Monitor your Macs in real time
Clamshell goes to iPhone and iPad!
This is an iOS version of the Clamshell app. It provides monitoring states of all your Macs from your iPhones and iPads that are signed in to the same iCloud account.
Clamshell now supports sharing the laptop lid statuses and system statuses (Awake, Sleeping, Logging out, Restarting, Shutting down, Restarted, Shut Down, User Logged Out, App Terminated). More statuses will come in the year.
No data is shared with third-party providers. Clamshell is not using any external servers but only Apple's iCloud servers. You're in full control of your data!
Note for users of iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro: Clamshell is useful for you finally! Use it to monitor statuses of your Mac desktops remotely from iPhone/iPad. Yay!
With External Displays, the MacBook sleeps for only a few seconds before bringing all the external displays back with the login prompt. I have the same behavior occur with DisplayLink, which has a similar sleep displays in clamshell mode feature. Wish I had better news to report.
Developer Response
It seems like we don't have any useful data to work with right now. If you're having trouble, please reach out to our support team. They'd love to help you out and would appreciate any additional information you can provide:1. What are the names of the external display models?2. How are the external displays connected to your MacBook?3. What modes of Clamshell are you using?4. If you have any Clamshell logs, please share them as well.
Finally
Wallix
I spent several days trying to find something that does this. So far it is working great! Granted it’s only been 2 days - but here’s hoping there are no bugs lying in wait….
Developer Response
Thank you! Sadly, there is no software without bugs, but feel free to report any to support.
Brilliant...
fff3k
I've been exploring ways to make this happen: close the lid on my macbook, and have my external monitor also sleep. This is (finally) a way to (simply!) do that. so for me, an essential app....
Developer Response
Thank you!
This saved my day
ekzhang
New monitor, much appreciated. Found this on reddit. So demure, so helpful
Developer Response
Thank you!
There is a bug in the iOS 26.4 that can make iOS build of the Clamshell app not able to update remote Macs' states automatically. This version of the Clamshell app implements a workaround. You could update remote Macs' states manually. To do it, pull down the "Remote Macs" list to refresh data (the standard refresh gesture on iOS).
Version 2.2
The developer, Alexander Kovrazhkin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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