"iPhone Mirroring Timed Out Connecting" after IOS26 update

I phoned Apple Support twice today. The first person I spoke to said she was unaware of this issue. She made me jump through hoops, including wasting an hour reinstalling 26.0. The second person checked and found that as of today this is a known issue that Apple is working. Many people have reported this problem. We will likely have to wait for 26.1 for a fix.

Probably the answer is yes, but are you signed into the same Apple Account on both devices?

Here are some additional suggestions from Apple (kbase article link)

• Check for VPN and other third-party security software on both devices. Similarly, the firewall settings on your Mac should not be set to block all incoming connections.
• Revoke access to your iPhone in iPhone Mirroring settings, then set up iPhone Mirroring again.
• If no other solutions work, sign out of your Apple Account on each device, restart, then sign back in.

For what it's worth, I have not updated my iPhone 14 Pro to iOS 26 but mirroring works fine on the M4 MacBook Pro that I upgraded to macOS 26 Tahoe (and still works on the M1 MacBook Pro that remains on Sequoia).

Update: a reboot of the phone seemed to solve it for me.

Just setup my new iPhone 17 yesterday. It has iOS 26.0.1 and I get mirror ended due to iPhone use, timed out connecting, and if it does connect, clicking on anything nothing happens and I get connection interrupted.

When I use my phone there are a load of mirroring use notifications queued up, which appear one after another.

My Macbook Pro is on Sequoia.

I upgraded from an iPhone XS, which always worked!

 Just restart your iPhone and Mac. I faced the same issue, but after restarting both devices, they worked normally.

Having the same issue since updating both MacBook & iPhone… phone also won’t connect to my digital scales (keeps saying to make sure Bluetooth is on) it is.. however it does keep turning itself off.

hopefully be a fix soon!

It was working for me after upgrading my MacBook Pro to Tahoe and my iPhone 15 to iOS 26. It stopped working when I migrated from the 15 to an iPhone 17.

Possibly related as a migration failure, though a separate issue: the transfer of my Apple Watch failed and I had to unpair and repair it manually.

Mine does not work either. I agree that it is 100% an OS issue, as some others have commented. I've tried every step in this thread, as well as verifying that networking traffic is not being blocked, routing and DNS are working correctly, and both devices are up to date. Please fix this, Apple!

I never experienced any issues on the previous OS; it always worked, and now it doesn't work consistently.

You know what’s really impressive? That ‘connection failed’ screen shows up faster than the iPhone Mirroring app can even crash on a duck. It’s instant—bam, right there. That’s how unprofessional this is. I mean, come on, at least fake it with a loading screen. Give me, I don’t know… five seconds of pretend effort before you slap me with failure. That’d be way more convincing. And hey—this tip’s free. But the next one? I’m charging. With the sheer number of bugs iOS 26 and macOS are pumping out, I’ll be a millionaire in no time.

not VPN, it is a bug in the software. it just doesn't work.

jcinsd858 wrote:

not VPN, it is a bug in the software. it just doesn't work.

Clearly not true, since iPhone Mirroring works fine for me on macOS 26 Tahoe.

It is a function I used everyday. I also have Tahoe. Don’t work.

This is not working for me either after upgrading both iphone and macbook. Did you resolve?