How to use LogMeIn on your iPhone - Technology Evangelist

Our favorite suite of remote access products is supported on the iPhone, although a wee bit slowly. If you're not familiar with LogMeIn's suite I would highly suggest checking out our introduction article. If you're using LogMeIn and have an iPhone, well, you're in luck! With a very simple change you'll be able to access any of your computers via your iPhone, although WiFi is highly suggested.

To enable a computer to work on an iPhone we'll need to change how LogMeIn treats the remote session. Log in to your account and open the computer you want to access. I suggest doing this on a PC although it will work from an iPhone. On the left side you'll see a section called Preferences. Click on then then click on the 'Remote Control' preference option.

In the top section you'll find an option called 'Default Remote Control' and it's probably set to ActiveX. Select 'HTML' and hit save.

You're done! You'll be able to access your system remotely via your iPhone and control it by clicking around the page. It's a wee bit slow but it does work, and hey, that's better than nothing. What would be really nice is if LogMeIn looked at the browser type and auto-selected HTML for iPhone users. That would allow for the faster access when at a Mac or PC with the slower HTML access when on an iPhone.

Taryn, not sue what you mean. The viewer works on both Macs and PCs as well as the iPhone using this hack. The server works on Macs and PCs but at this time not on Leopard. Actually, LogMeIn on Leopard isn't very pretty right now but they are working on it according to their blog.

does this not work with LogMeIn Free? I only see Mozilla, Java and ActiveX as my choices

Yes, i am having the same problem. It doesn't seem to work with LogMeIn Free. I also just upgraded to Leopard on my mac so I am not sure if that has anything to do with it but I cannot view my computer from my iPhone.

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