Sharing your screen during a video call is no longer headache-inducing, at least not if you’re using FaceTime and, soon, WhatsApp.
“We’re adding the ability to share your screen during a video call on WhatsApp,” Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO, announced the new feature in a Facebook post with a photo.
How to share screen on WhatsApp
It’s important to note that this feature is rolling out to users gradually as of publication. It’s coming out in a phased manner on Android, iOS, and Windows, so if the procedure outlined below doesn’t work for you, it means the feature hasn’t rolled out to your device just yet.
However, if the feature is enabled for you, the steps below are how it works, and should give a strong sense of how screen-sharing will work if it’s added for everyone very shortly.
- Â Â Â Open WhatsApp
- Â Â Â Start a video call with a contact
- Â Â Â At the bottom of the display, tap the screen-sharing icon (a phone with an arrow on it)
- Â Â Â Confirm that you want to share your screen
- Â Â Â Tap on Stop Sharing whenever you’d like to stop your screen-share
At this stage, though, it hasn’t rolled out to us yet, so we can’t test how many people you can screen share to at once. However, in the photo shared by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, you can see more than two people in the call, so we can safely assume that this feature will support group calls.
