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For ages I’ve been fiddling about with my iPhone and my Mac Mini in order to get one to work with the other. I wanted to use Apple Remote to control my iTunes library upon my Mini. But I never got it to work seamlessly. Untill now. None of the pages I’ve visited told me the ultimate trick. Or at least, it didn’t point it out very specificly.

And what’s worse, I never thought it myself. It is so very obvious. The connection between the two works most stable if both products use the same WIRELESS network connection. While this seems logical, I have been able to connect the two while my Mac Mini only uses the wired connection to my netwerk. I never configured it to connect wirelessly. And this is the exact trick! While other Apps work perfectly regardless of the connection used, Apple’s Remote does seam funrable

Make sure the computer you want to be able to control with Apple’s Remote is (also) connected to your network wirelessly. Otherwise, it will probably connect but does so very, very unreliable. While it also seems obvious, make sure both the mac computer and the iPhone/iPod connect to the same wireless network. Nowadays those networks seem a dime a dozen.

Good luck!