I recently took a trip where my friends wanted to watch a streaming event on their phones, but our Airbnb’s TV didn’t include the matching app for us to play it or a cable subscription. Luckily, the television was hooked up to an Apple TV box, and playing it on the TV was a simple matter of firing up AirPlay from an iPhone and mirroring to the bigger screen.
While we fortunately had access to that Apple TV box, that’s not strictly necessary anymore. Many TVs now ship with built-in support for AirPlay, Chromecast or Miracast, all of which let you wirelessly connect your phone. The trickiest part isn’t whether you can connect your phone to your TV, because you probably can. Instead, you’ll need to know which wireless casting connection your phone supports and make sure the TV you want to connect to also supports it.
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