Share your screen
During a direct call you can send your screen to the other person instead of your camera. They see it live, filling their call screen, exactly where your video would otherwise be.
Before you start
Three things decide whether the screen-share button appears in the call controls:
| Requirement | Detail |
|---|---|
| A direct call | Screen sharing is not available in group calls, the same as the camera |
| The workspace allows it | An administrator can turn Allow screen sharing off for everyone |
| Your app supports it | Available on the web, iOS, and Android |
If any of those is not met, the button is simply not there.
Start sharing
- Answer or place a direct call and wait for it to connect.
- In the control bar, select the screen share button.
- Choose what to share when your device asks.
What step 3 looks like depends on where you are:
Web — the browser opens its own picker so you can choose a tab, a window, or your whole screen.
Android — the system asks you to confirm that HushChat may capture your screen. A recording indicator stays visible while you share.
iOS — sharing is two steps by design. Tapping the button brings up the system broadcast picker; select HushChat in it and then Start Broadcast. iOS always shares the whole screen — it cannot share a single app.
Once you are sharing, a pill appears under the call title reading You're sharing your screen, and
the screen-share button changes to a stop icon.
Sharing your whole screen shares everything on it — notifications, other chats, open documents. On the web, sharing a single tab or window instead of the entire screen keeps the rest private.
Stop sharing
Any of these ends the share, and they all have the same effect:
- Select the screen-share button again in the call controls.
- Use your browser's own stop-sharing control on the web.
- Stop the broadcast from the system on iOS, or from the capture notification on Android.
The pill disappears and the other person goes back to seeing your avatar, or your camera if you turn it on. The call itself keeps running — stopping a share never hangs up.
Camera and screen share are mutually exclusive
You can send one video picture at a time, so the two controls take turns:
- Starting a screen share turns your camera off.
- Turning your camera on stops the screen share.
Both buttons stay available throughout, so switching back and forth is a single tap either way.
You do not get a preview of your own screen inside the call — the small self-view tile only ever
shows your camera. The You're sharing your screen pill is how you confirm the share is live.
What the other person sees
Your screen replaces whatever was in their main call view, at full size. They do not need to accept anything or press anything; it just appears. Their own camera, mute, and speaker controls carry on working normally while they watch.
Only the picture is shared. Your microphone is unchanged — you are still heard through your normal audio, and muting yourself does not stop the share.
If sharing does not start
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Nothing happens after the picker closes | You dismissed or cancelled the picker. This is not an error — nothing was shared, and you can try again |
Screen share unavailable | The share could not be started. Check that the call is still connected, then try again |
| No screen-share button at all | You are in a group call, or Allow screen sharing is off for the workspace |
Allow screen sharing is a workspace-wide switch on the Workspace Settings screen, available to administrators. Turning it off removes the screen-share button for every member of the workspace; it does not affect audio or video calling, which have their own switches.