Your Galaxy Tab can be your Mac's second monitor

Why Samsung's Second screen stops at Windows

Samsung's support page for Second screen lists the Galaxy Tab S7, S8, S9 and S10 on One UI 3.1 or later, paired with "select PCs with Wireless Display running at least Windows 10 v.2004". Macs don't appear anywhere on it. Wireless Display is the Windows feature that sends the PC's picture to the tablet, and macOS has no equivalent of it, so a Mac can't simply be pointed at the tablet.

What a Mac needs is an app on each side: one that creates the extra display on the Mac and sends its picture, and one on the tablet that shows it. That is what Wing Display is.

What works on the Tab S9, S10, S11 and S12

Wing Display uses Android's standard display and pen input, nothing tied to one model, so the four recent generations behave the same way:

• Every Tab S9, S10, S11 and S12 model runs a newer Android than the Android 11 the app needs, with Google Play to install it from. The Tab S12+ and S12 Ultra, on sale since 7 October 2026, ship with Android 17.
• The tablet shows your Mac in landscape.
• Touch and the S Pen work on all four with Pro.
• An older Tab S7 or S8 qualifies too, once it's on Android 11 or later.

Screen size is where they differ. The Tab S11 Ultra's display measures 14.6 inches, larger than a 13-inch MacBook Air's. You choose the tablet's resolution in System Settings → Displays, so an Ultra gives you room for a whole second app.

Set it up in three steps

1. Install the Mac app

   Download Wing Display for Mac, which is free, allow Screen Recording, then click Start in the menu bar.

2. Install the tablet app

   On your Galaxy Tab, install the Android tablet app from Google Play.

3. Connect

   Open the app on the same Wi-Fi as your Mac, tap Connect, and click Allow on your Mac.

Set up your tablet as a second Mac screen covers every permission, and troubleshooting helps when the tablet doesn't find your Mac.

The S Pen, on your Mac Pro

With Pro, the S Pen reaches your Mac as a pen, not a mouse. Pressure and tilt travel with each point, hovering moves the pointer without clicking, the side button right-clicks, and a palm resting on the glass is ignored while the pen is near. Turn your tablet and pen into a pen display for your Mac explains what that's good for.

Touch and a USB cable Pro

Pro also makes the screen a touch surface for your Mac, and connects over a USB data cable where Wi-Fi is busy. The cable needs USB debugging switched on once, under Developer options; on a Galaxy Tab you reveal those by tapping Build number seven times in Settings → About tablet → Software information. Connect by USB cable has the rest.

What it costs

The second screen over Wi-Fi or your tablet's hotspot is part of the free plan. Pro adds touch, the pen and the USB connection for $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year in US dollars, bought in the tablet app through Google Play, and first-time subscribers get 14 days free. Compare the plans.

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