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> I'm pretty sure this isn't true

Lol I'm not lying to you! I almost always hear an end-of-call sigh from the other person that I'm sure they aren't expecting to broadcast because they think they've ended the call, but nothing embarrassing yet!

I'll try to screen-record my next interaction and show you. I think the problem is closing the window shuts down the screen link but not the whole pairing session, but people don't realise they need to separately end the call.




> Lol I'm not lying to you!

Sorry, didn't mean to imply you were :)

> I think the problem is closing the window shuts down the screen link but not the whole pairing session, but people don't realise they need to separately end the call.

Ah hah! This is totally it. Closing the screen share does not end the call (intentionally). I can decide I don't want to see your screen any more, but still want to talk to you. Definitely a debatable design decision, though. It actually used to work the other way.


I wonder if it would be helpful to let this be a user-configurable option? Tuck a checkbox in settings and let the users decide?


They doesn’t really seem like a bug then, it should be possible to close the screen sharing without ending the call. Maybe you want to continue chatting.




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