The question you might be asking is how well can you actually drive a Mac with an iPad driven by your big fat finger? Now that it’s installed and we’ve talked about security, can we finally play with it? The first thing I’d like to say is that it’s really responsive, at least within my WiFi network. If I’d done it on my iPhone X, it would require Face ID to get into my Mac. On my iPad, it now requires my fingerprint to get into my Mac. I also found a setting that allowed me to protect my connection to my Mac with the biometrics of IOS. I have to say that’s pretty great response time. I tweeted them, and in less than an hour they wrote back, acknowledged the mistake (it really is TLS), AND fixed the website. When I was first reading their website, I noticed they referenced the deprecated SSL in one place, but the current standard of TLS on their FAQ page. They say that they use SSH and TLS for secure transfer of data which is all the right words. Jump Desktop is a true RDP and VNC client. SecurityĪnd that brings us to the security portion of this review. The crazy thing is that this setup process also allows you to access your computer from your mobile device when it’s not even on the same network. The main thing I’m trying to convey is that it’s about 30 seconds to set up Jump Desktop to access your computer. Ok, maybe the smoke is cheesy but I think it’s cool. Tap it once and in a few seconds you’ll be rewarded with this cool smoke coming out of a black background and then you’ll see your desktop screen. Simply authenticating changes Jump Desktop Connect to say that your email address can now remotely access this computer.īack on the mobile device, in Jump Desktop you’ll now see a happy button with the name of your computer just begging to be selected. Tap Add a User and you’ll be directed to click a link that opens your web browser to create an account with Jump Desktop or to authenticate if you already have an account. Jump Desktop Connect has one main button that says Add a User. Armed with the app installed on the mobile device, you launch Jump Desktop Connect on your PC/Mac. The automatic installation is so fast and easy that I didn’t even get a chance to capture screen captures before it was done! I had to kill it and start over to remember how to do it. As nerdy as the NosillaCastaways are, if there’s an easy path and a hard one … which one would you pick? The other option is called Automatic and it’s designed for people who don’t want to fool around with network settings and complex configurations. I read the instructions (clearly created in Clarify a long time ago) and got bored a third of the way through. You can do it manually which is a big fat pain. There are two ways to connect to your desktop. You buy the mobile app as described, and then you install Jump Desktop Connect on your Mac/PC. If you use iOS and Android though, you have to buy a license for each. If you buy it on Android, it works on all of your Android devices to drive all of your Macs and PCs. If you buy it for iOS it works on all of your iOS devices to drive all of your Macs and PCs. The second thing to like is that it’s available for Android too, and it can control both Macs and PCs. The first thing to like is that Jump Desktop is only $15 for iOS. I hadn’t heard of Jump Desktop before, so I decided to check it out. This week, Tim Chaten of Club Nintendo and the iPad Pro Podcast mentioned on Twitter that he uses an app called Jump Desktop from to control his Mac from his iPad. In any case, I never went forward with a purchase of Screens. I wish I’d documented the problem, but it’s possible the version in SetApp was limited in some way. When I had a SetApp subscription I gave it a whirl and it didn’t do what I wanted. I’ve heard Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab talk often about Screens and how well it works for him. In any case, it would be slick to be able to have my 12.9″ iPad act like a Mac. Maybe because I’ve walked 9 miles already? While I run/walk over 9 miles a day and around 18,000 steps, the idea of going up the stairs to do something quickly on my laptop when I’m all comfy in my easy chair in front of the TV is exhausting. The problem to be solved is pure laziness. For a long time I’ve wanted an app that would allow me to control my Mac from my iPad.
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