How To Mirror Your Android Phone To Your Tv In 3 Easy Ways

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How to reflector your Android telephone to a TV - 3 easy ways
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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

  • Mirror your Android telephone to your TV successful 3 elemental ways.
  • Use built-in mirroring, Chromecast, aliases a wired adapter.
  • Enjoy videos, games, and apps connected a larger surface easily.

Your Android phone (or Android tablet) whitethorn person a decent-sized screen. But if you usage it to watch videos, play games, aliases activity pinch different apps, you whitethorn yearn for a overmuch bigger surface to amp up nan experience.

One measurement to execute that is by mirroring your instrumentality to your TV. This way, you power nan action from your telephone but bask nan afloat effect connected your widescreen television.

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There are respective ways to reflector your instrumentality to your TV, depending connected nan features and capabilities of your telephone and your television. Let's cheque retired 3 different options truthful you tin take which 1 useful champion connected your end.

How to reflector your Android telephone to a TV

Many TVs travel pinch a built-in surface mirroring feature. For this, you'll want to scour nan settings connected your TV to link to an outer device, typically utilizing Bluetooth.

On nan different end, your Android telephone whitethorn person a circumstantial mounting to link to a supported TV. On Samsung phones, this is called Smart View. In this case, mirroring a Samsung telephone to a Samsung TV is nan astir compatible option.

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On different Android phones, this mounting goes by a different name. The champion measurement to find this is by swiping down from nan apical of nan surface to show nan Quick Settings paper and looking for nan due casting aliases screen-sharing option.

Position your Android instrumentality adjacent your TV, and past pat nan Smart View mounting connected a Samsung phone aliases a akin mounting connected a different phone. You'll spell done a mates of setup screens and past spot a database of adjacent TVs that support surface mirroring. Tap nan TV you want to link to, and past prime nan Start fastener to link and reflector your screen.

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Setup to reflector your Samsung telephone pinch Smart View

Mirror your Samsung telephone pinch Smart View.

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Smart View screenshots

Control Smart View.

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Open nan app that you want to spot and usage connected your TV. Position your telephone successful image aliases scenery mode.

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TV displaying car video game

Open nan app you want to mirror.

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Your TV displays nan surface from your Android device. When done, pat nan mirroring power to trigger nan menu, and past disconnect your device.

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TV displaying car video game

View your phone's show connected your TV.

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Two much ways to reflector your Android telephone to a TV

1. Use a Chromecast TV aliases instrumentality

If you person a Google TV pinch built-in Chromecast, you tin straight reflector your Android device. 

If you person a different TV, you tin still usage Chromecast, but you'll person to acquisition a Google TV Streamer, which costs $75. Alternatively, you tin prevention money by shopping astir for an older Chromecast instrumentality connected Amazon aliases eBay.

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If you're not utilizing a Google TV, link nan Chromecast instrumentality to your TV via nan HDMI connection. 

On your Android phone, swipe down from nan apical of nan surface and look for a Cast aliases Screen Cast fastener among nan Quick Settings. Tap that button. The sanction of your Google TV aliases nan TV pinch nan Chromecast instrumentality should look connected nan screen. Tap that name, and past pat nan Start Now fastener erstwhile asked if you want to commencement signaling aliases casting.

Set up nan surface cast.
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Navigate to nan app aliases surface connected your telephone that you want to mirror.

TV displaying a video

Open nan app you want to mirror.

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The show should past look connected your TV. You tin now position your telephone successful image aliases scenery mode, depending connected nan app aliases crippled you want to use.

TV displaying a video

View your phone's surface connected your TV.

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When done, return to nan Quick Settings area connected your phone, pat nan Cast button, and past disconnect.

Disconnect from nan Chromecast
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2. Use an adapter and cable

If you can't successfully reflector your telephone to your TV via a wireless option, there's ever nan wired approach. 

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For this, you'll request an HDMI cablegram and a USB-C to HDMI adapter, which you tin find astatine Amazon. Plug nan USB-C extremity into your phone, and past link an HDMI cablegram betwixt nan adapter and your TV. After connecting nan adapter and cable, nan surface connected your Android telephone will automatically look connected your TV.

TV pinch Angry Birds displayed

Use a cablegram and adapter.

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