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Slack Mobile App Overheats During High-Resolution Screen-Sharing Calls

Slack's mobile client fails to throttle rendering when receiving high-resolution screen shares, causing device overheating. This suggests inadequate adaptive quality controls for mobile hardware constraints. Users in mobile-first workflows are effectively excluded from screen-sharing calls.

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