How To Cast Your Phone Screen To Xbox One

It's actually pretty easy to mirror your telephone on to your Xbox.

Your options for getting content on your Xbox I wirelessly are plentiful. Notwithstanding, if the glutton of apps and options for watching movies and TV aren't doing it for you — or if you have content that simply can't be natively displayed on an Xbox I — you lot're non out of luck. In fact, information technology's pretty piece of cake to get about anything you want to show on your Xbox One.

Today, nosotros'll show you lot how you can completely mirror your smartphone to your Xbox I if you're an iOS or Android user. The former bunch will be using AirPlay to do it, while the latter will employ the Miracast standard if your smartphone supports it (nearly should). No matter your phone of choice, it's pretty piece of cake.

What is device mirroring?

Before we begin, here's a quick explanation of device mirroring in case you aren't enlightened. Device mirroring allows you to axle whatsoever is showing on your smartphone direct to a different device for showing on a different display. And when nosotros say whatsoever , we mean it - user interface and all.

This happens differently and is chosen dissimilar things depending on which phone yous have. iPhone users do so through AirPlay, which typically is only supposed to work on Apple TV. Those with Android phones utilise a more open standard called Miracast, which is built into many smartphones, TVs, gear up-top boxes, and multimedia devices. It may sometimes be called Wireless Brandish or have some other proprietary name, just it'southward all based on the same engineering science.

No matter your creed, the terminate goal is the same: to become the stuff that's on your smartphone to show on your TV at a i-for-ane ratio.

Can you lot mirror your phone to Xbox One?

Yep! Actually, this feature was originally available from Microsoft as part of the Xbox One preview program. Information technology worked well, just Microsoft never fully launched information technology to the masses despite it beingness oft-requested. Thankfully, there exists a powerful alternative. All information technology takes is an app download.

AirServer for Xbox One

Enter AirServer (or as I like to call it, Air Savior ). The app makes information technology insanely simple to mirror both iPhone and Android phones to your Xbox Ane. In fact, as long equally you're using an Android phone with Miracast enabled or an iPhone, you won't even need to download anything other than the AirServer app on Xbox.

Here's how to get it:

On your Xbox One, caput to the Xbox Store .
Open up the search box and type in AirServer .
Download AirServer.
Launch AirServer.

And that's it! The rest of the magic happens generally on your smartphone.

How to mirror your Android phone to Xbox I

Here's where things get a bit tricky. First, you need to effigy out whether your phone supports Miracast. You can normally find this information on your phone's box, in its transmission, or at its listing on the website of the manufacturer.

Most modern phones should have this characteristic baked in, either branded as Miracast or with a unique name used by your phone maker. The process for using the characteristic may also differ from telephone to phone. Here's a quick rundown of how to exercise information technology on phones from some of the most pop Android device makers:

Samsung: This feature is called "Smart View" on newer Samsung phones, and you lot access it past tapping the Smart View button in the quick launch bar of your notifications pane.
LG: LG calls it Wireless Display, and it'due south available at Settings > Connected devices > Screen sharing .
HTC: HTC's solution is HTC Connect, and you access information technology by swiping up on the display with 3 fingers.
Sony: Sony refers to Miracast by its natural name, and it's available at Settings > Device connection > Screen mirroring .

Once you've figured out how to access the feature, y'all'll need to establish the connexion betwixt your phone and your Xbox. This should typically exist equally elementary every bit selecting your Xbox from a list of Miracast-capable devices, with the Xbox One showing up equally "XBOXONE" by default.

If all goes well, you lot should encounter the user interface from your phone pop up on your Television. Using the phone in portrait mode volition evidence blackness bars on both sides of the picture, simply if you turn the phone over into landscape way it should fill the screen.

Feel free to show whatever you want from here, including games, pictures, videos, and apps. Practise note, however, that some premium video apps - such as Netflix - protect their content using digital rights management, and every bit such it will not properly testify the video playing dorsum on your Tv set.

How to mirror your iPhone to Xbox One

iPhone owners will find a much more straightforward experience than folks on Android. At that place's no hunting down info on whether your telephone supports Miracast and how to use it on your particular phone. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you lot have AirPlay, and that'southward how you're going to mirror your phone to your Xbox One.

The lone prerequisite nosotros discussed before applies here: download AirServer . Now, on your iOS device:

Open up control center. On iPhone 10, you tin admission this by swiping downward from the upper right corner of your screen. On all other iPhones and iPads with iOS 10 or subsequently, you swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
Tap the AirPlay icon. It should accept a sub-label chosen "Screen Mirroring" .
Select your Xbox One from the list.

Also like Android, premium video apps are protected for copyright purposes, so attempting to play video from apps like Netflix may non work.

Troubleshooting

If all goes well then you lot won't have whatsoever issues getting this going, but there are a couple of common problems that may spring upward in your time with AirServer. Hither'south a list of potential issues and how to set them:

If your app crashes , restart it and effort again. Many of the early reviews of AirServer accept complained about this, just the developers have seemingly smoothened things out over time.
If you tin can't observe your Xbox in the list of devices you can mirror to , make sure the Xbox and your phone are on the same network. This typically shouldn't exist a problem as both Miracast and AirPlay brand utilise of WiFi Directly technology to make it a seamless feel, merely there tin however be incompatibility issues. Being on the same network should fix them.
On iPhone, AirPlay may force video apps to axle content to the Xbox for playback on its built-in video thespian, pregnant you won't be able to bear witness the video in the context of the app's UI. Unfortunately, this is a limitation of iOS itself due to the manner Apple tree implemented AirPlay, and then this issue tin can't be stock-still.

Savour the big screen!

Hopefully, this has helped yous find a new way to enjoy your content, share what you're viewing, or whatever it is y'all may find screen mirroring on Xbox One useful for. Be sure to try AirServer on your Xbox I with a free 24-hour trial, and if you notice it useful and so it's only $x to make it a permanent piece of your multimedia-viewing armory.

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