Pages from iPhone

Pages you send from Tern for iPhone open on your Mac in the Space they came from. When your iPhone is beside your Mac, you can also drag a page straight across.

Where a page opens on your Mac

A page sent from your iPhone opens in Tern on your Mac:

• In the same Space. Tern switches to the Space the page was in on your iPhone. If your Mac doesn't have that Space, it opens in the Space that's open.
• At the end of today's tabs. It's added as a new tab and shown, and nothing you had open moves.
• With a note. For a few seconds, a note over the page says which device it came from and what the page is.

Tern needs to be open on your Mac for the page to arrive. A page sent while your Mac is off waits in iCloud for up to a day. To send one, see Send a tab to iPhone.

Drag a page across

When Tern is in front on your iPhone and your Mac is nearby with Tern open, a Mac sits in the iPhone's bar, beside the address. The first time, connect the two:

1. Tap the Mac in the bar.Connect opens, asking you to hold your iPhone beside your Mac.
2. Say which side it's on.Choose whether your iPhone is on the left or the right of the Mac. Tern remembers this for each Mac.
3. Hold the round button.Light builds on both screens from the edge where they meet. When it's full, they're connected.

After that, drag from the Mac in the bar toward your Mac. The page lifts off as a card, and on your Mac it comes in through the matching edge of the screen as you move. Let go once enough of it is over and it opens in Tern on your Mac. Let go too soon and it slides back.

If a page doesn't come across

Dragging needs your iPhone and Mac to find each other on the same desk. If your Mac doesn't answer in time, the page goes through iCloud instead, and opens as a sent tab a few seconds later.

• Open Tern on your Mac. A Mac without Tern open can't take a page.
• Check iCloud. Both devices need the same Apple Account, with sync on in Tern for iPhone's Settings.
• Allow local network access. Tern for iPhone uses it to find your Mac nearby. You can turn it on for Tern in the iPhone's Settings.

Only the page's address, its title and a small picture of it cross over, and only between your own devices. Tern for iPhone is coming soon to the App Store.