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SlingScan for Mac needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 13 Ventura or later.
- Download SlingScan for Mac and open SlingScan.dmg.
- Drag SlingScan into Applications, then open it from Applications.
- SlingScan lives in the menu bar, not the Dock. Its window opens when it starts; close it and SlingScan keeps running in the menu bar.
SlingScan for Mac updates itself. Once a new version has downloaded, its window and its menu offer to restart and install it, or it installs the next time SlingScan quits.
- Open SlingScan for Mac. If its window isn't showing, click the SlingScan icon in the menu bar and choose Show SlingScan.
- On your iPhone, open SlingScan and scan the code in that window. You can also scan it with the iPhone's Camera app and tap the SlingScan link.
- The first time, your iPhone asks to find devices on your local network. Allow it: that's how it reaches your computer.
Once they're paired, the top of SlingScan's scanner says Connected, and the Mac's window lists your iPhone.
macOS only lets an app type into other apps with the Accessibility permission.
- In SlingScan's window on your Mac, click Turn On…, then Open System Settings.
- Turn on SlingScan in Privacy & Security > Accessibility.
- Click Restart in SlingScan's window. macOS applies the permission once SlingScan starts again.
Without it, scans still arrive and show up under Recent Scans, and Copying it only works (see Scanner settings).
The first time SlingScan for Mac starts, macOS may ask whether it can accept incoming network connections. Click Allow: that's how your iPhone reaches it. If you clicked Deny, allow SlingScan again in System Settings > Network > Firewall > Options.
- Use the same Wi-Fi. Your iPhone and your computer need to be on the same network.
- Guest and office networks often keep devices from seeing each other. Try a home network, or ask whoever runs the network.
- VPNs on either device can send the connection somewhere else. Try with the VPN off.
- If your computer moved to another network, open SlingScan's window on the Mac and scan the code again.
- Scans don't get lost. Anything you scan while the computer is out of reach waits on your phone (the top of the scanner shows how many) and goes out in order once it's back.
They're in SlingScan for Mac's window, under Scanner Settings.
- Send each scan by
- Typing it: key by key, like a USB scanner.
- Pasting it: for apps that autocorrect or capitalize what's typed. Whatever you had copied is put back afterwards.
- Copying it only: each scan lands on the clipboard, ready to paste, and nothing is typed. No Accessibility permission needed.
- Prefix and Suffix: text typed before and after each scan.
- Then press: Return, Tab or nothing after each scan.
- Delay between keys: for apps that miss characters when typing is fast.
To stop typing for a while, choose Pause Typing from the menu bar icon, or untick Type scans into the app in front in the window. Scans still arrive and are listed.
If a label won't scan, tap the keyboard button next to the QR button and type the digits printed under the barcode. For retail codes (UPC and EAN), SlingScan checks the last digit and warns you about a likely typo.
New Pairing Code in SlingScan's window makes a new key. Phones paired with the old code disconnect and need to scan the new one, so use it if someone else may have scanned your code. To unpair on the iPhone, open Settings and tap the × on your computer's name.
Write to support@infinitetoken.com.