Share your screen in the studio

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Start a screen share to show participants content from your computer or mobile phone and record it as a separate track.

Step by step

• Share your screen from browser and the macOS desktop app

  If you are using a Mac and have not shared your browser's screen before, enable screen sharing in System Settings, then quit and reopen the browser. Do this before you start recording.

  1. Using a supported browser or the Mac app, join a Riverside studio.
  2. At the bottom of the screen, click Share and choose Screen.
  3. In the pop-up, choose the source: an individual browser tab, a specific window, or the entire screen.
     For the highest resolution, choose entire screen. Sharing a browser tab or window records at that tab or window's size.
  4. To include sound, toggle on Also share tab audio from the system screen sharing window.
     Screen share audio is not available when you record using the macOS desktop app.
  5. Click the Share button to confirm.
     On a Mac, you can only share audio from a browser tab. On Windows, you can share audio from a tab or the entire screen.

• Share your screen from the iOS mobile app

  Before you start, update your device to iOS 27 or later and the Riverside app to version 4.21 or later.

  1. Using the Riverside iOS app, join a studio.
  2. At the bottom right of the screen, tap ••• [the three dots].
  3. Tap Share screen.
     Your camera stays on while you share, and your screen records as a separate track.
  4. In the iOS screen sharing window, tap Share entire screen.
     iOS warns that everything on your screen, including notifications, is visible and recorded. To keep notifications private, turn on the Do Not Disturb setting before you share.
  5. To stop sharing, go back to the Riverside app and tap Stop sharing.

• Share your screen from the Android mobile app

  1. Using the Riverside Android app, join a studio.
  2. At the bottom right of the screen, tap ••• [the three dots].
  3. Tap Share screen.
  4. In the Share your screen? window, tap Share screen.
     Android warns that everything on your screen, including notifications, is visible and recorded.
  5. To stop sharing, go back to the Riverside app and tap Stop sharing.
      

Good to know

• For high-quality screen share tracks, share your screen from Chrome, Edge, or the Mac app. 
  • In Safari, screen shares provide a cloud recording over your internet connection only, so the quality can drop or look blurry at times.
• Screen shares recorded in the browser have a maximum resolution of 1920x1080. To record at the full 1080p, share your entire screen on a 16:9 display set to 1920x1080 at 100% scaling.
• The quality of the screen share audio tracks depends on the internet connection of the participant sharing their screen.
• While recording, keep the shared window the same size. Each time its dimensions change, a new screen share track is created at the new size.
• The studio logo is not visible during screen sharing.
• To share a video, use the Media Board for the best results.
• On iOS, screen sharing works in both portrait and landscape orientation.
• On mobile, screen sharing works in both portrait and landscape orientation. Lock the screen to prevent disruption of the shared content.

Learn more

• What is the FPS and resolution of a screen share?
• Download Media Board or screen share tracks
• Disable guests from sharing their screen or presentation in the studio
• Picture-in-picture mode in the studio