ARC on iPad?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

The main Roon app is both a remote control for the server and an endpoint. It’s not pointless if one wants to control Roon with it (and it can do much more than the ARC app). When using the iPad as an endpoint, you can choose the iPad as the output, and it definitely can output to the USB port. E.g., look that this signal path from another thread:

Depending on the DAC, it may also be possible to select the DAC as output in Settings > Audio, but this may not be the case for all DACs. See this thread, for instance:

Inability to achieve bit-perfect audio on iPad with USB DAC (ref#1O2D45)

What’s happening? · Other How can we help? · None of the above Other options · Other Describe the issue No fixed output on iPad when connected to USB DAC I’m using the Roon app on my iPad Pro, making my iPad an endpoint. My iPad is connected to an external DAC using USB-C. In the Roon settings, I have chosen ‘Fixed volume”, so as to be bitperfect to the DAC. However, even though I’ve selected Fixed volume, I’m still able to control the volume on my iPad, which affects the volume on my DAC. …

Regarding the display, I don’t quite understand if you do or don’t want the app to use the whole screen, because you don’t seem to like it for the main app:

@michael.durio

And aside from it appearing using all the screen’s real estate

but seem unhappy that ARC doesn’t?

@michael.durio

It’s kind of a joke that roon can’t blow up the size of ARC to utilize the iPad’s screen space.

For what it’s worth, you can definitely run the main app in windowed mode if you have a modern version of iPadOS that supports windowed mode, and if your iPad is large enough. This is on a 12.9" iPad: