Make Your iPhone a Monitor? These Gadgets Make It Possible!

 

Sharing How to Use Your iPhone or iPad as a Monitor

This guide shares how to use your iPhone or iPad as an external display, whether through wired or wireless connections, to meet various video output needs.

Common signal sources include HDMI devices such as Blu-ray DVD players, Chunghwa Telecom MOD, and Nintendo Switch. It also covers USB interface devices like microscopes, document cameras, and Logitech webcams.

Whether you're looking to watch videos at home or need a setup for teaching and presentations, this guide offers practical insights to help you maximize the functionality of your mobile device and turn it into a flexible display tool.

It explores different connection methods (wired or wireless), supported devices (HDMI or USB), and various purposes (display only, recording, or live streaming).

By combining these elements, about six different product setups can turn your iPhone into a monitor.

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1. Wireless HDMI to iOS Converter
This device converts HDMI signals into wireless signals that can be received by iOS devices. Multiple iPhones or iPads can monitor the signal at the same time.

Product Link: https://livestream.qdm.tw/Wireless-iPad-monitor

To connect a USB webcam, you'll need to add a USB webcam video converter to the setup, which converts the USB webcam signal to HDMI first.

2. USB webcam wifi router

product link  https://www.febon.net/products/usb-webcam-to-wireless

at the same time,  one or two ipad iphone can as wireless monitor for usb camera. 

3.   iOS HDMI capture card

product link https://www.febon.net/products/icapture

ipad iphone as tv monitor for hdmi video source. 

such as ,  sony blueray dvd , dslr camera and etc. 

4. USB camera streaming adapter 

product link: https://www.febon.net/products/usb-webcam-streaming-mulitimedia-adapter

turn uvc webcam into hdmi , record, uvc bypass and ios output

5. usb webam to lightning adapter

product link  https://www.febon.net/products/usb-uvc-webcam-to-lightning

Using a USB cable, you can display the video from a USB webcam on your iPhone.
If your iPhone has a traditional Lightning port, use a Lightning cable.
If it’s a USB-C iPhone, use a USB-C cable instead.

Please note: video only, no audio. Recording is supported, but live streaming is not.