Screen-share privacy
Keep your guidance private with Stealth Mode
Stealth Mode is designed to keep the AI Interview Assistant window outside the shared view during supported screen-sharing and capture configurations. The feature protects the visibility of the application window; it does not change the interview platform, call, or shared content.
Compatibility can vary by operating system, meeting application, capture method, application version, and display setup. Review the tested configurations and known limitations before an important interview.
What Stealth Mode does
On Windows, AI Interview Assistant asks the operating system to exclude its own windows from screen capture: the main window, the always-on-top overlay and the app's dialogs. The windows stay fully visible to you on your display. Screen-sharing and recording software that goes through Windows' own capture is designed to leave them out.
- Keeps the guidance window outside supported screen shares.
- Works at the level of the desktop window, not at the level of the interview call or the meeting application.
- Does not change the content of the interview call or of what you share.
- Is documented by configuration: the matrix below separates what has been tested from what has not.
- The overlay has no taskbar button and does not appear in Alt+Tab.
What Stealth Mode does not do
- It is not a way around proctoring, monitoring, security or endpoint software, and it does not change any interview rule or policy.
- It does not promise that your use of the app cannot be noticed.
- It does not hide the app from Windows, from other software running on your computer or from the list of running programs.
- It does not cover anything outside the computer: a camera pointed at your screen, a capture card or video splitter, or another person looking at your display.
- It does not cover software that reads the screen directly rather than through Windows capture, such as some accessibility, remote-administration and endpoint monitoring tools.
- It does not apply to every screenshot tool and every recording method. A tool that captures the display in a way Windows does not exclude may still record the assistant window.
How to enable and disable it
On Windows there is nothing to switch on: Stealth Mode is applied whenever the app opens one of its windows. In the current version there is no setting to turn it off. If Windows rejects the exclusion setting (for example on an older build), the app falls back to one that shows the window as a blank area in capture instead.
The status line at the bottom of the app's sidebar says "Hidden from screen sharing" when Windows accepted the setting and "Visible in screen sharing" when it refused it. It reports what Windows accepted. It does not test what a particular sharing application shows, and it can say "Hidden" when only the blank-area fallback was accepted.
Supported operating systems
Windows 10 (version 2004 or later) and Windows 11, 64-bit. Stealth Mode is available in the current Windows version. The macOS app is coming soon, and its behavior will be documented after testing: nothing on this page about Windows is assumed to apply to macOS.
Tested meeting applications
Compatibility results are published only after a configuration has been tested against the current production build. Configurations marked "Not yet tested" have not been confirmed as supported or unsupported.
A tested configuration is listed with the evidence behind it: the application and its exact version, the Windows version, the share and capture type, the result (Supported, Partially supported or Not supported) and the date. An application that is not in the tested table has not been verified.
Tested
No configuration has been published as tested yet. A row appears here, with its result and the date, only when it has been tested.
Not yet tested
These scenarios are marked "Not yet tested": they have not been confirmed as supported or unsupported, and this page makes no statement about them.
| Operating system | Operating-system version | Meeting or capture application | Application version | Share type | Capture type | Result | Known limitation | Last tested date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | 10 (version 2004 or later), 11 | None tested yet | — | Full display | Screen sharing | Not yet tested | — | — |
| Windows | 10 (version 2004 or later), 11 | None tested yet | — | Individual window | Screen sharing | Not yet tested | — | — |
| Windows | 10 (version 2004 or later), 11 | None tested yet | — | Full display or window | Screenshot | Not yet tested | — | — |
| Windows | 10 (version 2004 or later), 11 | None tested yet | — | Full display or window | Recording | Not yet tested | — | — |
| Windows | 10 (version 2004 or later), 11 | None tested yet | — | Several monitors | Screen sharing | Not yet tested | — | — |
| Windows | 10 (version 2004 or later), 11 | None tested yet | — | Remote Desktop session | Screen sharing | Not yet tested | — | — |
| Windows | 10 (version 2004 or later), 11 | None tested yet | — | Virtual machine | Screen sharing | Not yet tested | — | — |
| Windows | 10 (version 2004 or later), 11 | None tested yet | — | Full display or window | Third-party capture tool | Not yet tested | — | — |
Behavior by sharing and capture method
Each method below is marked with its status in the matrix. None has been published as tested yet, so the notes describe how the setting works, not a result.
Full-display sharing behavior
Not yet tested. The app asks Windows to leave its windows out of a captured display, so a sharing application that captures through Windows is designed not to include them. What a given application shows when you share an entire display depends on how it captures.
Individual-window sharing behavior
Not yet tested. When an application shares a single window, it normally shares that window rather than the whole display. The same setting applies, and the result still depends on the application's capture method.
Screenshot behavior
Not yet tested. Screenshot tools that capture through Windows are designed to leave the app's windows out; a tool that captures the display in another way may include them.
Recording behavior
Not yet tested. Recording software that captures through Windows is designed to leave the windows out; software that captures differently may record them.
Multiple-monitor behavior
Not yet tested. The windows stay visible on the monitors attached to your computer. Which monitors a sharing application captures, and how, is part of that application's behavior, so test with the monitor layout you will use.
Remote Desktop behavior
Not yet tested. In a remote session, remote-session software captures your display and sends it to another computer. How the app's windows are treated there has not been tested, so no statement is made.
Virtual-machine behavior
Not yet tested. A virtual machine can show or capture a display outside the operating system the app runs in. Behavior with virtual machines has not been tested, so no statement is made.
Third-party capture behavior
Not yet tested. Tools with their own capture drivers, and hardware capture devices, are outside what the Windows setting controls: a capture card or a camera records what is physically on the display.
Known limitations
- Behavior depends on the sharing application and the method it uses, and can also depend on your Windows version, your graphics driver and your display setup.
- Some capture configurations may show the window as a blank area instead of leaving it out entirely.
- The exclusion needs Windows 10 version 2004 or later.
- A result can change when Windows, the app or the sharing application is updated.
- No particular meeting application, Remote Desktop, virtual-machine or multi-monitor setup has been published as tested yet, so this page makes no promise about them.
Last tested date
No test date is published yet, because no configuration has been published as tested. When one is, its row shows the date it was last run. A result from an older version of Windows, the app or a sharing application may not carry over to a newer one, so run a test session in the application you will use before an important call.
Responsible-use reminder
Stealth Mode is a privacy feature for supported screen-sharing configurations. Users remain responsible for following interview rules, employer policies, consent requirements, confidentiality obligations and applicable laws. Read the authorized-use policy before you use the app in a live interview, and see the complete privacy and data-flow explanation for what the app uses to generate guidance.
Troubleshooting
- Open the app and read the status line at the bottom of the sidebar. If it says "Visible in screen sharing", Windows refused the setting: update Windows (version 2004 or later is needed) and restart the app.
- Update your graphics driver and the sharing application, then check again.
- Before an important call, run a test: share your screen with a second device or account you control and look at what it shows.
- If the window appears in a setup you expected to be private, contact support with the application and its version, your Windows version, and the share and capture type. More general help is in troubleshooting.