Meta Portal Given New Life As Extended Display
The Meta Portal, a device abandoned by Meta in 2022, can be repurposed as a wireless extended display for Apple devices. A developer created an application called Wormhole Display that enables this functionality by leveraging the device's underlying Android hardware. This solution allows users to utilize the Portal's screen and speakers for screen mirroring or extended desktop environments via AirPlay.
- ▪Meta abandoned the Portal device in 2022, leaving many units unused but still functional as Android tablets.
- ▪A developer named pgodlews created an APK called Wormhole Display to transform the Portal into an AirPlay receiver.
- ▪The application is an Android port of UxPlay that uses the device's H.264 decoder for efficient video processing.
- ▪Users can connect Mac, iPhone, or iPad devices to the Portal for either screen mirroring or extended display purposes.
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Meta Portal Given New Life As Extended Display No comments by: Zoe Skyforest September 18, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy The Meta Portal and associated devices are effectively defunct, having been abandoned by the company in 2022. If you’ve still got one at home, you might be wondering what to do with it. That’s where Wormhole Display from [pgodlews] comes in handy. The thing about the Meta Portal, and much of the rest of the related lineup, is that they were effectively just heavily branded Android tablets. The screens and speakers were good, and the basic functionality was all there — albeit locked down somewhat to prevent users from easily repurposing them at will. However, it’s possible to enable Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and turn the device to doing your own bidding.
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