{"id":1937,"date":"2025-11-17T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:23:00","slug":"the-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-imac-into-a-studio-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/the-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-imac-into-a-studio-display\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate way to convert an old iMac into a Studio Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/The-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-iMac-into-a-Studio-Display.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>Way back in 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> added a very handy feature to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/imac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iMacs<\/a>, allowing them to be used as a monitor for another <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> \u2013 typically a MacBook. Known as Target Display Mode, the company unfortunately dropped the feature from the model launched in late 2014 and it has never returned.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do the same with later iMacs, there is <a href=\"https:\/\/astropad.com\/blog\/step-by-step-guide-how-to-use-your-imac-as-a-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an app for that<\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/08\/12\/use-imac-as-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we outlined last year<\/a>. But Quinn Nelson at Snazzy Labs opted instead for the ultimate conversion \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"imac,mac,studio-display\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1028596\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/17\/the-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-imac-into-a-studio-display\/#more-1028596\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 2009, Apple added a very handy feature to iMacs, allowing them to be used as a monitor for another Mac \u2013 typically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/the-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-imac-into-a-studio-display\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}