How to turn off screen sharing on Mac

Stop the current presentation first

If a private window has appeared, return to the meeting’s sharing controls and stop the share before opening more windows. Turning off your camera or muting your microphone does not perform the screen-sharing action.

The labels differ by app, but the goal is the same: end the content stream. After stopping, check the meeting’s sharing status. If the controls are unavailable and you cannot confirm the share has ended, leave the meeting before continuing private work.

• Zoom: sharing toolbar controls
• Google Meet: stop presenting
• Microsoft Teams: presenter controls
• Apple: end FaceTime screen sharing

Which kind of sharing are you turning off?

A meeting presentation, an incoming remote connection and permission to record your display are different things. A permission can remain enabled when no recording is running. The network Screen Sharing switch can be off while you successfully present a window in Meet.

For example, a consultant finishes a Zoom call and sees that Chrome still has recording permission. That permission alone does not establish that Chrome is currently sending a screen share. End the session in the app first, then review which apps should retain access for future use.

Disable Apple’s incoming Screen Sharing service

Open System Settings → General → Sharing and turn off Screen Sharing. Apple documents this as the control that prevents other computers on your network from connecting through that service. It does not turn off every meeting or remote-support app installed on the Mac.

If your Mac is managed and the control is locked, contact the administrator. Other remote-access software has its own access and session settings; review the app actually providing the connection instead of assuming one macOS switch covers all of them.

• Apple: turn Mac Screen Sharing off

Review apps allowed to capture the display

Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording and turn off access for apps you no longer want to capture your screen. The name of this section varies with macOS; older versions call it Screen Recording. Follow any quit-and-reopen instruction macOS displays.

Permission belongs to the app doing the capture. If you use a meeting in Chrome, review Chrome’s access. ScreenVeil needs its own permission to build Privacy Screen; the meeting app needs its own access to share that window. Disabling one does not change the other’s settings.

Use this review for ongoing access decisions. During a live presentation, the app’s Stop sharing control is the clearer first action.

• Apple: control screen and system audio recording access

If someone has remote control

Ending control and ending the visible share may be separate actions. In FaceTime, use the remote-control menu to withdraw control, then Stop Sharing if you also want to stop showing the screen. Ending the call ends both. Other assistance tools have their own controls.

If you did not intend to grant control, stop the session before troubleshooting settings with that person. On an organization-managed Mac, involve your administrator rather than changing managed access policies yourself.

• Apple: manage sharing and remote control in FaceTime

When you are sharing ScreenVeil’s Privacy Screen

Stop sharing in the meeting app before stopping Privacy Screen or changing private-app rules. ScreenVeil’s Cover feed action can cover its output while you prepare a change, but it does not end the meeting share and only affects the Privacy Screen window.

Neither Cover feed nor Stop sharing retracts frames that participants or a recording already received. Once the share has ended, fix the source and check it before sharing again.

• ScreenVeil sharing controls and setup
• Choose the right connection for Internet sharing