Overview of common navigation options and controls

Sidebar

The Sidebar gives you access to the features of RealVNC Connect v8.

It can be collapsed or expanded for better control of the amount of the content displayed on the main screen.

Account Settings

In Account settings you can navigate to RealVNC Portal or sign out of the RealVNC Connect application

Notifications

Notifications icon displays active notifications

Home Page

The Home page provides insights into RealVNC Connect features, quick navigation options, and new features overview

Overview of main features

The Devices section presents the list of devices joined to your team that you can connect to.
You can switch between list and grid views, search for device or select filtering options.

Select a remote device and initiate an outbound connection to it. See Device Access Connections in v8

Connection session toolbar

Once the connection is established you can interact with the remote device with the help of the toolbar.

The toolbar is pinned to the top of the window by default. If unpinned, the toolbar will be displayed as an icon which can be moved around the screen icon as you like. Click on the toolbar icon to access the toolbar options.
You can unpin it and move around the toolbar icon as you like. 

The toolbar provides the following options to control your connection session:

• Enter / exit full screen mode
• Scaling options
• Mute / Unmute sound from remote device
• Choose monitor, only available when you connect to a device with more than 1 monitor - see Working with multiple monitors in RealVNC Connect
• File transfer to exchange files between your local and remote devices, see Transferring Files Between My Device and a Remote Device in v8
• Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to open a menu for accessing security options, managing unresponsive programs through Task Manager, or performing other administrative tasks on the remote device
• Chat to exchange messages with user of the remote device, see Communicating Using Chat in v8
• Screen recording to record a video of the connection session, see Session recording in v8
• Disconnect to terminate current connection session
• Reboot to reboot the remote device (connection will be automatically restored once remote device reboots)
• About this session displays information on your current remote access session. You may be asked for this information if you contact RealVNC Support. Click the Save As button to save the displayed information to a text file.

Settings menus

The Settings menus allows you to manage RealVNC outbound and inbound connectivity settings, view application information, view account settings and diagnostic information.

Outbound Connection Settings

Refer to RealVNC Viewer Parameter Reference as the parameters are similar to the RealVNC Viewer settings of previous versions.

Inbound connection settings

Refer to RealVNC Server Parameter Reference as the parameters are similar to the RealVNC Server settings of previous version