Hooking Up Multiple Monitors To Imac

In a few moments your imac will recognize the external monitor and you ll see your mac desktop appear on that monitor as well.

Hooking up multiple monitors to imac. Now click and drag your monitors to arrange them in the same order in which they sit on your desk. Adjust your settings so the monitors appear the way they do in front of you. Visit this page find and select your mac then look.

The main monitor is always the one where all new windows are opened. You can drag a monitor to any side of the screen including above and below. Apple doesn t make a usb c to mini displayport adapter so you won t be able to connect a 2016 or later macbook pro to the apple cinema display or any other monitor that uses a mini display port.

When you go into your control panel settings go into display then select exactly where each one of the monitors are. With your external monitor turned off connect the monitor to your imac with your new cable s and then turn your second monitor on. They really are ask anyone who s used a two or three screen setup for their desktop and they ll tell you that they have a hard time going back to just one.

If everything is set up properly you should see two blue rectangles representing the displays with. Click and hold on a display to show a red outline on the corresponding monitor. Last but not least you can also fiddle with the mirrors display option.

Uncheck mirror displays if you see the same image on both. Dragging the main menu bar between the two monitor icons will give you an additional option of selecting one of the two as your main monitor. You can then drag the monitors around and pu them in exactly the orientation they are in your screen.

Multiple monitors are awesome. Laptops have a built in advantage here since they have one screen. Go to settings in your mac then click displays and then arrangement.