Many exciting things were announced at WWDC 21 last year. While the stars of the show were the new iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey, there was another thing that impressed users worldwide. The feature was showcased as Universal Control and showcased an incredible ability to operate multiple devices simultaneously. But what exactly is it and how do you use it now that it's out? Find out all that and more as I show you how to set up and use Universal Control on your Apple devices.

While I'm going to show you how to set up Universal Control, I'll start the article on what it is and how it works. If you'd rather just skip to the process, use the table below to do so.

Long awaited since WWDC 21, Universal Control is a feature from Apple that allows one to use the cursor and keyboard of one Apple device such as a Mac to control others such as an iPad. So users who have an iPad and a Mac can effectively use a single device's hardware to control both seamlessly. But what makes this special is the expanded functionality.

In addition to just dragging a single cursor across multiple drives, you can easily drag and drop media and files from one drive to another. Universal Control enables this drag and drop transfer for all types of files and supports Mac to iPad and vice versa.