free-sidecar VS FeatureUnlock

Not sure which macOS version you’re running but you can try your luck with Free Sidecar. It enables unsupported Macs and iPads to also use Sidecar. It’s worked for me in the past, problem was I was trying to enable support on an iPad Air 2 and Sidecar only works with an Apple Pencil (IPA2 does not support Pencil) so it did not work regardless. But it may be able to help your situation.

My Macbook meets all of the requirements to run Sidecar and Universal Control perfectly fine, but my iPad is just one generation too old. I feel like it should still be capable of supporting Sidecar since I've already found what looks to be a working method to run Sidecar on much older Macs and iPads ("Free Sidecar" https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar). This method would not work for me though, I believe because my Macbook is updated to Monterey and this was designed a while ago for Catalina. If my iPad can go as far as running Universal Control, that would be even better.

Also, when following this guide found in a different post (https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar), I try the first step to make a backup file for Sidecar, by running this in Terminal: cp /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SidecarCore.framework/Versions/A/SidecarCore ~/Downloads/SidecarCore.bak

I'll leave this here https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar, you can always try it before upgrading to a better iPad.

-ben-z's free-sidecar ONLY IF your SMBIOS doesn't support Sidecar natively. I don't know for sure but if it can run Big Sur odds are it can run Sidecar. The method covered in this git readme might not work though if Big Sur changed codesigning.

Nice work, but check this out: https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar

This kext says:

Hello, I'm trying to enable sidecar on unsupported hardware using this: https://github.com/acidanthera/FeatureUnlock But I can't figure out the installation process. Could somebody help me out ? thanks

https://github.com/acidanthera/FeatureUnlock I using SMBIOS 14.2 and OCLP for Ventura

Any relate with kern.hv_vmm_present' set to as 1 (Ventura and newer)? I dont know where to set it! https://github.com/acidanthera/FeatureUnlock

I installed the FeatureUnlock kext, but it didn't work.

Hi, I'm trying use my 'outdated' iPad as a sidecar for my brand new Mac. I found this repo https://github.com/acidanthera/FeatureUnlock which seems to be the only one maintained for now, but they haven't provided any installation steps or guidelines and I'm completely clueless. Can anyone please explain to me how it works or guide me to some resources? I've some programming experience but not in the low level areas this seems to be in. Thanks!

Airdrop doesn't work (at least it doesn't with me), continuity does, and if you want more features, install this kext.