Hidden, not covered: how ScreenVeil removes apps from your feed
When you hide an app, it doesn't get a black box or a blur — it's genuinely absent from the shared window.
There's a big difference between covering a window and removing it. Plenty of 'privacy' tools just paint a rectangle over sensitive content — which fails the moment a menu, a tooltip, or a fast redraw peeks out from underneath.
ScreenVeil removes, it doesn't cover
When you mark an app or window Hidden, ScreenVeil composes the shared feed without it using Apple's ScreenCaptureKit. It isn't blurred and it isn't boxed over — it simply isn't part of the capture your audience sees.
Meanwhile the app stays exactly where it is on your Mac: open, focused, fully usable. You keep working; your audience just never sees it.
Why that matters
Because the window is absent rather than obscured, there's no edge to slip past — no half-second flash of a notification, no sliver of a DM at the border. What leaves the feed stays out of the feed.
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