Microsoft Teams will let hosts block screenshots and recordings soon
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Recording during a remote meeting is sometimes necessary, sometimes less than ideal. But if you specifically want to prevent someone else from taking screenshots or recording video, you don’t have a lot of options. Teams will give you that option soon, according to a recent roadmap for Microsoft’s meeting tool.
“Prevent Screen Capture” is what Microsoft is calling the feature, added to the roadmap last week and currently slated for a July 2025 rollout. According to the post (spotted by BleepingComputer), it’ll let meeting organizers use a Prevent Screen Capture toggle in the Enhanced Meeting Protection tool to turn the screen black if you try to take a screenshot, on either desktop or mobile. If you join in from an unsupported platform with this feature enabled, you won’t have access to video.
It’s a bit of a niche use case. I mean, when you’re sharing a PowerPoint slide or something similar with people, you generally want them to retain the information. But for info that’s secret or otherwise under wraps, I can see how this would be useful.
The feature is marked for general availability and worldwide release, so with any luck you should see the Prevent Screen Capture option in Teams sometime in 2025 at the latest.
Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer, PCWorld
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