Select the TV you are screen mirroring to as the destination to unselect it and stop screen mirroringĪirPlay is a really great feature with a lot of intriguing capabilities, and it’s not just limited to sending your Mac screen our for mirroring on a TV or another device.

You can stop screen mirroring at any moment: How to Disconnect Screen Mirroring on Mac to TV If you only want to mirror a video, you can usually select the TV as the destination from most video players, for example with YouTube you can AirPlay directly from YouTube in the Safari browser on the Mac, which will just send the video to the TV, rather than the entire Mac desktop and screen. Note that the Mac screen resolution may change to accommodate the resolution of the TV, but you can adjust resolution of the display(s) in System Preferences > Displays > Resolution as you see fit. This will output everything on the Mac screen to the TV. Now your Mac screen is mirrored to the TV, courtesy of AirPlay.

Give the Mac and TV a moment and soon the Mac screen will be mirrored on the TV, wirelessly.

In a moment, a code will appear on the TV screen, then enter that code on the Mac when requested.

Select the TV from the available screen mirroring devices.

Click on “Screen Mirroring” in Control Center.

On the Mac, click the Control Center icon in the menu bar.From the TV, select “AirPlay” as the TV input.We’ll be covering how to mirror a MacBook Pro to a TV by using AirPlay in macOS Monterey.

If the TV doesn’t natively support AirPlay, then many devices and boxes like Apple TV or Roku include support, so you always connect one of those to the TV instead and then mirror the Mac to it. If your TV supports mirroring from a Mac (or iPhone, or iPad for that matter), then “AirPlay” will be available as one of the input options on the TV. AirPlay support is included in many modern TV’s from LG, Samsung, Sony, Vizio, usually from the 2018 or newer model years.

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