Apple may have done the coolest drag and drop demo ever

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Reported today in The Verge.

Apple may have done the coolest drag and drop demo ever

At today's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple showed off its new version of macOS, and with it a feature called Universal Control, which lets you use your Mac's mouse or trackpad to control the cursor on an iPad or another Mac's screen, reaching into and across multiple devices. On paper it doesn't sound that groundbreaking, but Craig Federighi did something really cool during the demo: he moved his cursor onto an iPad, then clicked on a photo and dragged it across two other computers to drop it into a Final Cut timeline.

While Logitech's Flow and programs like Synergy have similarly allowed users to easily jump between computers, it's usually not this impressive in real life - some solutions require special hardware, some don't support actually dragging and dropping, and some have complicated setups. Apple's version seems seamless.

It is worth noting that, according to Apple's site, there are a few small caveats for Universal Control - it will only work with three devices (so Apple was showing its full capabilities in this demo), and it won't work on every device getting the new versions of macOS and iPadOS.

Here's the list of Macs can initiate Universal Control:

MacBook Pro (2016 and later)

MacBook (2016 and later)

MacBook Air (2018 and later)

iMac (2017 and later)

iMac (5K Retina 27-inch, Late 2015)

Mac mini (2018 and later)

iMac Pro

Mac Pro 2019

As for iPads, it'll work with:

iPad Pro

iPad Air (3rd generation and later)

iPad (6th generation and later)

iPad mini (5th generation and later)

While the feature does work with iPads, it has to be initiated on the Mac - if you were hoping to sling a file over to your Mac using an Apple Pencil or your finger, you're out of luck (as f

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