u/mipsisdifficult

What the title says. I reset my network settings on my iPhone SE (3rd gen), and iPhone Mirroring on my Macbook Air (M2 model) no longer functions at all.

At first, macOS would keep saying that it could not find my iPhone when trying to connect. Several restarts fixed nothing. I removed access to something on both devices (I think it had to do with entries for each other on both devices? I can't exactly remember) and it made macOS want to set up Mirroring once more. At this point, trying to go through the process would keep showing up an error saying "unable to connect to iPhone." At this point, I signed out of iCloud on both devices, restarted both of them, then signed back in, but to no avail. A couple of times, it would get farther into the setup by prompting me to verify stuff by putting in my iPhone's passcode on my iPhone, but the setup would hang after that.

I have tried every manner of restarting devices. I have signed in and out of iCloud (which is a major pain in the ass, mind you). I have tried to run defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity in the Terminal. I have given iPhone Mirroring Bluetooth permissions. I have turned on Handoff on my iPhone. Nothing works. Both devices are on the 26 version of their respective OSes. The one thing I haven't tried is formatting both devices, but that is an obviously nuclear option that I don't want to resort to right now.

What do I need to do?

What the title says. I reset my network settings on my iPhone, and iPhone Mirroring on my Macbook no longer functions at all.

At first, macOS would keep saying that it could not find my iPhone when trying to connect. Several restarts fixed nothing. I removed access to something on both devices (I think it had to do with entries for each other on both devices? I can't exactly remember) and it made macOS want to set up Mirroring once more. At this point, trying to go through the process would keep showing up an error saying "unable to connect to iPhone." At this point, I signed out of iCloud on both devices, restarted both of them, then signed back in, but to no avail. A couple of times, it would get farther into the setup by prompting me to verify stuff by putting in my iPhone's passcode on my iPhone, but the setup would hang after that.

I have tried every manner of restarting devices. I have signed in and out of iCloud (which is a major pain in the ass, mind you). I have tried to run defaults delete com.apple.ScreenContinuity in the Terminal. I have given iPhone Mirroring Bluetooth permissions. I have turned on Handoff on my iPhone. Nothing works. Both devices are on the 26 version of their respective OSes. The one thing I haven't tried is formatting both devices, but that is an obviously nuclear option that I don't want to resort to right now.

What do I need to do?