How To Use Screen Share

Turn Mac screen sharing on or off

You can utilise screen sharing to admission your Mac while yous're away, solve a problem on someone else'south Mac, or collaborate with others on a project such as a website or presentation.

When screen sharing is enabled on your Mac, your Mac desktop can be viewed from some other Mac on your network. While your screen is existence shared, the user of the other Mac sees what'south on your screen and tin open, move, and close files and windows, open apps, and even restart your Mac.

Plow on screen sharing on your Mac

On your Mac, choose Apple menu > Arrangement Preferences, then click Sharing .

Open Sharing preferences for me
If Remote Management is selected, deselect information technology.

You lot can't take both Screen Sharing and Remote Direction on at the same time.
Select the Screen Sharing checkbox.
To specify who tin share your screen, select one of the following:
- All users: Any of your computer's users can share your screen, except sharing-only users and guest users. If your Mac is connected to a network account server, anyone with an account on that server can share your screen using their network user name and password. See Join your Mac to a network account server.
- Simply these users: Screen sharing is restricted to specific users.
If yous selected "Only these users," click the Add button at the bottom of the users listing, then exercise one of the following:
- Select a user from Users & Groups, which includes all the users of your Mac except sharing-merely users and guest users.
- Select a user from Network Users or Network Groups, which includes users and groups with network server accounts. Network users and members of network groups can use their network name and countersign to connect to your Mac for screen sharing.
To set additional options for screen sharing, click Computer Settings, and so select one or both of the post-obit:
- Anyone may request permission to control screen: Before other computer users begin sharing the screen of your Mac, they can ask for permission instead of entering a user name and password.
- VNC viewers may control screen with countersign: Other users can share your screen using a VNC viewer app—on iPad or a Windows PC, for example—by entering the password you specify here. If you select this choice, you should create a very secure password.

Turn off screen sharing on your Mac

On your Mac, cull Apple carte du jour > System Preferences, then click Sharing .

Open Sharing preferences for me
Deselect the Screen Sharing checkbox.

For additional remote direction capabilities, such equally installing and configuring apps, helping remote users, and creating detailed reports, yous can purchase Apple Remote Desktop from the App Store. Apple Remote Desktop is used to remotely manage Mac computers in a commercial or business environment.

Screen sharing and Apple tree Remote Desktop screen sharing are compatible with Virtual Network Calculating (VNC), an industry standard for decision-making computers remotely on a network using TCP/IP.