External Display BrowserXeOS Guides
Step-by-step guides for getting a real desktop out of your iPhone or iPad on a monitor, TV or projector, setup, YouTube, slideshows, presenting, files, and the browser.
How to Connect Your iPhone or iPad to a Monitor, TV or Projector, and Actually Fill the Screen
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 real desktop that uses every pixel the display has. This guide covers the whole setup once, and every other guide on this site assumes you have done it.
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How to Watch YouTube Full Screen on a TV or Monitor From Your iPhone or iPad
You have a TV, an iPhone and a cable, and you want the video to fill the screen, the whole screen, not a phone-shaped rectangle in the middle of it, without ads. That's a five-minute setup with XeOS, and this guide walks through all of it: signing in, going full screen, and the built-in ad blocker that makes the difference between "watchable" and "actually good".
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How to Run a Photo Slideshow on a TV From Your iPhone or iPad, Two Ways
Whether it's holiday photos on the living room TV or a looping display in a shop window, 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. Both are below.
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How to Present From Your iPhone or iPad When You Didn't Bring a Laptop
The projector is on, the room is waiting, and your laptop is at home. If you have your phone and a cable, you can still present, properly, full screen, with the slides you already have. This guide covers both routes: Google Slides (or PowerPoint on the web) in the browser, and the built-in viewer for a PDF you've already exported.
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How to Browse Your Files, iCloud Drive and External Drives From Your iPhone or iPad
iOS keeps files at arm's length: the Files app is fine for grabbing one document, but it isn't a place you can work. XeOS gives you a real file manager on the big screen, with a sidebar, two view modes, drag and drop, a trash, and it can mount folders from your phone, from iCloud Drive, and from a USB drive plugged into your adapter. Everything then opens in place, like a computer.
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How to Study and Work From Your iPhone: Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Office Files on a Big Screen
Writing an essay in a phone-sized text box is miserable. On a 24-inch monitor with a real keyboard it's just… writing. This guide covers using Google Drive, Docs and Sheets properly from an iPhone or iPad, opening Word, Excel and PowerPoint files you've been sent, and keeping documents somewhere you can actually reach them.
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How to Install Websites as Apps in Your Dock
The sites you use every day shouldn't be buried in a tab. XeOS lets you install any website into the dock, where it gets its own icon and opens in its own window, YouTube, Gmail, Sheets, Netflix, your work tools. This is the feature that makes the desktop feel less like a browser and more like a computer.
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The XeOS Browser: Tabs, Ad Blocking, Downloads, Reading Mode and Everything Else
The browser is the centre of XeOS, and it's a desktop browser rather than a mobile one, real tabs, a bookmarks bar, a downloads list, a password manager, an ad blocker, reader mode and find-on-page. This is the reference guide to all of it.
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Mouse, Keyboard and Shortcuts: Making It Feel Like a Real Computer
A desktop on a monitor is only half the story. What turns it into something you can work on for hours is input, a pointer that moves the way you expect, a keyboard whose shortcuts do the right thing, and a sensible fallback for when you have neither. This guide covers all three.
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How to Import Your Bookmarks and Passwords From Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Edge
A browser you have to type passwords into on a TV screen is a browser you won't use. Ten minutes of setup fixes that permanently: bring your bookmarks and saved logins across once, and from then on signing in to Google, YouTube, your bank or your work tools is a tap. This guide covers all four browsers.
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Device Layout Mode: What the Grey Button Does, and Why You Sometimes Need It
Next to the red, yellow and green window buttons there's a fourth, grey one shaped like a phone. Most of the time you'll never touch it. But every so often a page has something, a consent banner, a sign-in box, a payment field, that simply won't respond to a click on the external display. That's what the grey button is for, and this guide explains what's actually happening and how to work around it in about four seconds.
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