Give or take control when screen sharing on Teams

Microsoft Teams for personal use is an excellent collaboration tool. A notable new feature is the ability to give and take control during screen sharing. This proves extremely useful during presentations on Teams, allowing multiple speakers to advance slides or collaborate on documents in real time. It’s also beneficial for assisting a less tech-savvy friend with their computer or including them in an online game without complicated setups.

In essence, this feature enables you to share your screen control with another person during a meeting, which improves collaboration, facilitates troubleshooting, and provides guided assistance.

Learn more about screen sharing in Teams.

 

Give control while screen sharing

Should you wish for another meeting participant to alter a file, assist with your presentation, or provide a demonstration, you have the option to grant them control. Once granted, they will have the ability to select, edit, and make various changes to the shared screen. Control of the sharing will be shared between you, and you can reclaim control at any moment.

To begin, share your screen and then hover over the screen sharing indicator at the top of your screen.

Then select ‘Give control’ from the presenter toolbar, which will appear when hovering over the screen sharing indicator.

Warning: Only grant control of your app to individuals you trust. Those with control can issue commands that may impact your system or other applications.

 

Take control of a shared screen

To take control while another person is sharing, select ‘Take control’.

The person sharing can approve or deny your request. Make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen while you have control. Select ‘Release control’ to stop sharing control.

 

You share, we listen.

We are always grateful to receive your feedback and suggestions to make Teams better.

• Report bugs and glitches by sending us relevant feedback using the in-app form. Please include diagnostic logs and screenshots to help us to investigate your issue. Learn more how to send feedback or suggest a feature in Teams (free)
• If you have suggestions for new features or changes to the existing ones, you can vote and submit ideas on Microsoft Teams (free) Feedback Portal.
• You can always create a post on the Microsoft Support Community as well.