MacOS Catalina and Teams Screen Sharing

Anonymous
2019-10-08T22:15:11+00:00

I updated to MacOS Catalina and now I cannot share my app screens. I can share my desktop, but that is all others can see.

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Anonymous
2019-10-09T01:10:02+00:00

Found it.

System Preferences

Security & Privacy

Privacy

Screen Recording

My system had an entry (unchecked) for Microsoft teams. I think it asked me as I was launching but I blew by it. Not sure how you'd add it if it's not there. You just have to turn it on, and Teams screen sharing will work.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-29T16:18:48+00:00

    Thank You Leandro. Re-sizing (multiple times) shows up desktop and other apps in the sharing options.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-29T16:16:21+00:00

    Agree 100% on the "unbelievable" part that MS hasn't fixed this super annoying and BLOCKER issue in their product.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-29T05:27:33+00:00

    Hi, I just (by luck) found that the screen share options disappear when you have TEAMS in full screen mode. I pressed the green circle on the top-left corner of the TEAMS window to make it smaller and I finally had access to the screen share options and the message that kept asking to allow screen recording disappeared. Hope this helps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-22T15:39:20+00:00

    After reading all the complaints on this thread I decided to raise this myself with O365 support and the rep I have been in communication with acknowledged the issue. They pointed me to the below Teams Bug suggestion and suggested that I upvote it.

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38981038-share-screen-desktop-mac-doesn-t-work

    I'd suggest everyone in this thread does the same, maybe then they'll fix this issue.

    It's unbelievable that this still hasn't been fixed on a core MS product, especially with it being used by a much wider audience due to COVID

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