A commandline tool to connect to a Sidecar capable device. No AppleScript, yay 🥳

Download the binary from https://github.com/Ocasio-J/SidecarLauncher/releases.

List reachable Sidecar capable devices:

./SidecarLauncher devices

Connect to the device:

./SidecarLauncher connect "My iPad"

Disconnect from device:

./SidecarLauncher disconnect "My iPad"

Initially validated on Mac OS 14.2.1. Subject to break on macOS updates due to use of private APIs.

Use this convenient shorcut to trigger Sidecar from an iPad. See comments in the shortcut for some important notes.