Sharing Your Screen

Click the Share Screen button located in your meeting controls.
Select one of these screen share options:
- Basic: Share your entire desktop, specific application window(s), whiteboard, or iPhone/iPad screen.
  Note: Users can select multiple desktop programs at once, instead of sharing their entire desktop. You must be on version 5.4.3 or higher. Hold the Shift key on macOS or the Ctrl key on Windows to select more than one application.
Important: if you are sharing a video, you must enable these features, located in the bottom-left corner of the share window:
- Share sound: If you check this option, any sound played by your computer will be shared in the meeting. Select the down arrow just to the right of the Share Sound option to switch between Mono and Stereo (high fidelity) audio options.
- Optimize for video clip: Check this if you will be sharing a video clip in full screen mode. Do not check this otherwise, as it may cause the shared screen to be blurry. Your camera will be muted while sharing.
Click Share.
When the sharing process is started and 80% of devices acknowledge receiving the shared screen, you will see a notification banner stating Participants can now see your shared screen, or whatever you have chosen to share.

Notes:

Zoom will automatically switch to fullscreen to optimize the shared screen view. To exit full-screen, click Exit Full Screen in the top-right corner or press the Esc key.
To disable automatic full screen when viewing a shared screen, adjust the Window size when screen sharing behavior in your desktop client settings.
On Mac OS 10.15 Catalina and later, you need to allow Zoom access to screen recording to share your screen. You can do this in your System Preferences. Select the Security & Privacy option, click the Privacy tab, scroll down to Screen Recording, and finally check the option for zoom.us.

Share screen menu

When you start sharing your screen, the meeting controls will move into a menu that you can drag around your screen. They will be at the top of the screen initially.
Note: Some of the options detailed below may only be visible to the meeting host or co-host.

Mute/Unmute: Mute or unmute your microphone.
Start/Stop Video: Start or stop your in-meeting video.
Security: Access in-meeting security options.
Participants: View or manage the participants (if the host).
- Click the down arrow ⌄ to access Invite, where you can invite others to join the meeting.
Polling: Allows you to create, edit, and launch your polls. The options to create or launch polls will open up the Zoom web portal in your default browser. When the poll closes, you can view the results and can download the full poll report. If a poll has already been created, both host and co-host can launch the poll, but only the host can edit or add polls to the meeting.
New Share: Start a new screen share. You will be prompted to select which screen you want to share again.
Pause Share: Pause your current shared screen.
Annotate: Display annotation tools for drawing, adding text, etc.
More: Hover over more for additional options.
- Chat: Open the chat window.
- Record: Start recording locally or to the cloud.
- Meeting Info: Shows the current meeting's ID, host, passcode, invite link, your participant ID, and encryption status.
- Closed Caption / Live Transcript: (only available to the host): If you have enabled closed captioning and live transcription for your account, click here to access those options.
- Breakout Rooms: Start breakout rooms.
- Enable annotation for others: Allow or prevent the participants from annotating on your shared screen.
- Show/Hide Names of Annotators: Show or hide the participants' name when they are annotating on a screen share. If set to show, the participant's name will briefly display beside their annotation.
- Hide / Show video panel
- Hide / Show Floating Meeting Control
- Share Sound
- Optimize for video clip
  Note: Do not enable this setting if you are not sharing a full screen video clip, as it will blur your screen share. This should be enabled/disabled before and after the video you wish to play.
- End Meeting: Leave the meeting or end the meeting for all participants.

Using dual monitors

If you are using a dual-monitor setup, you can turn on the dual monitors feature to see the screen sharing on one monitor and participants on the second.