Tesla screen mirroring

What you can do with screen mirroring

• Tesla screen mirroring in motion

  The Tesla display follows the phone while the car is parked and while it is moving. No Fire Stick, HDMI box, or dash mount.

• iPhone screen mirroring in motion

  Show the iPhone on the Tesla screen. Maps, video, messages, or any open app can stay in view on the car display for the drive.

• Android screen mirroring in motion

  Show an Android phone on the Tesla screen the same way. One mirroring service, iPhone or Android, including while the car is moving.

• Start mirroring in motion from the phone app

  The session starts in the CyberDash app for iOS or Android. The Tesla browser alone does not put the phone on the car screen.

Your phone on the Tesla screen

Watching a mirrored screen while you drive is unsafe. Use it only when that is legal and you can keep your attention on the road. Passengers can watch. The driver watches the road.

How Tesla screen mirroring works in motion

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   What Mirroring is

   Tesla screen mirroring puts your phone on the display the car already has. CyberDash clones the iPhone or Android screen onto the Tesla screen, on the front display and on the rear display. What is open on the phone is what the car shows. You do not add a Fire Stick, an HDMI box, a dash mount, or a CarPlay adapter. The same mirrored picture can stay on the Tesla screen after the car leaves the parking spot.

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   Start from the phone app

   The session does not start from the Tesla browser by itself. Download the CyberDash app for iPhone or Android, open it, and start mirroring there. iPhone uses the TestFlight beta at https://testflight.apple.com/join/W4Hfdbvk. Android uses the APK at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xwyT-uvNbUGahKQmf1nWdee2IibFL44G. Without that app, the phone screen does not appear on the Tesla display. YouTube, IPTV, movies, games, radio, and SoundCloud are different: those open in the car’s browser. Mirroring is the phone, sent to the car.

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   Start while parked

   While the car is parked, start the session and check the picture. Open maps, a video, messages, or any other app on the phone. The Tesla screen follows. When you drive, that same mirrored screen can stay on the display. You do not close the app, switch to another box, or turn on a separate motion mode. Watching a mirrored screen while you drive is unsafe. Use it only when that is legal and you can keep your attention on the road. Passengers can watch. The driver watches the road.

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   What “in motion” means

   In motion means the car is no longer parked. The wheels are turning: you are in town, on a highway, stopped in traffic, or moving again, and the Tesla display can still show the phone. If you change apps on the phone, the car screen changes with it. If you lock the phone or leave the mirroring session, the Tesla screen stops following it. Nothing new is installed in the car because the trip started.

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   No extra device

   You do not add a device when the car starts moving. A Fire Stick is a small Amazon player for a television HDMI port, its own remote, and a power plug. The Tesla screen is not that television. It does not have an HDMI input you plug a stick into so the stick becomes the car display. A stick does not start CyberDash mirroring, and CyberDash will not ask for one. Leave it at home. A phone mount on the dash is not required either. The car screen is the display. The phone is the source, running the CyberDash app, not a second screen clamped by the wheel.

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   Not CarPlay or Android Auto

   This is not Apple CarPlay and not Android Auto. Those are separate phone interfaces. Mirroring shows the phone screen itself: the apps you already opened, in the layout the phone already uses. Nothing is installed in the car, there is no jailbreak, and starting the session does not void the warranty. On a Tesla with a rear display, passengers can use that screen. Park, turn on theater mode from the front screen, and start the rear theater. The rear display can keep the mirrored picture after the front screen leaves it and after the trip continues. Passengers watch. The driver watches the road.

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   Account and price

   You need a CyberDash account. After sign-up you get 24 hours of test access, then a subscription: $11.99 a month or $99.99 a year. The session also needs a working connection. If the link between the phone and the car drops, the picture on the Tesla screen drops with it. Mirroring works on Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X from 2021, and Cybertruck. It is optimized for AMD Ryzen cars, Hardware 3 and Hardware 4. Intel cars can use it too; the display simply takes longer to settle. You do not buy a different stick for a different model. iPhone and Android use the same service.

FAQ: Tesla screen mirroring in motion