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How to share your phone screen in a video meeting from iPhone or Android (2026)

In the InterMIND iOS and Android apps you share the phone's screen the way a laptop shares its display: start sharing in the app, grant the system's screen-capture permission, and the room sees your phone as the main display. On the receiving side a shared screen can be pinched to zoom and turned to landscape, and the laser pointer someone draws on a laptop lands on your phone in the same place. What a phone can and cannot do in a share, what stays after the call — and, quoted from their documentation, what Google Meet and Microsoft Teams state about sharing from the phone app.

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  • Start sharing, allow capture, done. In the iOS or Android app, start sharing and confirm the system's screen-capture permission; the room sees your phone as the main display.
  • The apps share, the mobile browser joins. On the receiving side a phone pinches to zoom, turns to landscape and sees the presenter's laser pointer in the same place.
  • InterMIND keeps the whole meeting in each member's language, what you say over the share included. Guests join free by link, no account; you pay only for active members.
How to share your phone screen in a video meeting from iPhone or Android (2026)

How to share your phone screen in a video meeting from iPhone or Android (2026)

If you searched "share iPhone screen in a meeting" or "screen share from phone", the short answer for InterMIND is: in the iOS or Android app, start sharing, allow the system's screen capture, and the room sees your phone screen as the main display — the same way a laptop share works. This guide is the rest: the steps on each platform, what the others see, what a phone can and cannot do while sharing, what a phone does when someone else shares, and — quoted from Google's and Microsoft's help pages, checked September 2026 — what Meet and Teams state about the phone app.

Share the phone screen

  1. Join the meeting in the app — the InterMIND app for iOS (App Store) or Android (Google Play or Samsung Galaxy Store, or Huawei AppGallery on phones without Google services; Android 8 or later). Sharing the phone's screen is a feature of the apps; the mobile browser joins the meeting.
  2. Start sharing from the meeting controls.
  3. Allow screen capture. Android asks for its screen-capture permission; iOS asks to start the screen broadcast. Confirm, and the share begins.
  4. Stop from the same control, or from the system's own indicator, and your camera is back.

The room sees your phone screen as the main display; your camera moves to a small tile, exactly as with a laptop share. Everything you show — a document, a photo, an app — is seen by every participant, in every language in the room, because what you say over it is translated for each of them as you speak.

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What a phone does when someone else shares

  • Pinch to zoom. A shared screen on a phone can be pinched to zoom into the part you need, and viewed in landscape.
  • The laser pointer lands on you. When a presenter on a laptop draws the pointer, the trail is stored relative to the shared video, not to their monitor, so it lands on the same spot on your phone. Drawing the pointer yourself is a web and desktop feature today.
  • Presenter modes follow you. If the presenter picked Side by side, a narrow phone screen moves their camera under the content instead of squeezing it.

What stays after the call

The share itself disappears the moment it stops. What was said over it does not: after every transcribed InterMIND meeting, the signed-in participants get the recap — the summary and the full transcript — and each reads the summary in their own language. A moderator can also start a server recording into the team's storage; the phone app joins the meeting that is being recorded like any other participant.

Where the phone apps stop

The InterMIND apps are optional — the meeting itself is identical in the browser and in the apps. What the apps add is around the meeting window: a call that survives switching apps (a foreground service on the phone), push notifications, sharing into InterMIND from other apps, and the phone screen share described here. The full comparison is in the apps documentation.

What Google Meet and Microsoft Teams state about the phone app

Two documented maps, quoted, with the check date. Nothing here is an evaluation.

Google MeetMicrosoft TeamsInterMIND
Sharing from the phone appThe presenting help page carries "Android" and "iPhone & iPad" tabs; the documented steps on it are the computer onesMobile sharing documented: "Share PowerPoint, Share photo, Share video, Share screen, Share Whiteboard"iOS and Android apps share the phone screen
Audio with the share"If you present a Chrome tab, it shares that tab's audio by default" (computer)"Select Share audio to stream audio from your device" (computer)A browser tab brings its audio (computer); the phone shares its screen
Pointing at the contentLaser pointer not mentioned; annotation tools documentedLaser pointer not mentioned; "Select Annotate" documentedThe presenter's laser pointer lands on the phone in the same place

The rows are drawn from the two help pages listed in the footer. "Not mentioned" means the page did not mention it at check time, not that the product lacks it.

FAQ

Can I share my iPhone screen in an InterMIND meeting? Yes, from the iOS app: start sharing in the meeting and confirm the system's broadcast sheet. The room sees your phone screen as the main display.

Can I share my Android screen? Yes, from the Android app, using Android's screen-capture permission. Files and text can also be shared into a channel from any Android app through the share sheet — that is a different feature, described in the guide to sharing from any app.

Can I share my screen from the phone's browser? Joining works in the mobile browser; sharing the phone's screen is a feature of the iOS and Android apps.

Can I zoom into a screen someone else shares? Yes. Pinch to zoom on the phone, and turn it to landscape for a wider view.

Does the laser pointer work on a phone? You see everyone else's trails live, in the right place for your screen size. Drawing the pointer is a web and desktop feature today.

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Sources: Google Meet Help — Present during a video meeting, Microsoft Support — Present content in Microsoft Teams meetings. Vendors change their apps and documentation over time; check their pages for the current state. All facts checked September 2026.

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