Press the “Advanced Settings” button and choose either Basic or Normal (text descriptions of each setting pop up to offer the benefits and tradeoffs of each as you hover over them).If it isn’t checked, your computer might not have a dedicated graphics processor so you’re done. Air Stylus works fine in this scenario.
Toward the bottom right, look for the “Use Graphics Processor” checkbox.First click to open the Photoshop menu, hover over Preferences and choose Performance.In the Photoshop “Performance” preferences, set the Advanced “Use Graphics Processor” settings to Basic. There are a few tricks to getting Air Display 3 to work correctly with Photoshop CS 5.x, 6.x, and CC.
For security, the Air Display Host doesn’t even connect to the Internet except to check for software updates. Your data is not stored to disk or sent anywhere. It just gets the pixels from the virtual display and streams them. Note: Although the permission we need for streaming the contents of the virtual video display is labeled “Screen Recording” by Apple, Air Display does not actually record anything.
To get the Air Display screen to update properly, you will just need to enable Screen Recording in the privacy settings. If you can’t, you’re almost there but have just one more step. If you are seeing a desktop image on your secondary device, you have successfully connected.Īt this point you should be able to drag Mac windows onto the Air Display screen. Note: If a complex network topology causes the devices to be on different local IP subnets you will need to use the ‘Connect to Other’ option to connect using the IP address of the display device. Likewise, you can’t connect via an HDMI cable. If you have an older Mac with a Mini DisplayPort video port, which happens to be physically identical to Thunderbolt 2, that won’t work because it doesn’t support a data connection. For Mac-to-Mac, that includes Ethernet, USB-C, Thunderbolt 2 or 3, Firewire 400 or 800, or any combination of those with the appropriate adapter. On iOS, Air Display 3 can also communicate over your charging cable, if you connect your Mac to your iOS device with that.įor a Mac-to-Mac or Mac-to-PC connection, Air Display can use any wired data connection that is compatible with the devices. So for example if your computer is wired via Ethernet to a network that has a Wi-Fi router, then your iPad can connect to your Mac via Wi-Fi-to-router-to-Ethernet.
It does not matter if the computer is using a wired connection versus a wireless connection. Air Display can connect wirelessly as long as your computer and the display device are on the same network.