How Interview Pilot stays hidden

On Mac and Windows, Interview Pilot is designed to stay out of your screen shares and screen recordings, so the people watching see your screen without it. It can’t hide from everything, so run a quick test share before an important interview.

What Interview Pilot does on your computer

• Stays out of screen shares and recordings. Its windows are designed to be left out when your meeting app or another app captures your screen.
• No Dock or taskbar icon. On a Mac, Interview Pilot has no Dock or menu bar icon. On Windows, it has no taskbar button once you’re signed in, and it doesn’t appear when you press AltTab. Before you sign in, the Windows window has a normal taskbar button.
• Doesn’t take focus. Showing Interview Pilot with its shortcut, or clicking the buttons on its interview panels, leaves your meeting app in front. The workspace works like a normal window, so you can type in it.
• Floats above other windows. It stays on top of your meeting app. On a Mac, it also stays above full-screen apps and appears on every desktop.
• Hides with one shortcut. Press ⌘B on a Mac or CtrlB on Windows to hide it, and again to show it. More about showing and hiding.

What it can’t control

Interview Pilot can only keep its own windows out of a screen capture. It can’t hide:

• Your screen itself. Anyone in the room, or a camera or another device pointed at your screen, sees everything on it.
• Other windows. Permission prompts from macOS or Windows, your browser, notifications and files you open aren’t part of Interview Pilot, so they show up in a share as usual. Finish setting up before the interview starts.
• Zoom on a Mac in its default mode. In Automatic capture mode, Zoom can include Interview Pilot in your share. Switch Zoom to Advanced capture.

Meeting apps change how they capture your screen from time to time, and Interview Pilot’s protection is updated as they do. A test share tells you what the interviewer will see with the app you’ll actually use.

On Windows: “Screen-share protection needs attention”

If Windows doesn’t confirm that Interview Pilot is protected, a banner appears below the control bar.

Screen-share protection needs attention

Interview Pilot is retrying invisibility automatically.

Retry

The banner goes away as soon as protection is back. Until then, hide Interview Pilot with CtrlB before you share your screen. If the banner doesn’t go away, see Interview Pilot shows up in my screen share.

iPhone and Android

The phone apps run on your phone, a separate device. When you share your computer’s screen, your phone isn’t part of the share. Get the iPhone and Android apps.

Test before an important interview

A two-minute test with a second device shows you exactly what the interviewer sees, and checks that Copilot hears them. Here’s how to test.