Present a deck from your phone

If you share a designed slide deck, you can run the talk from your phone while everyone who has the link follows along on their own screen. You do not need any extra app.

Present a deck#

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   Add speaker notes (optional). Ask the agent to write notes for each slide when it makes the deck.

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   Press Present. Open Shares, select the deck and press Present in its detail pane. A window shows a QR code and a Copy link button.

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   Scan the QR code with your phone. The phone opens on a page marked Rehearsing with the slide number and title, your notes in large type, the next slide's title, a timer and big Previous and Next buttons. Swipe works too.

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   Rehearse. While you are rehearsing, nothing you do reaches the audience.

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   Press Start presenting. From now on the audience follows the slide on your screen.

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   Stop. When you are done, press Stop presenting in the Present window or in the detail pane, and the link stops working at once.

What the audience sees#

People with the link see a small Following the presenter tag with a switch to stop following whenever they like, and a Follow the presenter choice in the Reader menu to start again (see Read a shared page your way). A page that is already open catches up on its next live check (every 30 seconds to 5 minutes), and anyone who opens the link later lands on your current slide.

They never see your notes. Notes are never in the shared page, its data or the downloadable source; only the presenter page can show them.

When does the talk end?#

The talk ends when you press Stop presenting, when the 12-hour link runs out, or 2 hours after your phone's presenter page was closed or hidden. While that page is open and showing, it checks in every 10 minutes by itself, so a long talk never times out between taps.