How To Get Ipad Apps On Mac Catalina
Apple announced during its WWDC keynote that iOS apps will run on macOS, starting with the next major release of macOS this fall — macOS Catalina. Third-party developers will be able to release. If you need to run a 32-bit app, Apple unofficially recommends either that you keep an old Mac on hand that runs a pre-Catalina version of the OS or that you partition your current Mac so that it. Make sure iOS devices appear via Finder Preferences. With the death of iTunes in macOS, Apple shunted access to connected iPhones and iPads to the Finder via the Locations section of the sidebar. With another new macOS Catalina feature, Sidecar, you can use an Apple Pencil to draw on the app using an iPad as a second screen. Any changes on the Mac will be available on an iPhone or iPad. MacOS Catalina no longer has iTunes, so backing up your device on a Mac is a little different than it used to be. If you’re running MacOS Catalina, you’ll instead use the Finder app.
If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier or a Windows PC, use iTunes to share files between your computer and your iOS or iPadOS device.
Other ways to share
Learn about other ways you can share files between your Mac and your devices. These features work wirelessly.
iCloud Drive lets you securely access all of your documents from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC. No matter which device you're using, you'll always have the most up-to-date documents when and where you need them.
With Handoff, you can start a document, email, or message on one device and pick up where you left off on another device. Handoff works with Apple apps such as Mail, Safari, Maps, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. It also works with some third-party apps.
AirDrop lets you instantly share your photos, videos, documents, and more with other Apple devices that are nearby.
What you need to use the Finder to share files
- An iPhone, iPad, iPod touch with the latest version of iOS or iPadOS
- An iOS or iPadOS app that works with File Sharing
See the iOS and iPadOS apps that can share files with your Mac
- Open a Finder window.
- Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your computer with a USB cable.
- Select your device in the Finder. Learn what to do if your computer doesn't recognize your device.
- Click the Files tab to see a list of apps that can share files. If you don't see a Files section, your device doesn't have any apps that can share files.
- Click the triangle next to an app to see the files that you can share.
Copy from your Mac to your device
- Select the files that you want to copy. Select only files that work with the app. Check the app’s user guide to see which ones work.
- Drag the files to the app on your device. The Finder copies the files to your device.
Copy from your device to your Mac
- Select the files that you want to copy.
- Drag the files to a folder on your computer. The Finder copies the files to your computer.
Open shared files
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, use the app that you chose in the Files tab to open files that you shared from your computer.
Depending on the file type, some apps can't open files in other apps or locations. You can see the list of files in the Files tab of the Finder when your device is connected to your computer.
Back up shared files
When iCloud or your computer backs up your device, it backs up your shared files as well.
If you delete an app with shared files from your iOS or iPadOS device, you also delete those shared files from your device and your iCloud or computer backup. To avoid losing shared files, copy the files to your computer before deleting the app from your device.
Delete shared files from your device
- Open a Finder window on your Mac.
- Connect your device to your computer using a USB cable.
- Select your device in the Finder. Learn what to do if your computer doesn't recognize your device.
- Select the app from the list in the Files section.
- In the Documents list, select the file that you want to delete, then press the Delete key on your keyboard.
- When the Finder asks you to confirm, click Delete.
There might be other ways to delete files from an app. See the app's user guide to find out more.
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New versions of operating systems are usually about slick interfaces and improved performance, but that's not what Apple was flogging about macOS Catalina upon its release Monday.
One of the hot new additions in the OS is Apple Arcade, a game subscription service featuring a batch of new, exclusive games.
Also bolstering macOS Catalina's entertainment chops are new versions of Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV apps.
The company paved the way for emphasis on services over other features at its annual shindig for developers in June.
'It mirrors what we saw at the WWDC where these products were announced,' said Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research, a consumer technology advisory firm in New York City.
Subscription Gaming
Arcade, available for a monthly subscription fee of US$4.99, could be an attractive offering for Mac users. 'It's a big shot in the arm for Mac games, which hasn't been a traditional strength of the platform,' Rubin told TechNewsWorld.
Games in Arcade can be played across devices, so a game started on a Mac can be continued later on an iPhone or iPad.
On a Mac, games can be played with a keyboard and mouse, or even with some popular game controllers -- like Xbox Wireless Controllers with Bluetooth, and PlayStation DualShock 4.
Subscribers to arcade get a full version of every game, including all updates and expansions, without any ads or additional in-game purchases. Games can be downloaded from the Mac App Store's brand-new Arcade tab.
