How to Mirror an iPhone or iPad Screen to a Windows PC
If you have an iPhone, there are several ways to use it together with a Mac. Staying within the Apple ecosystem gives you access to several Continuity features like a universal clipboard, handing off Safari links, and many more.
But what if you have an iPhone and Windows laptop? Thankfully, you still have other means for making them work together. Here is how to mirror your iPhone to a PC.
Mirror Your iPhone Screen to a PC With LonelyScreen
Apple’s AirPlay protocol makes it easy to connect your iPhone to an Apple TV, HomePod, or other Apple products. But this does not work too for non-Apple devices, so you can’t mirror your iPhone to your laptop running Windows. That’s where the LonelyScreen application comes in.
This utility software would allow your Windows computer to posess AirPlay connections, so it is the key factor to this process. Search for LonelyScreen on google, and go to its website. You will see a download button under the Free Trial Download go ahead and install that on your system.
How to Cast Your iPhone to LonelyScreen
Next, open the Control Center of your iPhone. With the Control Center now open, you should be seeing a Screen Mirroring shortcut together with the other buttons. Tap that, and you will see a list of available AirPlay devices to connect to.
If everything went right so far, you should see your LonelyScreen server displaying on the list. Tap it to start mirroring your screen to your Windows PC.
From there, do whatever you’d like on your iPhone and you see it in real-time in the LonelyScreen window. You may want to maximize the window for a better view.
Mirroring your iPhone Screen to your laptop in this way does not let you control your phone through LonelyScreen, so you can’t click to navigate around your phone. However, it does let you create screen recordings with a built-in tool.
If you do not see the red button at the bottom of the LonelyScreen window, click on the small arrow that is in the bottom-right corner to expand the bottom panel. When you click the red Record button, LonelyScreen will start recording everything that is showing on your iPhone or iPad’s display.
Perform any whatever actions that you would like to record, then click the red button again to stop. The app will place the video file inside your user account’s Videos directory.
To close the connection, either deselect LonelyScreen from the Screen Mirroring shortcut in your iPhone Control Center or close the LonelyScreen app window on your PC.
Practical Uses for iPhone and iPad Screen Mirroring
You might be asking, why would you want to mirror your iPhone screen to your windows PC? Maybe you are giving a presentation and need an easy way to show your audience the steps on your iPhone. Thanks to LonelyScreen’s in-built recording feature, mirroring is also an easy way to record your screencasts on your iPhone.
Aside from this, having your phone’s contents displayed on a larger screen allows someone else to watch what you are doing easily. In a pinch, you could easily use it to play a video on your phone on a bigger screen without transferring the file. It would also allow you to monitor an application on your phone without reaching for it every time.
Note that aside from mirroring your screen, you can also use LonelyScreen to cast your media. Many applications have the AirPlay symbol, sometimes under the Share menu, and this allows you to cast them to your PC.
When playing music, for example, you can open up the Control Center and Force Touch on the Now Playing panel to send it to your PC through AirPlay.
