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Your iPhone as a remote for your Mac
The iPhone app is a remote. When you tap a tile, scan an NFC tag, arrive home or press the Apple Watch button, it writes a request to your private iCloud and your Mac does the work with its own permissions. Nothing runs on the phone. If the Mac is asleep, the request waits and runs when it wakes.
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What it does
You sit down at the desk and tap the NFC tag by the keyboard.
Morning setup runs on the Mac before you reach for the mouse. For a tag to work with the app closed, write the link switchboard://nfc?tag=<id> onto it with any NFC writer app.
You come home with the Mac asleep.
An Arrive sensor for a place, with a range between 100 and 500 metres, asks the Mac to run your macro. The request waits if the Mac is asleep and runs when it wakes. A request that has waited more than a day is offered to you for cancelling; it does not run late.
An agent wants to run a destructive macro while you are across the room.
A card appears on the Pad, and a notification arrives with Approve, Deny and Review. Review shows the macro’s steps as sentences, the waiting one marked, with a countdown. The Watch shows the same request. Approving from a notification asks for Face ID.
You start a long export from the Pad.
After ten seconds a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island shows the step the Mac is on, a progress bar and a Stop button. It turns green or red when the run ends.
You plug the phone in at your desk.
A Charging started sensor runs a macro on the Mac, but it isn’t guaranteed to fire. For a guarantee, make a Shortcuts automation “When Charger is connected” that runs Run Macro on Mac.
How it works
- Expose a macro. It shows up on the iPhone’s Pad a moment later, under the Mac it belongs to.
- Add sensors on the Sensors tab: Arrive, Leave, NFC tag, charging, Focus or the Watch button.
- Answer approvals from the Pad, a notification or the Watch. Run macros from Shortcuts, Siri, a widget or Control Center too.
Read the docs
- iPhone and Apple WatchDescribes what the iPhone and Apple Watch apps do: a Pad of tiles that run macros on your Mac, Sensors that start them, Approvals you answer from your wrist or pocket, and the Shortcuts, widget and Control Center actions that go with them.
- Shortcuts, Siri and SpotlightRun, rehearse and manage your macros from the Shortcuts app, Siri and Spotlight on the Mac, including an extension's own actions.
- PrivacyLists exactly what stays on your Mac, what goes to iCloud, what a shared macro leaves out, what the AI features send, and what an agent can see.