Pair your iPhone or iPad

Each iPhone or iPad pairs with BoxView Helper once. Pairing gives that phone its own key, which encrypts everything between it and the helper.

#Pair

1. On the Mac, choose Pair a Phone… from BoxView Helper's menu. A window shows an 8-character code. It works once, for 5 minutes.
2. In BoxView, connect to the Mac and open the session controls. A section called BoxView Helper on and the Mac's name appears.
3. Tap Pair with BoxView Helper, enter the code shown on the Mac, and tap Pair.

BoxView says Paired with BoxView Helper, and the section becomes Mac sound & devices. On the Mac, the window says Paired.: click Done. The phone stays paired, also after BoxView is reinstalled.

A code allows three wrong tries, then closes. Choose Pair a Phone… again for a new one.

#Forget a phone

On the Mac, open Paired Phones in BoxView Helper's menu and choose Forget next to the phone. It can't connect to the helper again until it pairs with a new code.

#Several Mac accounts

BoxView Helper runs in the Mac account that opened it. If several people use the Mac from BoxView, each opens BoxView Helper in their own account: the first one takes port 47900, and each also listens on a port of its own, so BoxView finds the helper of the account it logged in as.