How to share screen in a video call with Google Duo

Throughout the past year, Google Duo became an especially popular app. Confinement in countries like Spain has made more and more users install the calls and video calls app on their phones. In addition, improvements such as increasing the number of participants in calls or being able to use it without a phone number have helped its popularity.

Google continues to introduce improvements in the application, in its video calls in this case. Since the ability to share the screen during your video calls on Google Duo. A function that has been progressively deploying among users these past weeks and that you can now enjoy in the app.

You can now use Google Duo without giving your phone number

Google Duo has been updated to allow talking to people using our email instead of the phone number.

Share screen in your video calls on Google Duo

As the name indicates, this function in the application will allow you to show the other person or people what you see on the mobile screen during that call. These types of functions can be useful if you need to show the steps to perform a certain task for example or if you have a problem on your mobile and want to show it to the other person. Many call applications already have this function and it is now Google’s next to join. To use it, follow these steps:

1. Open Google Duo.
2. Make a video call.
3. During this call, go to the app menu, clicking on the three vertical dots.
4. Swipe to the right.
5. Select the Screen Sharing option.
6. Click on Start now.
7. The screen is to be shared with the other person.
8. To finish sharing the call, press the icon on the screen to stop sharing.

At the end of last year the deployment of it began.Since January all users of the application should already have this screen sharing function in their accounts. You will only have to make sure that you have Google Duo updated to its most recent version, where you will surely be able to use this function as normal.

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