What is AirDroid Personal Screen Mirroring?
AirDroid Personal Screen mirroring is a free feature that helps to mirror your phone's screen to your computer on a local network or on an external network.
NOTE:
- For Android OS 5.0 above, you can use this feature without root your phone
- For Android OS 5.0 below, you have to root your phone to use this feature.
How to use AirDroid Personal Screen Mirroring?
Option 1: Using Screen Mirroring on AirDroid Personal Desktop Client
- Download and install the AirDroid Personal app on your phone and sign in to your AirDroid Personal account
- Download and install AirDroid Personal desktop client on your computer and sign in to the same AirDroid account
- Open the AirDroid Personal desktop client, click on the telescope icon on the left menu bar
- Choose your device and click the Screen Mirroring to establish a connection.
Option 2. Using Mirroring on AirDroid Personal Web:
- Download and install the AirDroid Personal app on your phone and sign in to your AirDroid Personal account
- Sign in to the same AirDroid Personal account on AirDroid Personal web client
- Click the Mirroring icon to establish a connection
If you want to mirror your phone's screen to your other phone, please check How to mirror phone's screen to another phone with AirMirror App?
NOTE:
- For the first time to use this feature, a pop-up window will show on your phone saying "AirDroid will start capturing everything that's displayed on your screen". Please kindly check the option "Don't show again" and click START NOW. If you didn't get the pop-up window, please go to the settings of your phone to clear the cache: settings>>storage>>clear data and cache, then uninstall and reinstall AirDroid Personal to see if it helps.
- If you are using Xiaomi devices, you may need to enable Start in the background on your phone's Settings (Permissions > AirDroid > Start in background > click accept). Otherwise, you will not able to use the screen mirroring while AirDroid Personal running on the background of your phone (check the details here)
- For some special devices such as OPPO, it may lack "Don't show again" option which means you will get the window show every time.
What can you use Screen Mirroring do?
- With Screen Mirroring, you can take a screenshot or record your phone screen on your computer easily. (available on AirDroid Personal Desktop Client only)
- You can mirror your phone's screen to your computer or to another Android phone while at a meeting.
- You can also mirror your phone's screen to an Android TV while watching a video.