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Are you looking to display the images from your phone on your TV for the clearest view? Are you struggling to find the simplest way to transmit them effortlessly?
1. The Simplest 8 Ways to Cast Phone Images to Your TV
Are you eager to have your phone's images displayed on the TV for the clearest view? Are you struggling to find the simplest way to effortlessly transmit them?
With just 8 straightforward methods, the images from your phone can now appear on your TV screen in the most vivid, realistic, and vibrant way possible.
1. Use MHL Connection (compatible with Android phones)
MHL is a connection standard that helps transmit images and sound from the device to an external screen. To use MHL, you need a phone that supports MHL and a TV with an HDMI (MHL) port. The regular HDMI port might work, but the chances are quite low.
Specific steps include:
Step 1: Connect the smallest end of the MHL cable to the phone's charging port.
Step 2: Connect the HDMI end of the MHL cable to the TV's HDMI port, then connect the USB end to the TV's USB port.
Step 3: Use the remote to press the input button on your TV (this button may be labeled as INPUT, SOURCE, or have an arrow icon, depending on your TV).
Step 4: Then select the HDMI/MHL signal.
Step 5: At this point, all content displayed on your phone will be projected onto the large screen of the TV. You can easily watch movies, browse the web, or play games on the TV's big screen.
Note: The MHL cable works best with the HDMI (MHL) port on the TV. If your TV only has a regular HDMI port, it may still connect, but the support may not be high.
2. Use the Phone Screen Casting Feature
Most Smart TVs have a screen casting feature. This feature may be called Miracast, Mirroring, Screen Share, or image mirroring. However, fundamentally, all of them work through a shared Wi-Fi connection.
How to use this feature:
Step 1: Activate screen mirroring/Miracast, Screen Mirroring, etc., on the TV.
Step 2: Activate this feature on the phone. (On the phone, this feature, if available, is usually in the settings, named screen casting, image mirroring, my screen casting, Screen Mirroring, etc.).
Step 3: The phone will search for and connect to the TV, and then the phone screen will be cast on the TV.
3. For Sony TVs, you can use the Photo Share or Google Cast feature
All current Sony Internet TVs and Sony Android TVs have the Photo Share feature. With this feature, you can easily share photos from your phone to the TV (up to 10 phones can connect each time).
Meanwhile, Google Cast is a special feature integrated into Sony Android TVs, allowing you to cast YouTube or cast images from the phone to the TV.
4. Screen Casting YouTube from Phone to TV (Phone with YouTube app can use this)
Your images can be saved as videos on YouTube. So, casting YouTube on the TV is an effective way to view images on the TV.
Although Smart TVs or TVs with TV Boxes also have YouTube apps, casting from the phone is undoubtedly much easier. Simply open the video you want to cast on the phone, then select the casting icon, and the phone will automatically search for casting devices, and you can choose the TV.
5. DLNA (compatible with Android phones)
This is a simple wireless connection method, but it only applies to Android phones and TVs with an Internet connection.
DLNA feature on different phone models has slight differences, for example, Sony phones have a connection icon, Samsung phones have Smart View, HTC phones have HTC Connect, LG phones have Smart Share, Oppo phones have DLNA icon.
Your simple operation is to enable DLNA sharing on the phone, find the TV you want to cast, and finally, agree to connect on the TV.
6. Use applications developed by the manufacturer (compatible with Android and iPhone)
Nowadays, manufacturers develop phone control apps that come with features allowing you to transfer images, music, and videos from your phone to the TV. Examples include LG smart TV, TCL smart TV, Panasonic smart TV, Samsung smart TV.
7. Use AirPlay (for iPhone)
AirPlay is a wireless image transmission protocol from iPhone, iPad to the TV developed by Apple (similar apps on Android include Miracast).
The downside of this method is that your TV needs an Apple TV Box, a device that turns a regular TV into an Apple-branded Smart TV.
The connection process is quite simple; you need to download and activate AirPlay on Apple TV. Then select AirPlay on iPhone 4 and above with the same Wifi connection as Apple TV.
8. Use HDMI, VGA, or AV ports to transfer images from iPhone to TV
For iPhones, you can't connect with a phone via MHL cable like Android. Instead, you need to prepare various types of adapter cables and connect them to the TV.
With these 8 methods, transferring images from the phone to the TV is no longer a challenging issue. You can share photos taken from your phone on the TV to enjoy with your family.
