Privacy Curtain covers your local screen during a remote session, preventing anyone near the host Mac from seeing what you are doing.
A quick look at Privacy Curtain
Three curtain styles: Choose between Workbench, Frost, or Black to suit your preference.
Optional display dimming: Lower the backlight to 30% while curtained to save energy.
Block local input: Turn on input blocking if you don’t want anyone to interrupt your session, even if they have access to your computer
How to enable Privacy Curtain
Privacy Curtain can be toggled in the Workbench Settings on the host Mac; the Mac you will be connecting to remotely.
Open the Workbench on your host Mac
Click "..." in the top right of the Workbench app
Open "Workbench Settings"
Select "Privacy Curtain" in the Workbench Settings
Toggle on "Hide my screen while sharing"
🖌️Privacy Curtain Styles
🖌️Privacy Curtain Styles
There are currently three styles available for the Privacy Curtain, and each provides similar coverage.
Black
Frost
Workbench
How to block local input
Privacy Curtain is a great solution to ensure the visual data of your Workbench session remains secure. However, you can further secure your remote session by blocking any input from the local host device while Workbench is connected.
Enable this feature by toggling Block Local input while curtained.
⚙️ Need to override the local input block? There is an additional toggle to enable a shortcut to override the block, and stop the remote session on the host device.
How to dim the display
To extend the life of your host device's display during remote sessions, Workbench can automatically dim the display to 30% brightness when Privacy Curtain is activated.
Enable display dimming in the Workbench Privacy Curtain settings by toggling Dim display while curtained.
