How to Share Screen in Facebook Messenger?

This is a guest post by Brendan Hesse

Facebook enables screen sharing and empowers its Messengerapp with yet another amazing attribute! This certainly is a piece of good news for its 1.3 Bn users.

Messenger Rooms, Workplace, or any other Facebook video-calling apps now let you browse tabs, photos, videos, and even more during your video calls.

Earlier, the feature was launched for desktop, but with the pandemic gracing people with work from home, Facebook has widened its screen-sharing feature. Now, one can access it via iOS and Android. However, the feature works differently for various devices. Mobile phones can share whatever is on their screen while desktop users have the option to choose to share selected applications or the entire desktop view.

Competing with Existing Players

Screen sharing is available globally, making Facebook a competition against leading video-calling applications such as Zoom, Skype, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. With the pandemic where many depend on technologies such as this to connect and socialize with the world outside, Facebook makes it easy for people to connect, socialize and work from the comfort of their homes.

This feature was welcomed by many!

Hold meetings, discuss work with colleagues, or catch up with friends and family, and relive your memories while flicking through your photos with high-resolution quality without disturbances.

Also read – Messenger launches a new chat plugin to allow business websites to connect with non-Facebook users. 

According to Facebook’s news post, we learned that the Messenger app allows sharing up to 8 people. Moreover, Rooms allow sharing for 16 people at the same time. While using a desktop and web you share with 50 people. Facebook is diligently working to expand their limits and roll it out to the world so that no one is excluded. 

Sharing Your Screen on Messenger is no hustle, know-how.

# Firstly, update your app to the latest version to avoid any further confusion. The screen sharing is available only after the required update. Desktop users do not have to worry about anything as this feature is not new for them.

Know how to share your screen via desktop and mobile.

# Using Desktop

• Open Facebook.com, Messenger.com, Messenger Rooms, or Messenger Workplace Rooms.
• Select the contacts or create a room.
• Start the video call by clicking on the camera option.
• Select ‘Screen Share’ from the bottom menu.
• You will be asked with different options like the Entire Screen, Application Window, and Browser tab. Select the suitable.
• After the screen sharing has started, you can navigate and proceed through the apps or shared tabs if necessary.
• To end the screen sharing, you can click on the stop option at the top.

# Using Mobile Phones

• Open the updated Messenger app.
• Select the contacts and start a video call.
• To start screen sharing, you must swipe up and expand the options bar.
• Options bar will help you with the screen sharing option.
• Select ‘Screen Sharing’ then ‘Start Sharing’ and ultimately click ‘Start Broadcasting’.
• You can use and navigate through all apps while sharing your screen.
• To stop sharing, you must swipe out the sharing and you will be back to the video call.

The screen sharing option is available on the toolbar with the mic option to mute and unmute.

Easy, isn’t it?

Follow these steps and enjoy effortless and timeless calls without any hassles.

While sharing your screen, the chat interface will move to the top of the screen. You can watch your friends or colleagues and not miss out on any fun or important points.

Furthermore, Facebook is working to determine guidelines to decide how many people can share screens. The creator can allow a few users or all of them to be able to share their screens if needed. The official announcement regarding the same is awaited by many users.

Connecting with people across borders without having to download any new app. Update and you are ready to go. Facebook has no plans to charge for audio or video calling. Hence, you can enjoy unlimited and free calls with all your friends and family.

Do not forget to use the pretty filters for your next call!

While following these steps if you face any issues, feel free to contact us and we try our best to resolve all your issues.

Happy Video Calling.