Keynote exits full screen when annotating in Zoom

Hi,

When I was using keynote 14.5 and zoom (v 6.6.10), annotate within zoom while I was sharing my screen and presenting my keynote presentation at full screen worked just great. But now, with keynote 15.1 and the same version of zoom, every time I try to make a zoom annotation on a full screen presentation, keynote exits out of my full screen presentation (and the active app switches over to zoom). I'm not sure why this is happening and I haven't been able to resolve after experimenting with both zoom and keynote settings.


Is anyone else having this problem? I'm using Mac OS 26.2 on an M3 Pro Macbook Pro. Thanks

MacBook Pro (M3 Pro, 2023)

Posted on Feb 4, 2026 2:02 PM

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Mar 10, 2026 12:36 PM in response to suzannafromon

I tried using google slides to see if it would be a similar problem but not at all! It works perfectly.


Apple please fix this issue. The messages you get on Keynote now after Apple's updates are, Do you want to continue to share Keynote and when you say yes get another message in the controls showing that the screen is paused and obviously not working for the viewers. Besides that, in that mode the cursor becomes invisible and the only way to exist by hitting escape since you can't see where the cursor is.



Feb 14, 2026 6:47 PM in response to Tim_w_a_mac

I am having a similar problem on my iPad Pro. I would usually split screen keynote for presentation and Notion for my notes. I could screen mirror my presentation at full screen, but now with 15.1 keynote needs to be full screen on iPad and I cannot go split screen. I tried to use the slide over tool, which works until I move my notes on notion and then the presentation jumps to mirror my iPad screen.


I hope this gets fixed quickly.

I’m using an iPad Pro 3rd Gen on 26.2.1.

May 11, 2026 5:48 PM in response to Tim_w_a_mac

Hi, I've had two issues related to sharing my screen once Keynote is in presentation mode with Zoom: 1. my cursor disappearing, but after making it bigger under System Prefs it had returned. 2. The BIG unresolved problem - Chat. Once I'm sharing my screen and in presenter mode Zoom's chat disappears entirely. This doesn't change whether chat is locked into my window or popped out. I can see and use it when I'm not in presenter mode, but as soon as I present it totally disappears. I can see if someone adds to chat but clicking on chat (or its arrow) does nothing but make a blue highlight box appear around the mic icon. Same thing happens if I hit share once I'm in presentation mode - it doesn't do anything and clicking on its icon or the arrow makes the mic icon light up with the same square blue box. OS 26.4.1 and Keynote 15.2.1 (subscription). It's been this way for 3 weeks.

Keynote exits full screen when annotating in Zoom

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