

It’s strange and exciting all at the same time, but once you settle into your workflow, it makes you wonder why this hasn’t been an obvious product pairing for Apple all along. When you launch Luna, you’re running your macOS on your iPad and when you close out of the Luna app, you have a regular iPad Pro again. There’s definitely an element of inception to using your iPad as a display for your Mac. The iPad Pro has such a large and beautiful screen, that of course you’d want to find a way to use it in your workflow.īut still, this setup was mind-blowing in other ways.

In many ways, it was so obvious and second-nature to use the iPad as your main display. Our initial thought when we got Luna up and running with the Mac mini was ‘this is like a whole new Apple product!’ It really felt like that. We were curious to see if Luna could also turn the iPad into the primary display for Mac mini. Luna works over Wi-Fi, so you can wirelessly connect your Mac and iPad into one workspace. To bring our idea to life, we used Luna Display-hardware that turns the iPad into a second display for your Mac. Because Luna Display lets you draw with your finger or stylus in Mac apps using your tablet, their setup includes a second-generation Apple Pencil, too. All you need to do is plug the adapter into a USB-C port on your Mac, download the Astropad apps for iOS and macOS and connect both devices to a fast, reliable Wi-Fi network.Īstropad’s setup also includes Apple’s Magic accessories like the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse 2.
