Skype is testing the ability to share your iPhone’s screen during video calls

Skype users may presently survive able to portion their iPhone’s enshroud during video calls.

The Microsoft-owned app is currently trialing this characteristic alongside beta testers on the latest Skype Insider build, which comes alongside an pick to portion the device’s enshroud during a video call.

If you’re inwards the beta program, yous tin forcefulness out drive this out for yourself past times tapping a three-dotted menu, as well as hence select a novel Share Screen pick from the popup menu.

I couldn’t boot the bucket this to work, simply the press icon seen overstep of postal service indicates that this capability takes payoff of iOS’s built-in enshroud sharing characteristic available through Control Center.

Anything displayed on your phone’s enshroud tin forcefulness out survive shared alongside people on the call, whether you’d similar to demo your coworkers a PowerPoint presentation, perchance exercise roughly online shopping alongside your bestie or “share your swipes on dating apps,” equally Microsoft puts it.

It seems that iOS users volition get-go tap the Share Screen push clitoris inwards the Skype app, which volition convey upwards iOS’s Screen Recording menu. This volition convey upwards iOS’s Screen Recording menu. From there, you’ll select Skype equally a video broadcast destination, as well as hence tap the pick Start Broadcast.

Doing hence volition induce got yous dorsum to the Skype app, alongside anything displayed on your device’s enshroud automatically captured inwards a alive broadcast stream. It’s similar making an iPhone enshroud recording that streams the video to Skype inwards existent fourth dimension rather than salve it to the Photos library.

According to Microsoft, this is coming to both iOS as well as Android versions of Skype. To assistance the theatre examination upcoming Skype features, survive certain to sign upwards for beta access at skype.com/en/insider.

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