No ability to minimise or customise the iPad screen broadcast window on the MacBook.

I often have conversations with my colleagues and friends in Discord on my MacBook using ScreenSharing (on my MacBook). For example, I might be explaining a topic or problem in programming or maths, and at some point I need to demonstrate some calculations or draw something, like a graph of a function. To do this, I would like to use my iPad with a stylus so that the iPad screen appears on my MacBook screen. Then I would see my iPad screen on my MacBook and my colleagues in Discord, to whom I stream my MacBook screen, would see the iPad screen. 


It's a much-needed feature I've been waiting for since 2021, and even the new MacOS doesn't have it.


HOWEVER, everything works fine on the iPad. I mean, if I'm streaming my Macbook screen on the iPad, I can hide it, although this feature should be improved on the iPad too. But the way it works now on the iPad is you stream the Macbook screen on the iPad, you can gesture to hide that screen, go into discord, turn on the screen demo there, gesture back to the Macbook screen stream, and the guys in discord see the screen, hear you, and you hear them. 


I would like to see the same thing (at least in this way) on the macbook, for now you can switch on the screen demo in discord and then switch on the iPad screen demo, the guys in discord will see and hear you and you will hear them (i.e. everything works in the background too), but there is no way to minimise the stream, only to close it to return to normal work with the macbook.


So, as we can see, MacOS has the potential for this, for example it is even implemented in iPadOS, although I think it could be improved.


Please, it's literally a day job for the team that wrote ScreenSharing iPad to Macbook and back.


I attach the screenshots below:






MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.0

Posted on Jul 28, 2024 1:17 PM

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No ability to minimise or customise the iPad screen broadcast window on the MacBook.

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