// INPUT & AUTOMATION GUIDE

Control iPhone from Mac with Full Keyboard & Mouse Support

By Kamil Bourouiba · Updated August 2026 · 4 min read

Mirroring your iPhone screen to Mac is only half the battle. To be truly productive, you need two-way interaction: clicking icons, dragging through feeds, and typing long messages with your Mac's physical keyboard.

How Mouse & Touch Translation Works in MirrorUE

Unlike video-only tools like QuickTime, MirrorUE establishes a bidirectional CoreDevice UniversalHID channel alongside the USB video stream. Every pointer movement and click is converted in real time into normalized capacitive touch coordinates:

Typing with AZERTY, QWERTY & International Layouts

When you press a key on your Mac keyboard, MirrorUE reads the native macOS virtual keycode and characters, maps it through an internal HID keytable, and sends standard USB HID keyboard reports to the connected iOS device.

This allows instant typing in WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Notes, Slack, or web browsers without touching your phone.

Developer & QA Automation Workflows

For mobile app developers and QA engineers, MirrorUE provides a local HTTP automation API (http://127.0.0.1:8080) allowing headless test runners, CI scripts, or LLM agents to inject clicks and type text programmatically:

# Send a tap event at (x: 200, y: 450)
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8090/v1/tap \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"x": 200, "y": 450}'

# Type text into the active field
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8090/v1/type \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "Automated QA test login"}'