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How to use iPad in portrait with Sidecar with macOS Sequoia

Apple has finally updated Sidecar to allow you to extend your Mac screen onto an iPad when it’s in portrait, not just landscape. For now, though, it’s fiddly, but here’s how to do it.

We’ve only waited five years for Sidecar to recognise an iPad in portrait

Five years after Apple introduced Sidecar with macOS Catalina, it has given it a much-wanted update. Previously Sidecar would only extend a Mac’s display onto an iPad in landscape, regardless of what way around the device was being held or mounted.

There was a fairly contorted workaround that would make it happen with the use of a third-party app. But now with macOS Sequoia 15.1 and iPadOS 18.1, you can just turn on Sidecar and then physically rotate your iPad.

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