Universal control not showing up.

[Christifer]

As the title stated I can not find the universal control option under displays. The option is just absent. I have checked to make sure Bluetooth is on as well as wifi. I'm in the same network and using the same apple account. Handoff is turned on I'm at a loss. I'm on Mac os 12.7.2 but have also tried it on 14.1.2 will no luck as well. I have two other imacs and the options are there. It's just missing from this unit. Other information that might be helpful. The unit is an iMac 21.5 4k retina 3.1 GHz quad core Intel core i5. Thanks for any help.

 

[TonyAguila]

As the title stated I can not find the universal control option under displays. The option is just absent. I have checked to make sure Bluetooth is on as well as wifi. I'm in the same network and using the same apple account. Handoff is turned on I'm at a loss. I'm on Mac os 12.7.2 but have also tried it on 14.1.2 will no luck as well. I have two other imacs and the options are there. It's just missing from this unit. Other information that might be helpful. The unit is an iMac 21.5 4k retina 3.1 GHz quad core Intel core i5. Thanks for any help.

Not sure where Universal Control is under Monterey, exactly, but under Sonoma Systems Settings, go to Displays and at the bottom, click on Advanced…

I also suggest updating Sonoma to version 14.2.1 (23C71).

 

[Neptyoon]

Nope. No Advanced button in Display

 

[TonyAguila]

Nope. No Advanced button in Display

Okay, you wrote that you could not find the universal control option under Displays. I’m booted into my Monterey drive, version 12.7.5 (21H1222). If you are on version 12.7.2, there could still be some differences.

In System Preferences -> Displays, you will find the Universal Control… button at the bottom right of the window. I don’t know if you will find what you’re looking for in the next window.

 

[house]

I have the same problem using 12.7.6 Monterey on an imac and the bottom menu with "Universal Control" just isn't there...

 

[house]

 

[TonyAguila]

What model of Mac are you on? I’m on a 2022 Mac Studio Max. I normally run in Sequoia but when I boot into macOS Monterey version 12.7.6 (21H1320), from System Preferences -> Displays, I get this window:

and the Universal Control… button gives me:

Do you see any feature there that you can use? Maybe some of the options/settings are hardware-dependent, either on your Mac or on your display(s).

 

[house]

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015)

 

[house]

I can get to that radio button about allowing a "handoff" in the General tab of System Preferences, but unchecking it doesn't disable Universal Control. Force Quitting Univ. Control in Activity Monitor also doesn't keep it from reopening. I'd like to disable it altogether...

 

[TonyAguila]

I can get to that radio button about allowing a "handoff" in the General tab of System Preferences, but unchecking it doesn't disable Universal Control. Force Quitting Univ. Control in Activity Monitor also doesn't keep it from reopening. I'd like to disable it altogether...

Your screenshot does not look like what I get when I go directly from the main window and click on Displays, which is what my first screenshot looks like. It’s not easy for me to jump back and forth between startup disks but when I get to it, I will show you again what the main System Settings looks like on my end, in Monterey.

By the way, your model identifier is either iMac16,1 (1.6 GHz) or iMac16,2 (2.8 GHz). Maximum system version is indeed Monterey.

I will post a screen grab of the main settings window when I can find the time to fall back. The only reason I still have a working Monterey system is I run a couple of really old apps that have not been updated since. And Apple does not make it easy to jump back and forth between versions of macOS.

I’m only glad that macOS 15.2 seems to be on the horizon. I’ve had tons of problems from version 15.0 up to 15.1.1 so I took the plunge to jump up to 15.2 release candidate. Rumors have it that when 15.2 is finally released, users can jump up to 15.2 without going through the intermediate versions. But a number of 3rd-party apps still have problems, especially Adobe, which are the Crown Jewels for the kind of work I do. Shame on them. I have trashed my Affinity suite a while back. They were worse.

 

[house]