How to control your iPad remotely with Veency (Jailbreak)

Something that several people have asked me is that if there is a way to remotely control our iPad from a computer as if we had it in our hands, the answer is yes, thanks to the use of Veency, an application that makes use of VNC protocol to transmit screen images, keystrokes and mouse movements from the server to the controlling client.

This useful application is exclusively for devices with jailbreak, so you can only find it completely free at Cydia for installation.

Once installed on our iPad, do not expect to find a new icon on the springboard, you simply have to go to the system settings and look for the Veency section, there you must enable it and assign a password to provide greater security, since otherwise anyone could connect to your iDevice just by knowing your local IP.

So far everything is very simple, the Veency server has already been configured on the iPad, however, to connect from the computer we must first have a VNC client To be able to do it, if you are on Windows you can make use of UltraVNC, on Linux Tightvnc and on OS X you can do it without the need for third-party applications.

As you can see, it is a protocol multi platform, which is one of its great advantages since hypothetically you can connect from any operating system, you can even do it from another iOS device using one of the several VNC clients available in the App Store such as Screens, although this is very little practical and functional, limiting ourselves to being more than anything a remote screen of our terminal, come on, someone must use that, right?

In the case of OS X, just go to the option «Connect to the server » in the "Go" menu of the Finder.

Here we only have to write vnc: // followed by the IP address of our iPad or, failing that, the network name of the device (the IP can be seen in the settings of the Wi-Fi network to which we are connected in iOS and the network name is the name you have given to your iPad followed by ".local").

Then we will be asked if we want to continue with the connection, since the computer we are trying to connect to does not support the application's encryption «Share screen" of OS X, which is logical considering that Veency does not use any extra security protocol as would be tunneling by SSH, so using this tool outside of your local network can be potentially dangerous, you never know who may be capturing data in an open network so be very careful with this, even if you are in a safe environment Ignore this warning and press the connect button.

We provide the password that we previously set in Veency settings on the iPad.

And voila, we have connected to the screen of our iPad remotely and we can control it as if we had it in our hands, but I must say that in the case of the iPad 3 and 4 that have retina display its performance is not the best due to the high screen resolution of both devices, which means that the movements are not as fluid as we would like.

If you are a user of one of these two members of the iPad family, there is another solution, make use of a third-party application (this also applies to the rest of the operating systems), since with most of them you can specify image quality that we will receive, thus speeding up the transmission of data.

On OS X we can use JollyFastVNC, a shareware VNC application that you can download from your Official Site and that allows us to play a bit more with the connection parameters to improve Veency's performance.

First of all we must go to the global preferences of the application:

Then change the connection settings that we will make with the iPad:

Once you have changed the parameters shown in the previous image, you will notice that interacting with the Retina screen iPad remotely becomes much more fluid and functional, thanks to the fact that we have reduced the image quality a bit.

More information - Screens, an interesting VNC client