You don’t need to pop round to help people fix their Macs any more, thanks to Screen Sharing in OS X. This gives you the power to share items on the screen, or even take control of a remote Mac.

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The capacity to share your screen originally appeared within iChat, though the feature required an AIM, Gmail, Jabber or Yahoo account. Now it is natively available within Messages in OS X Yosemite.

To share the screen both participants must have an Apple ID. Check that you are logged into yours inside System Preferences>iCloud and sign in with your Apple ID. The person you wish to screen share with must also log in. You also need to use the email associated with the Apple ID of the person you wish to see. You need to be running OS X Yosemite or above.

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