BTT Remote, control your Mac from an iOS device

Surely more than one of you has a Mac at home. You will agree with us that remote control would be great. No more having to get up to skip the song, put it to sleep, launch applications or even move the mouse cursor.

The essential ingredient to make this happen is BetterTouchTool, an application to be installed on the Mac and on the iOS device which is to become the remote controller of the computer.

BTT Remote for iOS

Once we have BetterTouchTool installed on our Mac, now we have to install the application designed for iPhone and iPad. The first time we run BTT Remote we have to make sure that the iOS device is connected to the same network as the Mac, otherwise it will not detect it and we will not be able to handle it.

If we meet all the requirements, our Mac will appear reflected in the initial screen of BTT Remote. Click on it and a message will appear on the computer for us to grant permissions to that device. This is very important as it ensures that no one else will be able to remotely control your Mac without granting permanent authorization.

Once inside, BTT already offers us a series of functionalities that do not require configuration. For example, there is a virtual trackpad to operate the mouse cursor, a keyboard and a series of actions that correspond to those found in the top row of the Apple keyboard (brightness and playback controls).

There is also a file explorer that works as a launcher, that is, we can go to the path of any application or document and run it on the Mac remotely.

Finally, we can see thes applications that we are running and access the top bar that grants immediate access to the main functions of each application.

From the BetterTouchTool settings panel for OS X we can configure three-finger gestures to perform actions. There is the possibility of creating predefined tasks that we will execute from the iOS device with just one press.

The proper functioning of BTT Remote is unquestionable and with hardly consuming resources from our Mac, in addition, BetterTouchTool for OS X is a very useful tool. The combo formed by both applications is the best there is right now.

There are only two limitations that we have to always keep in mind. Only compatible with OS X and the iOS device has to be connected to the same network as the Mac.