The service is launching with a 30-day free trial, and a single subscription includes access for up to six family members. The full catalog of 100 games will be available in the weeks ahead, with more games to come every month.
'Arcade is great from a value viewpoint -- Apple priced it very competively -- and there are some cool mainstream games on it, but hard core gamers -- the kind of folks who buy Alienware PCs or have Xbox or Playstation 5 -- aren't going to get the same kind of experience,' said Mark N. Vena, senior analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy, a technology analyst and advisory firm in Austin, Texas.
'I wouldn't upgrade to Catalina just to use Arcade,' he told TechNewsWorld.
Blowing Up iTunes
With Catalina, Apple has retired the iTunes app (but not the iTunes Store) and replaced it with three new entertainment apps.
There's Apple Music, which has 50 million songs, playlists and music videos. Subscribers to the service have access to the entire music library. Non-subscribers can still purchase music from the iTunes Store.
There's also a podcast app. It offers more than 700,000 shows and will notify you when a new episode to a show you've subscribed to is available. New show categories, curated collections, and advanced search tools to allow you to search episodes by current events, people and even phrases have been added to the app.
Finally, there's Apple TV, which gathers together a number of ways to find and watch the more than 100,000 TV shows and movies in the iTunes store. In addition, starting on November 1, Apple TV+, the company's subscription service, will be available in the Mac's TV app.
'Creating three apps is really important, because iTunes had become so bloated over the past 10 years that a lot of people had given up using it,' said Moor's Vena, who has been using a beta of Catalina for two months.
'Those apps are pretty user-friendly, too,' he added.
From iPad to Sidecar
Catalina is more than a gateway for apps to Apple services, however.
A feature called 'Sidecar,' for instance, allows an iPad to be used as a second display.
The iPad also can be used for tablet input for any Mac app that supports drawing, sketching or writing with a stylus.
An iPad can be connected to a Mac through Sidecar by cable or Bluetooth.
Many mobile workers travel with a tablet and work with a laptop when they're home or at the office, so Sidecar would be useful to them, noted Lauren Guenveur, senior research analyst at IDC, a market research company in Framingham, Massachusetts.
'It's also a way to get more people into the ecosystem,' she told TechNewsWorld. 'If they have a MacBook Pro, they may now more seriously look at an iPad, and if they have an iPad, they may be looking at a MacBook Pro.'
Sidecar makes a lot of sense for owners of MacBook Pros and iPads, Reticle's Rubin said.
How To Get Ipad Apps On Mac Catalina Version
'There's a market for external displays for laptops, but if you have an iPad, you can use that. Not only can you extend your screen, but you can do input too,' he pointed out.'It helps to address some of the limitations of the Mac not having a touchscreen.'
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Catalina has some accessibility features that may be useful to folks both with and without disabilities. Voice Control, for example, allows you to access any part of the Mac or iOS interface entirely with your voice.
'Voice Control is the most impressive feature of Catalina technically,' Rubin said. 'It's the result of years of R&D work.'
Catalina also supports a technology called 'Catalyst,' which allows developers to package their iPad apps for the Mac more easily.
'Developing more applications for the Mac by leveraging a lot of the momentum behind iPad apps isn't a user-facing feature, but it should help generate a lot of new functionality as developers are able to support the Mac with just an incremental effort,' Rubin noted.
Catalyst raises the question of whether macOS and iOS will converge into a single AppleOS operating system in the future.
'There will continue to be more crossover, but I don't think we'll see a time in the future where macOS and iOS become one and the same,' IDC's Guenveur said.
Apple also is bringing Screen Time, Downtime and App Limits to the Mac through Catalina. Screen Time tells you how much time you're spending with apps and websites on your Mac. Downtime lets you schedule time away from your Mac, and App Limits lets you set limits on time spent with apps.
'Bringing Screen Time to the Mac is important because it allows people to control and manage how they're using their computers,' Vena said.
One thing that may be problematic for Catalina users is its inability to run older 32-bit applications, he remarked.
'I would suggest people look at what 32-bit applications they have installed before they upgrade to Catalina and make sure there are 64-bit versions available,' said Vena, 'because those apps will absolutely not work in Catalina.'
John P. Mello Jr. has been an ECT News Network reporter since 2003. His areas of focus include cybersecurity, IT issues, privacy, e-commerce, social media, artificial intelligence, big data and consumer electronics. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including the Boston Business Journal, the Boston Phoenix, Megapixel.Net and Government Security News. Email John.