Apps that are in full screen or Split View, and desktop spaces you created, are shown as thumbnails in the Spaces bar along the top edge of the screen. Mission Control shows all of the windows open on the desktop of your Mac, arranged in a single layer so it’s easy to spot the one you need. The Luna Display is a 79.99 dongle that plugs into the USB-C or Mini DisplayPort hole on your Mac. These spaces will help you to organize your activities by providing more space (well, virtual space anyway) to work with than is available on your physical display. Spaces (introduced as part of Mission Control since OS X 10.7 “Lion”) allows you to spread your programs across up to 16 separate desktop areas. The dongle turns an iPad into a second display and a graphics tablet for your Mac. Thank to Astropad’s awesome Luna Display dongle for the Mac, your iPad Pro can actually become the primary display for your Mac mini. Remember to read the instructions for how to use an iPad as a display for an otherwise headless Mac mini. Mac mini is a BYOKDM purchase, meaning the miniature computer requires that you B ring Y our O wn K eyboard, D isplay and M ouse. However, if this happens to you, there are two methods to deal with it. Using Luna Display in headless mode allows you to turn your iPad or secondary Mac into the primary display for a Mac mini or Mac Studio. I’m not sure why and could find no discernible patter to this behavior. However, sometimes the Dock would wander off the Studio Display and onto the MacBook Pro laptop. With my work set-up I have the Studio Display as my main display with the laptop as an extended display. On your Mac, click on the Display icon in the menu bar, and underneath your connected iPad, you should see Hide SideBar and Hide Touch Bar.

The Dock is, of course, a utility on the Mac desktop that provides a convenient place to access apps and features that you’re likely to use every day. In order to make this work, you’ll need to pick up some USB to DisplayPort adapters.

With this method, you can use up to five monitors at the same time with the M1 MacBook Air and Pro, while the Mini can use up to six. There’s no great solution, but there are a couple of workarounds. One individual, Ruslan Tulupov, discovered a way to run up to six monitors at the same time when connected to an M1 Mac. After attaching an Apple Studio Display to my 16-inch MacBook Pro, I found that the Dock wouldn’t stay in place.

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