Privacy Controls
Open Settings → Privacy for overlay protection, app presence, click-through interaction, and analytics sharing.
Available Controls
Section titled “Available Controls”| Control | What it changes |
|---|---|
| Protect overlay from screen capture | Helps exclude ExtraBrain from screenshots, recordings, and screen sharing. Some apps may still capture it. |
| Hide app icon | Hides the ExtraBrain menu-bar icon. Check the displayed recovery shortcut first. |
| Help us improve ExtraBrain by sharing analytics events | Controls future uploads of AI prompts, responses, tool payloads, and included screenshots to ExtraBrain’s AWS observability service. Audio is excluded. |
Quick Settings also exposes privacy controls. Test capture protection with your meeting or recording app; do not assume it guarantees invisibility.
Click-Through And Hidden Windows
Section titled “Click-Through And Hidden Windows”Use Settings → Privacy → Overlay Interaction for click-through, hover activation, and hover delay. Click-through passes mouse clicks to the app underneath; it does not hide the window or change provider data flow.
If you cannot interact with the overlay, use your configured Toggle Click-Through shortcut. If the window is hidden, use Toggle Window Visibility. Inspect the current bindings in Shortcuts rather than assuming a default is still assigned.
Before A Sensitive Session
Section titled “Before A Sensitive Session”Review the primary and backup AI providers, transcription choice, screenshot-before-analysis setting, and analytics preference. Disable analytics sharing if you do not want future AI-content telemetry uploads. Cloud requests still send the context needed for the provider you use.
Session Automation can apply privacy settings at session start. Check those actions if a setting seems to change when you begin recording. Read data handling for each data path.