How to Blur Sensitive Boards in Miro During Screen Sharing (Client Names, Strategy & the Dashboard)

To hide sensitive content in Miro on a screen share, blur the fixed dashboard elements — your boards list, board names, collaborator avatars and comments — directly in the page before you present, and lean on the panic hotkey (Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ H) once you're moving around the canvas. Miro is an infinite canvas that pans and zooms, so a box blur is anchored to a screen region, not to the sticky note beneath it: it's reliable for panels that don't move, less so for canvas content you'll scroll past.

This works because BlurFirst paints the blur into the web page as real pixels rather than overlaying your monitor, so it survives Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Loom, OBS and screenshots of the shared feed. Everything stays local — the only network request BlurFirst makes is a license check. Start blurring with Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ Y.

What Miro exposes during a screen share

• Client names and unreleased strategy on sticky notes and frames — the actual content of a workshop: named accounts, roadmap bets, pricing experiments and org charts written across sticky notes and frames.
• Board names in your dashboard — the boards grid on your Miro home lists every project by name, so "Acme rebrand — confidential" is readable before you even open a board.
• Collaborator avatars and names — the presence cursors and the avatar stack at the top-right show who is on the board, quietly revealing who's involved in the work.
• Comments — the comments panel and pinned comment bubbles carry reviewer names and blunt internal feedback meant for the team.
• Other boards in the thumbnail grid — the dashboard thumbnails render tiny previews of other boards, including client logos and layouts you didn't intend to show.

How to blur Miro before you present

Split the job in two: lock down the fixed panels with precise blurs, and handle the moving canvas with the panic hotkey. Press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ Y to open the control bar.

1. 1

   Blur the dashboard first

   On your Miro home, element-blur individual board-name labels and drag a region box over the thumbnail grid so other boards' previews and client logos are hidden. These panels don't move, so blurs sit exactly where you put them.

2. 2

   Cover collaborators and comments

   Element-blur the avatar stack at the top-right, and open the comments panel and box-blur it as a strip. Element blur suits these fixed side panels because they keep their position on screen.

3. 3

   Handle the canvas with care

   For a frame you'll keep static while you talk, drag a region box over it. But remember the box is pinned to the screen, not the canvas — the moment you pan or zoom, different sticky notes slide under it. So only trust a fixed box when the view won't move.

4. 4

   Use panic while you navigate

   When you need to pan across the board or zoom into a frame, press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ H to blur the whole page instantly, get to the right spot, then reveal. This is far safer than chasing content with a box on a moving canvas.

5. 5

   Share a single tab

   Present just the Miro tab, not the whole window, so the tab strip and board title aren't captured.

Which gesture for which Miro surface

Save a reusable profile for the dashboard

If you demo from Miro often, set the dashboard blurs once. BlurFirst Pro's per-site profiles re-apply your saved boxes — the thumbnail grid, the avatar stack, the comments panel — automatically each time you open Miro, and they persist between sessions and survive the single-page re-renders Miro triggers as you switch views. The profile stores only a CSS selector for each region, never the content inside it.