I'm using the (near) final release of Mac OS Sonoma. I've been trying to use the Presenter Overlay feature, but it only seems to work in FaceTime. I thought it was also supposed to work in third party video apps like Zoom, Teams, etc. Has anyone else had any success?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.0
Sonoma at this date is beta software, as per the terms of using beta software, we are not allowed to discuss this until the public release of SONOMA. Beta software will have features not present or not working fully, so its pointless discussing prerelease software.
I'm using the final release of Mac OS Sonoma and it still doesn't work. Zoom constantly says: it can't import file because Keynote is not installed, but it is. Is it me or is Apple increasingly moving away from a 'seamless' experience, it's beginning to look a lot like Windows with incomprehensible pop ups and settings that do not seem to work. It only works on FaceTime, hardly a business video conferencing call.
I too am using the final release of Sonoma. One thing to know - this is only to work on a Mac that has an M2 or M2 chip.
AND, I have a 2023 MacBook Air with the M2 chip.. It works IF you use a Powerpoint file. It doesn't work with Keynote - Imagine that!.
Is anyone from Apple monitoring this? What's up with this one?
Now that the final release of macOS Sonoma is out, I want to ask this question again. Does anyone know how to make the Presenter Overlay features work with any video conferencing platform other than FaceTime? I can’t get it to work with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, etc.
Only solution for short term and time sensitive lecture was to resurrect older MacBook with older OS
videos in PowerPoint played as always!
don't they check this basic stuff out before release of new OS
has genuine impact on teaching
OldAndy
Gary, any thoughts now that the final is out?
Thanks, Twagoner. I'm using an M1 MacBook Pro, and Presenter Overlay works - but only in FaceTime. I can test it on one of our M2 machines and see if it works there.
One edit here- “— this is only to work on a Mac that has an M1 or M2 chip. “
Mac OS Sonoma Presenter Overlay - Third Party Video Apps
