macOS 27 Fixes Three of My Biggest iPhone Mirroring Annoyances

iPhone Mirroring is one of those features I didn't think I needed until I started using it, and now I reach for it every single day. Being able to poke at my iPhone right from my Mac, without picking the thing up, has quietly become part of how I work. So when macOS 27 Golden Gate landed with three changes aimed squarely at it, I paid attention. Two of them fix gripes I've had since day one.

1. You can finally resize the window

This is the big one. Until now, iPhone Mirroring gave you fixed sizes: small, actual size, and larger. That was it. Pick your flavor and live with it.

In macOS 27, you can freely resize the iPhone Mirroring window, at least with apps that are updated for iOS 27. Right now that mostly means Apple's own apps, but once developers start shipping iOS 27 updates later this year, support should spread quickly. Personally, this is the change I'll feel most often, because the old preset sizes never quite matched whatever else I had open on screen.

There's also a bigger hint buried in here. A resizable mirroring window is exactly what you'd want if you were getting ready for a folding iPhone with a screen that changes shape. Make of that what you will.

2. Control Center finally works

This one drove me a little crazy before. With the old iPhone Mirroring, you simply couldn't get to Control Center at all. It just wasn't reachable.

Now it is.

In macOS 27 you can open it with the Cmd+4 keyboard shortcut, or from the "View" menu in your Mac's menu bar. Trust me on this one, if you ever toggle anything from Control Center on your phone, having it a keystroke away on the Mac is a genuine relief.

3. DRM video no longer shows a black screen

If you ever tried to watch a protected video through iPhone Mirroring, you already know the problem. DRM-protected content just rendered as a black rectangle. Useless.

macOS 27 adds DRM video support, so those protected videos actually play now. It's a small thing, but it's the kind of small thing that makes the whole feature feel less broken.

One bonus, for the icon nerds

There's also a fresh app icon for iPhone Mirroring in macOS 27, matching the redesign that's rolled out to a bunch of Apple's stock apps. Not a feature, exactly, but I notice these things.

My take

Look, I'm not saying iPhone Mirroring was unusable before. I used it every day anyway. But resizing, Control Center, and DRM video were the three rough edges I kept bumping into, and macOS 27 sanded all three down at once. For something I already lean on this hard, that's a great update.

If you've never gotten into iPhone Mirroring, this is a good moment to try it. And if you do use it and it ever refuses to connect, I've got a separate walkthrough on fixing that.