

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paras chhugani • Edited

I want a second screen for my ios development. I am confused between iPad 8th gen and a monitor ...
Ipad is costing me 21,570 RS and monitor + second-hand iPhone is costing me 18,500 RS ..
If I buy an iPad i will use it for second screen and app testing, and monitor for same.

Can anyone help me here.....

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Tony Dehnke

I've been using my 10.5" Pro with Duet Display for a long time now and love it.

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Maegan Wilson

Iโ€™ve done it a couple times with Side Car. Itโ€™s been pretty useful and definitely gets the job done. I wouldnโ€™t do it full time. I also wouldnโ€™t enjoy it as much if I didnโ€™t have the 12.9โ€ iPad Pro.

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Vรญtฤ›zslav Ackermann Ferko

I am using Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 as my second monitor, it comes with a nice stand too and the resolution is great together with a 4k XPS 13.

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Peter Witham

I do use it as a second and sometimes third display like many have commented. I have played around with Sidecar and it works OK, but I still use my LunaDisplay adapter more. I find it works great for me since I lean towards using second+ screens for things like reference materials or monitoring Slack, those sort of 'glance at them' apps for the most part.

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John Johnson

I've found sometimes my iPad Pro will disconnect when using sidecar. The trick/hack I use to get it to reconnect is to click the sidecar/iPad icon in the top right and click mirror display then I switch it back to separate display.

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oh hi mark ๐Ÿ‘‹

I too just bought an iPad Pro 11โ€ (pro tip amazon sells them โ€œrenewedโ€ for cheap). Iโ€™m using it in many ways including an extra monitor. A while back I purchased the Luna Display, it makes things very consistent and retains quality โ€” highly recommended for power users. I also saw someone on YouTube who uses the new raspberry pi as their mobile work environment that they connect to iPad. Very interesting.

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Lindsay Iveson

Yes! Before updating to MacOS Catalina, I used an app called Duet and it was great! The downside was that I had to connect my iPad to my Macbook Pro (so many dongles) and pay about $10.

But since updating, I now use sidecar, and that's been very smooth and I really like it.

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Alexander Alemayhu

Other than the connectivity issues, the sidecar is amazing! I put several terminals on there or desktop apps I am working on. Feels much better and so nice to not have to deal with the cables :D

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Front-End Developer for Hire

I've been using my iPad Pro 9.7 as a second monitor on my 13" MBP for the past couple years and it's been great. I've been using it with Duet.