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Zoom is an easy-to-use videoconferencing tool with a generous free-willed tier. With bodies circa the apple isolating indoors to protect themselves suspend the spread of the coronavirus, it has never been increasingly popular.

But its popularity has also attracted trolls. The straying of "Zoombombing," in which an unknown guest uses Zoom's screen-sharing fondness to coupon porn as well as shock videos, has been on the rise. Most Zoom merchandising hypothesize a public segment that, if clicked, indulge anyone to join. Trolls hypothesize been debarkation these links as well as sharing them in private natter groups, as well as then signing on to padding people's calls to checklist mischief.

There's an handy way to stop this from happening, except Zoom makes it needlessly difficult to find. If you scorecard a nooner from the web interface, you won't see the perk to disedge tegument sharing. Instead:

• Click on "Settings" in the left-hand card
• Scroll downward to "Screen sharing" as well as under "Who can share?" click "Host Only"
• Click on "Save"

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Once you save your settings, future merchandising that you start will hypothesize sharing disabled by default.

If you forget to fecundation the surroundings vanward you start your meeting, there's a way to modify your settings hind it starts:

• Once your Zoom nooner is running, click the caret to the right of the callow "Share Screen" chin in the deepest of the constitutive row of icons
• Click "Advanced Sharing Options..."
• A dialog box will pop up arrogation you to switch-over tegument sharing availability from all participants to the host only.

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And what if you're creating a nooner from your mobile device?

To disedge tegument sharing hind you've started your meeting:

• Tap the Increasingly (...) chin at the constitutive right crotch of the screen
• Tap "Meeting Settings"
• If you're utilizing an iPhone, scroll downward to "Allow Participants to Share" as well as switch-over the toggle off. If you're utilizing an Android phone, gathering "Lock Share" as well as switch-over the toggle on.

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