Each Mac or PC being accessed needs its own subscription. Parallels Access for iPad is initially available for purchase on the App Store(SM) as an annual subscription at $79.99 for each computer being accessed. Here are the availability and pricing details for the app:
There’s a free companion agent app that is installed on your Mac or Windows machine.
Parallels Access is an iPad exclusive app for now, but versions for Android and other platforms are being developed. Here’s my quick review of this very impressive new app: I’ve been testing the app out for a few weeks now, and it’s as good as advertised. Parellels coined the term ‘applifies’ to describe the way it customizes and optimizes desktop applications and enables iPad native taps, swipes, and gestures when using them. The app is published by Parellels, the makers of the excellent Parallels Desktop application for running virtual machines on a Mac. It ‘applifies’ your Windows and Mac apps to make them feel as it they’re native iPad apps. I come from the a TeamViewer world on a PC, where no user needed to be logged in, the screen could be switched off permanently and you could still log in remotely.Parallels Access is a new iPad app launching tonight – that promises to let you experience Mac and Windows applications as is they were made for the iPad. Ideally, I want to be able to connect to my mac, without a logged in users, and without the display showing - is this even possible with this tool, or should I save my cash and look for an alternative? I come from the a TeamViewer world on a PC, where no user needed to be logged in, the screen could be switched off permanently and you could still log in remotely. IE if I disconnect from parallels access client, the computer locks and the screen then switches off, this in turn seems to turn off the agent again and I have to go through the whole process via VNC again. This work around is a pain in the backside and has to be repeated after every connection. I can then disconnect the VNC client, which is annoying as this then locks the mac again. I have to connect with VNC, login in, wait for the access agent to 'turn on' and then I can access via the parallels access client. I think I am having a similar issue, if my M1 iMac is in 'sleep' mode (ie locked and the display is off) then access shows my computer as offline. This procedure is consistently repeatable. The spinning spoke-wheel shows it trying to connect, and in about a minute it does properly connect. Request for support has been generated to Parallels, who is investigating.įrom the iPad, I start Access to that remote Mac desktop computer (which is sitting at the MacOS user login screen), watch the iPad as the spinning spoke-wheel spins trying unsuccessfully to connect, tap "Disconnect", remove the app from the iPad's screen listing suspended apps (a double press of the iPad home button then swipe away the Access icon there), restart Access from the iPad home screen (which forces the app to login to my Parallels account again), then tap the icon for the remote Mac desktop machine. Then the iPad presents a spinning-spoke wheel on black background, and never connects. Access on iPad is set to request Mac username and password, which it does. In Sys Prefs the Mac is set to restart on power outage, which it does, and sits at user login screen (there are multiple user accounts on this Mac). Parallels Access on iPad does not connect if Mac has had a power outage.