It may be that on more than one occasion you have encountered the need to share your smartphone screen in Facebook Messenger video calls but you don't know how to do it. For this reason, we are going to talk about a new function that allows the instant messaging service itself to be able to make use of it both in individual video calls that you make and in group calls of up to 8 people.
In this way, you can be more precise when it comes to telling an aspect or showing some type of content to the people with whom you are talking, so that they can be seeing what is happening on your mobile phone and what you want to show them. .
This function is very useful for a wide variety of purposes, starting with mobile technical assistance services or the use of a particular application. In this way, you can show other people how to perform a certain action, as a "remote desktop" but having control of your smartphone from a distance but being able to show the screen to another person to help you or be the one to help others by showing the different steps to follow for a certain action.
So now you can count on three camera modes for video calls you do on Facebook Messenger. You can use the front camera so that they can see your face while talking to other people, the rear camera so that you can show them what is in front of you or choose to show the screen of the device itself to the people with whom you are making the video call.
How to share your mobile screen on Facebook Messenger
The first thing you should do if you are interested share your mobile screen on Facebook messenger is, logically, to access the instant messaging application from your mobile phone, to later access the conversation with the person or group of people (up to 8) with whom you want to share your screen.
Once you are in the conversation in question, you just have to click on the button. start video call that you have in the upper right door of the conversation.
Once you are in the video call, you will have to make the lower options tab visible. If you have the full screen you will only have to click on the screen and when that you will have to display the entire lower window by sliding your finger up to show the different options of the video call.
Once you have displayed it, you will see how the main controls that you will find in the "Things to do together" section appear in the lower options window, where you will find Share screen, which will be on the option that you must press to use this function.
After clicking on this option, a information window in this regard if it is the first time that you use the function, so that you will only have to give your approval by clicking on start now. At that moment, Facebook Messenger will start sharing the screen.
At that moment you will only have to minimize Messenger and return to the desktop of your smartphone and the rest of the participants of the conversation will be able to see what you are seeing on the screen, with the advantage that this supposes for different applications, mainly focused on teaching some type of content to another person, show some kind of problem or offer help.
At that moment you will be looking at your smartphone as you would normally but with the particularity that you will find that in a small floating window you will be able to see the other person on the call, something that is useful to be able to maintain the essence of the conversation and that, at the same time, it will help you to remind you that you are in the active video call and that you have not left it.
At the same time that you encounter this situation on your smartphone, the other person or people who are in the video call conversation will be watching everything you do on your smartphone. They will be able to see everything, so you should also be careful with any sensitive or private information that you do not want them to see, as well as conversations that you can access, and so on.
At the moment in which you want to finish and stop showing your screen to the people with whom you are having the conversation through the instant messaging application, you only have to click on the image of the interlucotres camera to enlarge and later , in the basic controls that will appear, tap on stop sharing screen so you stop doing it and show your front camera again. Alternatively, you also have the possibility of being able to hang up to end the call.
In short, it is a function that is very useful especially to teach or show some type of content or problem related to the smartphone, and can be used in areas and with very different purposes. This makes it a very well received feature by users, who thus have an alternative option to receive assistance on the mobile phone, without having to resort to downloading less common applications on smartphones than Facebook Messenger , which is present in the vast majority of mobile devices.
So, if you were unaware of this new function, it is already available in the instant messaging application, so if you need to use it, you will know where you have it at your disposal. We also encourage you to continue visiting Crea Publicidad Online daily to be aware of all the news, tricks, tips ... that you need to know to get the most out of your accounts in the main applications, social networks and platforms that enjoy a most popular in the internet world today. Keep visiting CPO and find out.