Connect a display to your Mac

Larn how to connect some other display to your Mac.

Find out how many displays you tin connect

You can connect one or more external displays depending on your Mac model. To find out how many external displays your Mac supports, check its technical specifications page:

  1. Cull Apple menu  > About This Mac, double-click your serial number, so press Command-C to copy it.
  2. Go to the Tech Specs page, click the Search Tech Specs bar, printing Command-V to enter your computer'due south series number, then click Search.
  3. Click the specs page for your Mac. The number of displays your Mac supports appears under Video Support or Graphics.

Mac computers with Apple silicon

On Mac computers with Apple silicon, you can connect upward to 5 displays depending on the chip in your Mac. To find out which flake your Mac has, choose Apple tree menu  > About This Mac.

If you're using a Mac Studio with M1 Ultra:

  • You lot can connect up to five external displays to your Mac using the Thunderbolt four (USB-C) and HDMI ports on the forepart and back of the estimator.

If you're using a Mac with M1 Max:

  • On MacBook Pro, y'all tin connect up to four external displays to your Mac using the Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) and HDMI ports.
  • On Mac Studio, you lot can connect upward to five external displays to your Mac using the Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) and HDMI ports on the back of the calculator.

If you're using a Mac with M1 Pro:

  • You tin connect up to two external displays to your Mac using the Thunderbolt four (USB-C) and HDMI ports.

If yous're using a Mac with the M1 chip:

  • On iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro, you can connect one external display using either of the Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports. On iMac, connect your brandish to either of the ports with the Thunderbolt symbol.
  • On Mac mini, you tin connect a second brandish to the HDMI port.
  • Using docks or daisy-chaining devices doesn't increase the number of displays yous tin can connect.

Connect your display

Connect your display to ability, then connect your display to your Mac. Cheque the ports on your Mac to discover out whether you need an adapter. If you're using a USB-C or Thunderbolt adapter to connect your display, the adapter must be compliant with DisplayPort Alt Mode or Thunderbolt / USB four.

If you use an external keyboard and mouse with your Mac notebook, you tin close the congenital-in display after you connect your external display. You might accept to printing a central or click your mouse to wake the external brandish.

If your external display doesn't turn on afterward you connect information technology to your Mac, connect your display while your Mac is off, so wake or turn on your Mac.

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