How to connect two or more external displays to an Apple Silicon M1 Mac

Apple’s range of MacBooks that use the company’s own Silicon M1 or M2 processors cannot natively connect more than one external monitor, which is a massive limitation on the previous Intel-based generation of Mac laptops that could run two displays when connected to a USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 docking station or hub. .

The M1 Pro and M1 Max do support multiple external displays. We hoped the M2 would lose the M1 limitation, but it survives on the plain M2; when available, expect the M2 Pro and M2 Max to support more displays, just like their M1 siblings.

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