Updates

Recordings open in your video editor with their sound

Some video editors, Adobe Premiere Pro among them, imported AirMirror Pro recordings as video only, with no sound. The audio was in the file, but in the format the iPhone sends over AirPlay, which most players read and those editors do not. Recordings made before this update keep their old audio format.

Fixed

• Sound in video editors. Recordings now save their audio as standard AAC at 48 kHz stereo, the format video editors expect.
• Audio stays in sync for the whole recording, including after a pause in the iPhone's sound. Before, a long recording could slowly drift out of sync once it was in an editor.
• No missing sound at the start. Recordings used to begin with a short moment of silence.
• No flash at launch. In Simple view, the window no longer shows the Pro layout for a moment as it opens.

Smooth mirroring, all session long

A same-day fix on top of 3.1. Mirroring could turn choppy after a minute or two. We tracked down the cause, fixed it, and shipped this update as fast as we could.

Fixed

• Frame drops in longer sessions. Windows was acknowledging the incoming video too slowly. The iPhone's send queue filled up and it dropped frames, sometimes to under 10 fps, even on fast, healthy Wi-Fi. This was not new in 3.1: it had been there in earlier versions too. Mirroring now holds up to 60 fps for the whole session. A 7-minute test averaged 53 fps with almost no skipped frames.
• Delay stays low and steady instead of creeping up over a session.
• A small stutter in regular mirroring. Frames are now shown the moment they arrive.

Audio sync fixed

AirPlay audio sync is fixed. Sound no longer falls behind when a video starts, an ad plays, or you change speed. It stays locked to the picture the entire session.

New

• Choose your look in Settings: OLED Black, Classic Grey, Navy, or Light. The title bar matches on Windows 10 too.
• Performance Mode gives older and slower PCs a stable 720p at 30 fps experience.
• Recording now works on PCs without a hardware video encoder, up to 1080p.
• AirMirror Pro is now available in 22 languages, following your Windows language or your own choice in Settings.

Changed

• OBS Mode strips the window down to just the phone screen, no chrome, no borders, perfect for OBS Window Capture without a capture card.
• Recording settings are now simple. Low, Medium, High, or Best. Advanced options are still there if you want them.
• Redesigned menus, a clearer start screen, and a proper bug report tool under Help.

Fixed

• PCs with WSL, Hyper-V, VPN, or virtual network adapters were invisible to the iPhone. That's gone.

Control your iPhone from your PC

Your PC's mouse and keyboard now drive the iPhone you are mirroring. It is free, like mirroring. AirMirror Pro also moves to the Microsoft Store.

New

• Mouse control. Click the mirror window and your mouse moves the iPhone's pointer. Click, drag and scroll work the same as on the phone.
• Keyboard. Type into the iPhone with your PC keyboard, in your own keyboard layout, with Command shortcuts like copy and paste.
• Esc gives it back. Your cursor returns the moment you press Esc or switch to another window. Nothing is captured system-wide.
• Setup checklist. The first time, the app walks you through pairing the iPhone with your PC over Bluetooth and turning on AssistiveTouch.

Changed

• Now on the Microsoft Store. Signed by Microsoft, so there is no SmartScreen warning, and the Store keeps the app up to date for you.
• Pro is bought inside the app and stays with your Microsoft account, so there is no licence key to keep track of.

Recording fixes and new settings

Recordings start every time and play back at their full length, and a new Settings window puts quality, frame rate and smoothing in your hands.

New

• Settings (File → Settings, or Ctrl+,): mirror quality (Balanced, Native, Maximum), frame rate (60 or 30 fps) and smoothing (Off, Light, Full).
• Native resolution by default. On the test iPhone this delivered more than twice the pixels of 2.0.0, with fewer dropped frames. The measurements are on the specs page.

Fixed

• Recording could fail to start with an encoder error. Recordings now start and write complete, playable files.
• Windows showed recordings as 2–3 seconds long, however long they really were. They now play in full in Explorer and Media Player.
• The app would not open on PCs without the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime. The runtime now ships with the app.

Changed

• Free recordings stop at 5 minutes and carry a small watermark. The Record button says so before you start, and a capped recording is still a complete file. Mirroring is never timed.
• The app now shows its version and publisher in Properties and in Apps & features.

A new interface

The same phone, the same stream and the same frame rate. What changed is how much of the window your phone gets.

Changed

• Controls out of the way. Every control moved into a compact icon toolbar and a menu, and the log pane is off by default. Nothing was taken away.
• Nothing got slower. 61.8 fps after the redesign, against 61.4 fps before, with latency still in single-digit milliseconds.
• New licence keys. Keys issued from 2.0 onward do not activate on 0.1.0, so 0.1.0 users were asked to update.
• Plus many smaller fixes throughout.

Where it started

AirPlay receivers for Windows were mostly bad, and the good ones wanted a subscription. AirMirror Pro set out to be a good one that anyone could use. The first version was built in two days and three nights. A little over a month later came 3.0.

Choose your PC from Screen Mirroring on the iPhone and its screen appears on your PC, with no cable, no capture card and nothing to install on the phone.

In the first release

• AirPlay screen mirroring from an iPhone to a Windows PC.
• Recording, with the bitrate, output format and save location on screen beside the mirror.
• A 56 MB installer for Windows 10 or later, with no account needed.