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Mac screen sharing disconnecting mid-session? Your full storage can be the issue.

24/01/2026

Screenshot showing MacOS storage.
An almost-full storage might be the reason your screen sharing is failing on MacOS.

Some colleagues were having issues while screen sharing on MacOS. After a few minutes of sharing on apps like Slack and Chrome, it would unexpectedly stop. It never happened to me until a few days ago.

The reason? My machine's SSD was almost full. For some reason, screen sharing seems to consume a huge amount of swap memory, even when the machine has enough free RAM available.

Just clean up your storage, free up some space, and everything goes back to normal. I strongly recommend mole for helping on this process.

I've reported the issue and hope it gets fixed in a future version of the operating system.

Credits to my coworker Gilliardi who pointed me to this fix.

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