You can't access the phone directly and screen mirroring is not a thing. iOS Screen Mirroring on Windows: Harder than it should beĪpple being Apple and always poking a stick into competitors' eyes, they don't make it easy to access iOS features from Windows. The same thing applies in a live presentation where attendees can't see your phone screen, and need the projected device screen to see what's happening. The screen mirroring allowed me to show the interaction between the development editor and my iPhone mobile device. In that post I showed how to use WebPack development Web server in Angular to live reload content directly on an iOS device and I used the Windows screen mirroring to capture the updates as part of a short screencast to demonstrate the feature: For me that's usually for a screen capture or potentially for a presentation of some sort.įor example here's a screencast capture in the aforementioned blog post. If you're doing Mobile Web development on Windows, it's probably not uncommon to run into a scenario where you need to display the content of the mobile device screen. So here's a short post that talks about the tool I'm using and how to set it up: After my last post about using Angular Live Reload on a Mobile Device, several people asked me what I was using for displaying my phone screen on my Windows machine.

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