Where Does iPhone Mirroring Store Data on Mac?
iPhone Mirroring streams live from your iPhone and keeps only pairing prefs and icon caches on Mac. Both spots are below.
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iPhone Mirroring shows a live view of your iPhone on a Mac, so there is no message or photo archive to find. What the Mac keeps is small: pairing preferences for the connection and cached copies of your iPhone app list and icons.
That cache has one sharp edge. Tools that scan the disk can read which iPhone apps you have from the mirrored list, which matters on managed work Macs. Home users can ignore it and simply enjoy the larger screen for triaging messages.
Where iPhone Mirroring stores this, by platform
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenContinuity
Pairing prefs at Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist (delete to fix stuck connections). Mirrored iPhone app list cached under ~/Library/Daemon Containers/.../Data/Library/Caches; no message or photo files are stored.
Frequently asked questions
iPhone Mirroring is stuck connecting. How do I reset it?
Quit the app fully, open ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenContinuity/Data/Library/Preferences, and delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity.plist. Reopening rebuilds pairing cleanly.
Does iPhone Mirroring copy my photos to the Mac?
No. The phone screen streams live; photos and files stay on the iPhone. Use AirDrop, Photos sync, or Files to move anything to the Mac.
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