Because of the wide variety of routers out there, allowing forwarding to those ports is beyond the scope of this walkthrough, but you should be able to do it quickly yourself. Also, Mac OS X is a desktop OS and obviously not built for touch, so it can be a bit clunky to attempt anything too serious with the controls as is.įinally, a potential hiccup if you want to remotely access the Mac from the outside world comes with firewalls and routers, each of which may block the VNC ports 59 from the outside world. How usable the remote screen sharing is going to depend significantly on connection speeds, and any connection over a LAN or high speed broadband will be much more usable than a connection from an iPhone or iPad out on a 3G connection trying to VNC back home. Summon a keyboard to work on the Mac by tapping the keyboard icon in the Mocha VNC menu bar. Now you’re remotely connected to the Mac, right from the iPhone or iPad.Ĭontrolling the Mac can be done with tapping, touch, tap and hold, and other mostly obvious gestures. A gray screen saying “Connecting” will appear before the VNC session is established, in a moment the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch will gain control over the Mac screen.Now back to the main Mocha VNC menu and tap “Connect” to connect to the Mac just configured.Look for “Mac OS X user ID” and enter the login ID, then enter the password in the field below.Look for “VNC server address” and tap the (>) blue arrow button to locate a local Mac, or enter the IP address of the Mac to connect to.Launch the VNC client app in iOS and tap “Configure”.From the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you’ll need a VNC client, like VNC Viewer, or Mocha VNC Lite, from the App Store (both are free VNC clients, we’re using Mocha for the article here).First things first, turn on Screen Sharing on the Mac if you haven’t done so by going to the  Apple menu > System Preferences > Sharing and checking the box for “Screen Sharing”.How to Remotely Access a Mac from iPhone / iPad with VNC A variety of paid solutions offer the same abilities described here, but we’ll show you how to do this completely for free and have it working in just a minute or two. There is minimal work involved to get this working, and if you already set up Screen Sharing you’re halfway there.

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