How to Watch iPad on TV

Surely you have thought more than once how to watch ipad on tv to enjoy content from your device on a larger screen. Watching iPad on TV is great for enjoying our favorite games using a controller.

It is also particularly useful for viewing the images and videos that we have stored on our device, watching videos from YouTube, streaming video platforms… Yes, our TV is not as smart as we would like.

To see the iPad on TV, we have two options:

• Use a wire
• Via Airplay

Cable

Using a cable to watch iPad on TV is the easiest method and, in addition, reduce latency to zero. If you want to enjoy your favorite games on TV without any latency (signal delay), using a cable is the best solution.

Depending on the iPad model, we will need a lightning cable o USB-C to HDMI.

Lightning to HDMI Cable

If your device has a Lightning connection, you need a lightning to hdmi cablea cable that we can buy both in the Apple Store and on Amazon for less than 20 dollars.

The problem with Amazon cables is that some manufacturers, claim the cable is certified by Apple (MFI seal)even if it’s not true.

If not officially certified by Apple (it’s hard to tell), the adapter may work initially, but over time, it will probably stop working.

Before choosing one cable or another, it is advisable to read user reviews. Or, pay more than 50 dollars than the official cable costs in the Apple Store.

Once we have connected the iPad to the TV using the Lightning to HDMI cable, the iPad image will automatically begin to display on the TV screenwithout us having to make adjustments to the iPad.

With this thread, mirror ipad screen to tv. If we turn off the screen, the broadcast will stop.

USB-C to HDMI Cable

If your iPad includes a USB-C port, you need a USB-C to HDMI cable. Unlike lightning cables, you can use any available cable, since it is a standard, it does not require any type of certification.

Of course, do not opt ​​for the cheapest solution if you want to enjoy the content of your iPad in the best possible quality and that, over time, the USB-C part is not damaged, since it is the most that we are going to touch to connect it to our device.

Once we have connected the iPad to the TV using the USB-C to HDMI cable, the iPad image will automatically be mirrored on the TV without us having to make adjustments to the iPad.

Just as if we were using a Lightning to HDMI cable, if the screen is turned off, the broadcast will stop, it is therefore not ideal for consuming content from video streaming platforms.

Airplay

The method most convenient and easy to watch iPad on TV uses Apple’s AirPlay technology.

With AirPlay we can mirror the screen of our device (keeping the screen on) or send content in video format to play content by turning off the screen of our device.

Although AirPlay is Apple’s proprietary technology, in recent years he began to fire him so that other manufacturers can use it in smart TVs.

If we want to use AirPlay we have 3 possibilities:

• AppleTV
• Smart TV compatible with AirPlay
• Amazon FireTV

AppleTV

The best device to enjoy AirPlay functionality is Apple TV, the Apple device that acts as the center of HomeKit and which, in addition, allows us to enjoy everything video streaming platform.

Being a wireless connection, we will always find a little latency if we want to mirror the screen to the TV, then it is not ideal to enjoy games where any type of delay can affect the gameplay or the user experience.

The cheapest Apple TV that Apple currently offers on the market is the HD model which is priced at 159 dollars and has 32 GB of storage.

If you want enjoy 4K videos via streaming You will have to pay the 199 dollars that the cheapest model costs, a model also available in versions with 32 and 64 GB of storage.

Smart TV compatible with AirPlay

Samsung, LG y sony offers in higher-end models, AirPlay support. In this way, we can use the main function of Apple TV without buying it.

If you are planning to renew your old TV and want it to last you a few years, you should choose a model that offers support for this technology.

Amazon FireTV

The cheapest option of all those that we show you in this section to be able to take advantage of AirPlay to watch the iPad on TV is to buy one of the different Fire TV models from Amazon.

And I say cheaper, because the cheapest model of Amazon’s Fire TV devices is the Fire TV Stik Lite, which costs 29.99 dollars, although sometimes you can find it with a discount of 10 dollars on its usual price.

Natively, Fire TV no wires compatible with AirPlayhowever, we can add compatibility with this protocol using the app air screenan app available for free in the Amazon Fire TV app store.

Send content via AirPlay to a TV

It is not the same send the image from the iPad to the TV than to send the content of a video streaming platform to the TV.

When sending image from iPad to TV, we mirror the screenso if we turn it off, the reading will stop.

But, if we send the image from a video streaming platform or an application to play videos, we can turn off the iPad screen while the playback continues.

Watch iPad App on TV with AirPlay

• We open the application game or application that we want to show on our TV screen.
• We access the control Panel by swiping from the upper right corner of the screen.
• Then we click on the two superimposed windows.
• To finish, we select the name of the device in which we want to display the image.

To rememberif you turn off the screen, screen mirroring will stop.

Watch iPad Video on TV with AirPlay

• We open the video player or the streaming video platform from which we are going to send the content via AirPlay.
• We start reading the content and click on the square with a triangle in the form of waves (this icon can appear anywhere on the screen)
• It will then display a list with all compatible devices with AirPlay.
• We select the device where we want to see the content.

Once playback has started, we can turn off the screen of our iPad without stopping video playback.