Trackpad

Your iPhone is your Mac’s trackpad.

Download for Mac Get the iPhone beta
The Trackpad surface on an iPhone: a clean black canvas with gesture hints.

No cables.
No network.
No setup.

Discovery

Your Mac just appears.

Trackpad finds your Mac over the same radio AirDrop uses. No shared Wi-Fi network, no IP addresses — open the app and it’s there.

The connect screen: Charles’s MacBook Pro discovered under Macs Nearby, with a pairing code field.

Setup

Start with the free Mac app.

Download Trackpad Server, drag it to Applications, and open it. It sits in your menu bar and shows a four-digit pairing code — the only thing your iPhone ever asks for.

Download for Mac

The Trackpad Server installer window: drag the app onto the Applications folder.

Gestures

Everything your fingers already know.

Tap to click. Two fingers to scroll or right-click. Tap, then hold, to drag. The cursor accelerates the way a real trackpad does.

The full-screen trackpad surface.

Paired with a code.
Nothing leaves the room.

Your Mac shows a four-digit code. Your iPhone asks for it once. Every other connection is refused, and no traffic ever touches the internet.

Specs

Connection
Peer-to-peer Wi-Fi (AWDL) with Bonjour discovery. Falls back to your local network automatically.
Latency
Single-digit milliseconds, direct device to device.
Gestures
Move, click, double-click, right-click, two-finger scroll, drag.
Security
Four-digit pairing code. Unpaired connections are dropped.
Requires
macOS 13 or later. iOS 16 or later. One Accessibility permission on the Mac.
Size
The Mac app is 316 KB.

Get Trackpad.

Download for Mac Get the iPhone beta

The Mac app is notarized by Apple. On first launch, grant the Accessibility permission it asks for — that’s what lets it move your cursor.