How to turn off Chrome notifications when sharing your screen

Like video chat, screen sharing is now an essential tool for anyone working or socializing from home. Unfortunately, sharing your device’s screen can be a privacy risk – or just annoying – if you don’t take precautions against them. excessive sharing. To help mitigate this risk, Google is testing a new feature that turns off Chrome notifications while you’re sharing a Chrome window so that your browser cannot air your dirty laundry without warning.

While Google Meet already automatically turns off Chrome notifications, the new Chrome feature works with screen sharing apps like Messenger, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom on desktop and mobile. Turning it on prevents Chrome from sharing notification details with your audience and can help keep your presentations professional and distraction-free.

Instead of turning off notifications at any time, this only mutes them during screen sharing – they aren’t ignored or ignored. After sharing is complete, you’ll be able to see everything you’ve missed on Gmail, Drive, and any third-party websites that send you notifications through Chrome.

Eventually, disabling notifications will be available for all Google accounts, including general users, Google Workspace, and G Suite business users, through the stable Chrome channel, but you can try a first version of Chrome Canary now. Chrome Canary is used to test unfinished features and settings, so it’s prone to stability errors and crashes, but you’ll need to use this version if you want to turn off Chrome notifications during your presentations. Here’s how to try it out:

1. Download Chrome Canary for your device.
2. Open the browser then go to chrome: // flags / # mute-notifications-during-screen-share.
3. To select “Activate” from the drop-down menu.
4. Restart Chrome Canary to apply the changes.

When the setting is enabled, Chrome hides all details of incoming notifications while screen sharing. The notification will still appear on the screen with the Chrome icon, but it will simply say “content is hidden when sharing your screen”. To select “Close” to hide the pop-up. There is also an option for “Display all” if you want to allow display of all notification information. Otherwise, the hidden information is only visible after you stop screen sharing.

If you don’t want to download Chrome Canary but still need a way to turn off notifications, or if you never want to see all Chrome alerts at all: you can turn them off in Chrome settings by going to Settings> Privacy and security> Site settings> Permissions> Notifications.

[Android Police]