Connect your iPhone or iPad to a monitor, TV, or projector. XeOS fills the entire external display, leaving no black bars.
Compare standard mirroring with XeOS, then see how windows, files, media, and controls work on the connected screen.
Black bars on a big external monitor or portable display are genuinely annoying. XeOS: External Display Browser fills the whole screen edge to edge, YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, everything.
Open as many windows as you need and arrange them the way you would on a desktop: drag, resize, stack, full screen, and a Mission-Control style overview of everything that is open.
Open supported cloud gaming services in XeOS and play across the whole external display with a paired controller.
Pair a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and it just works: cursor, scrolling, shortcuts. It's the closest thing to Samsung DeX that iPhone has ever had.
Files is a proper file manager: mount your iCloud Drive, a USB-C SSD or a folder on the iPhone itself, and copy, move, compress and open anything across all of them on the big screen.
Download anything the web gives you and open it right there: the PDF viewer annotates and signs, and Word, Excel and PowerPoint files preview at full desktop size.
Your photo library opens on the external display, plays as a full-screen slideshow on a TV, and the built-in image, video and audio players, Notes and Calculator are all there when you need them.
The apps drawer holds every built-in app and every site you installed as an app, and the search overlay finds apps, files and answers instantly, without lifting your hands off the keyboard.
Use a USB-C cable or adapter. Add a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard if you want them; the on-screen controls work too.
Plug your iPhone or iPad into an external monitor, portable monitor, TV or projector using a USB-C to HDMI or USB-C to USB-C adapter. XeOS: External Display Browser detects the connection automatically and fills every pixel of the screen.
Pair a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for a full browser experience on your external display, the best Samsung DeX alternative there is for iPhone. Works great with on-screen controls too.
Manage files, annotate PDFs, preview Office docs, play media, and browse the web full screen. Install your favorite sites as standalone apps. No black bars, ever.
Browser windows, files, media, documents, and input controls built for the connected screen.
Install your favorite websites as standalone apps. Float multiple windows, drag and resize them to keep everything you need visible at once.
Watch YouTube, Netflix, Twitch or any online video in complete full screen on your external monitor. No sidebars, no black bars, just pure full-screen video that fills the whole display.
Built-in photo, video, and audio players for your media. Stay productive with integrated Notes and Calculator apps.
A complete file system to manage your downloads. Open and annotate PDFs, and preview Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents directly on the big screen.
Pair a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard to your iPhone and get the full desktop browsing experience on your external monitor. Cursor, scroll, shortcuts, all fully supported.
Connects via USB-C or HDMI to any external monitor, portable monitor, TV or projector. XeOS: External Display Browser automatically adapts to the screen’s native resolution for crisp, corner-to-corner display, whether it’s a permanent desk setup or a portable display on the go.
Play supported cloud gaming services across the full external display with your controller, including Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna, GeForce NOW, and more.
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Install XeLink on your Mac, then open Screen Sharing in XeOS. Every Mac window or a whole display becomes a XeOS window you can click, scroll and type in.
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Safari · Chrome · Edge Firefox · Car Display
Turn on Mirror XeOS in Screen Sharing and open its link on any computer, tablet, phone or car display on the same Wi‑Fi. Watch the desktop live and drive it from there.
How to
Plugging an iPhone into a TV is easy. Getting a usable screen out of it is the hard part. Stock iOS mirrors your phone, so a 16:9 monitor shows a tall phone-shaped picture floating between two black bars. XeOS replaces that mirror with a desktop that uses every pixel the panel has. Do the setup on this page once and the rest of the guides here will assume you've done it.
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You have a TV, an iPhone and a cable, and you want the video to fill the screen rather than sit in a phone-shaped rectangle in the middle of it. With XeOS that takes about five minutes: sign in, go full screen, and leave the built-in ad blocker doing its job.
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Holiday photos on the living room TV, or a looping display in a shop window. Either way you don't need a computer, a media player or a smart TV app. An iPhone, a cable and XeOS will fill any screen with your photos. There are two routes, your own photo library or a Google Photos album in the browser, and they suit different jobs.
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Everything you need to know about using your iPhone with an external display.
Short version: no. The iPhone Duo brought Split View to the iPhone for the first time, so you can have two apps open side by side on the inner screen. That's it for multitasking. Plug it into a monitor and you still get a mirror of the phone, two windows at most, scaled up and surrounded by black space. Below is what the Duo actually adds, what happens on an external display, and how the XeOS app finally gives you a real multi-screen desktop mode.
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The iPhone Duo finally lets an iPhone show two apps at once. What it still doesn't do is what Samsung DeX has done since 2017: turn the phone into a desktop when you plug it into a monitor. Here's where the Duo stops, and how to get a DeX-style desktop on an external display with it today, with the Duo's own screen working as a second display alongside.
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Short version: no. iOS 27 did add a few multitasking features, but only for the iPhone Duo, and nothing for any other iPhone. Plug a regular iPhone into a monitor with iOS 27 and you still get a mirror, phone-shaped, floating between two black bars. Below is what iOS 27 actually changed, what it didn't, and how to get a desktop on a big screen without waiting for Apple.
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The best Samsung DeX alternative for iPhone and iPad, bringing a desktop experience that actually works!
When you connect an iPhone to an external monitor or portable display, standard apps fill the unused space with black bars because they are designed for iPhone’s portrait screen. XeOS: External Display Browser renders the browser UI to fill the full landscape resolution of the connected display, no black bars on top, bottom or sides. Every pixel of your external monitor, portable display, TV or projector is used.
XeOS: External Display Browser is packed with everything you need for a full-screen browser experience on your iPhone external display, everything a Samsung DeX alternative for iPhone should have:
Download XeOS and instantly transform any monitor, TV, or projector into a powerful workstation. The best Samsung DeX alternative for iOS.
File System • Document & Media Apps • Installable Web Apps • Full Screen
