How to temporarily use an iPad as a monitor for a desktop
by Poster
May 13, 2025
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Let me talk about my situation. I usually go out with my desktop, ipad and macbook. I am now thinking is there any way to temporarily make the ipad connect to the desktop to use as a monitor? My main need is that I don't want to bring an extra monitor for my desktop, so I can use my macbook to connect remotely, but the desktop needs to enter a password, public wifi needs connection authentication, etc. After the connection is successful, I still need to get the ip to connect remotely from my macbook. Is there any way I can temporarily make a monitor with my ipad at this stage? Or there are other ways to temporarily connect a screen to the desktop.
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Anonymous3225 May 13, 2025Get a capture card, connect it to a desktop computer and plug it into an ipad?
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Anonymous373 May 13, 2025Sell your macbook and replace it with a portable screen, and you can have several good meals with the rest of the money. Don't think about messing around You have a desktop, you must have a car, and the portable screen doesn't weigh much more I can't think of any scenario where you need to carry a desktop + notebook + tablet with you
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Anonymous618 May 13, 2025First open a hotspot for the desktop computer and connect it remotely. Open a third-party remote desktop such as toDesk and rustDesk, and then connect to public wifi. In this way, you can operate through the third-party remote desktop. You can also see the LAN IP and then switch to WindowsApp to connect.
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Anonymous618 May 13, 2025There is another way, you use maccbook to allocate a fixed IP to your PC with a hotspot all the time. You can always use this IP to connect to your PC. As for your macbook, you can connect it to any wifi.
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Anonymous3226 May 13, 2025Wired method of using iPad as PC display iPad: Software Twomon SE (https://apps.apple.com/id/app/twomon-se/id1420380805) (Taobao cheap) PC: Download iTunes from Apple's official website (driver provided) and EL Display Hub (https://www.easynlight.com/en/twomonse)
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Anonymous3227 May 13, 2025Desktop remotely connected to Macbook, and then Macbook remotely connected to iPad? Matryoshka dolls? Level
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Anonymous2040 May 13, 2025In the early years, I bought Duet Display as an extended display for PC, but it didn't work well and returned it. I don't know if it will work as the main monitor now.
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Anonymous3228 May 13, 2025I will know this question : Splashtop Wired XDisplay This APP is free. You only need to install programs on your desktop and iPad, and then connect USB and iPad.
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Anonymous3229 May 13, 2025Use this https://github.com/qiin2333/Sunshine-Foundation/releases
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Anonymous3229 May 13, 2025Sloppy. It turns out you use mac.
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Anonymous2508 May 13, 2025Capture card, ipad usbc interface ios 17 after there is software that can receive the signal from the capture card.
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Anonymous704 May 13, 2025Capture card, used for two years
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Anonymous3230 May 14, 2025Buy a 7-inch portable screen
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Anonymous3231 May 14, 2025Wouldn't it be nice to bring your own router
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Anonymous7837 May 14, 2025hdmi collector, very cheap, many free software
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Poster May 14, 2025I forgot to mention, is my ipad 9 or the previous lighting port? Is the capture card road not working now?
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Anonymous704 May 20, 2025@ Poster doesn't work because the l port is USB2 and the bandwidth (speed 480m) is not enough. Similarly, none of the physical wired plans are suitable, and you can only consider the Wi-Fi plan.