![]() ![]() The following menu appears: Screen sharing through Messages. While you’re in a chat with another person in the OS X/macOS Messages app, click the Buddies menu. There’s a reason for that these are numbers that I’ve blocked on my iPhone and in FaceTime. Would you believe that you can share your screen or ask to share the screen of another person through Messages? You may have on noticed that the rightmost panel of the image above shows a lot of phone numbers as being blocked from doing screen sharing. As seen below, those preferences provide a way to not only scale the screen like the Scaling button does, but also to change the quality of the remote Mac’s image and allow or block other users who may want to share the Mac’s screen. While sharing a screen, the Mac uses a “Screen Sharing” app that has its own set of preferences. It’s also possible to use the Mac’s Full Screen Mode, in which the remote Mac’s display fills your screen.įinally, the Clipboard button gives you the power to either copy something on your Mac and paste it onto the other Mac, or vice versa. In the latter mode, the screen will scroll as you bring your cursor near the edge of the remote screen. When clicked, the Scaling button toggles between fitting the remote screen into your display and scaling it to its natural size. ![]() You might be having the other person show you something remotely, and then you can take control to remedy a situation or show them how to do something. The first two - showing a cursor and a “target”, as well as a pair of binoculars - are used to control the remote Mac or alternatively just watch the screen. There are several controls on the top left of the remote Mac window: Screen sharing controls A shared screen appearing on a Mac screen You may need to sign in as the Mac’s user again, or you might even see a black screen if the Mac has gone to sleep. The remote Mac’s screen should now appear on your Mac (see image below).
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