What changed in Duotop.

1.2

14 November 2026

Duotop for Mac 1.2 is out now. The iPhone and iPad app 1.2 is with Apple for review and follows on the App Store; most of what is new needs both.

• A straight link away from home (Pro). When you open your Mac from another network, Duotop starts through the relay and then moves to a link straight between your device and your Mac wherever the two networks allow it. It is faster and nothing passes through the relay. Where they do not allow it, the relay carries on. How it works.
• Wake your Mac. On your own network, opening a sleeping Mac wakes it first. Needs "Wake for network access" on the Mac. A new switch keeps a plugged-in Mac from sleeping at all.
• A Touch Bar above the laptop keyboard. Half open on an iPhone Duo, the strip above the keys is black with coloured keys that change with the Mac app in front, slide sideways, and include sliders for brightness and volume. Apps Duotop has no keys for show the buttons of their own toolbar.
• Your own keys. Settings › Keys: reorder, hide and add shortcuts for each kind of app.
• Pinch to enlarge the picture, up to four times. Three fingers slide it; the pointer stays in view.
• Mac gestures. Sweep three fingers to change desktop, open Mission Control or see an app's windows.
• Windows your way. One at a Time fills the screen with the window you are using. Two Side by Side gives two windows half each, made for an open Duo. Every window goes back when you leave.
• Files and pictures. Send a file to your Mac, bring one back, copy pictures both ways, and save a Mac screenshot to Photos.
• Privacy. A curtain blacks out your Mac's own screen and shuts out its keyboard and mouse while you are connected. Lock the Mac when you disconnect. Ask for Face ID before a Mac opens.
• Hide desktop icons from the picture, without changing the Mac.
• Open My Mac from a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget, Control Center, the app's icon, Siri and Shortcuts. A Live Activity shows the Mac that is open.
• Sound away from home uses about a twelfth of the data, and the picture gets smaller for a moment when a connection cannot keep up.
• More keys above the iOS keyboard: forward delete, Page Up and Down, Home, End and fn.
• Fixed: on an iPhone held sideways, Larger Text made Mac text smaller instead of larger.

1.1

13 November 2026

• Open your Mac from any network, with no setup (Pro). When there is no direct way to your Mac, Duotop connects through its relay. The stream stays encrypted end to end, so the relay cannot read it. What the relay sees.
• Reach from anywhere switch in the Mac app's menu. Turn it off and the Mac makes no connection to the relay.
• The Mac tells your device its Tailscale address by itself, so there is nothing to type.
• Add by Address recognises a Mac you already paired. No code is needed the second time.
• The pairing screen fits the Duo's closed display.
• The iOS keyboard types in any language.
• Try Again after a lost connection works the first time.
• Duotop for Mac updates itself.

1.0

13 November 2026

• First release.