# Screen turns black when cursor on INPUT field on android **URL:** \ **Category:** Web Portal\ **Created:** [March 13, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/screen-turns-black-when-cursor-on-input-field-on-android/1314 "2025-03-13T06:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lance.bui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@lance.bui](https://forum.remote.it/u/lance.bui)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/screen-turns-black-when-cursor-on-input-field-on-android/1314/1 "2025-03-13T06:28:29Z")
We are able to remote into an android tablet. WE are able to run apps with no problems. BUt whenever the app switches to a modal screen and focus on an input field. THe screen turns black. Monitoring the logged in device we can still see mouse movement. ON the Web client the screen is black. ---
**Author:** ![bstrech](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.remote.it/bstrech/32/266_2.png) [@bstrech](https://forum.remote.it/u/bstrech)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/screen-turns-black-when-cursor-on-input-field-on-android/1314/2 "2025-04-01T00:43:42Z")
We are investigating the issue and will post an update once we have something to report. ---
**Author:** ![lance.bui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@lance.bui](https://forum.remote.it/u/lance.bui)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/screen-turns-black-when-cursor-on-input-field-on-android/1314/3 "2025-08-01T07:32:13Z")
We concluded and hope that updates will fix. All modal windows that are SECURED such as PIN entry or SENTATIVE data are blacked out. Android obviously have this window element option. Remote.it emulator is honoring the option. Many other emulators such as BLUESTACK , LD, and VMOS do not blackout this modal. Please FIX….this is pertinent when monitoring financials apps which have many secured MODAL. from a competitor solution: ESPER For Android 15 devices, you may encounter a black screen when sensitive information appears on the screen, such as password input areas. Once the device user navigates away from these screens, the viewer should continue to show the screen. Consult your application developer about where these types of screens appear. You may need to enable “disable screen share protection” in [Developer Options](https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options) to use Remote Viewer for certain applications. ---
**Author:** ![bstrech](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.remote.it/bstrech/32/266_2.png) [@bstrech](https://forum.remote.it/u/bstrech)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/screen-turns-black-when-cursor-on-input-field-on-android/1314/4 "2025-08-01T17:10:11Z")
This looks to be the same issue as the post [Blacked out MODAL windows for financial apps](https://forum.remote.it/t/blacked-out-modal-windows-for-financial-apps/1398) Am I correct? ---
**Author:** ![lance.bui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@lance.bui](https://forum.remote.it/u/lance.bui)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/screen-turns-black-when-cursor-on-input-field-on-android/1314/5 "2025-08-01T20:08:45Z")
Yes. We saw no progress or fixes So we trying to find new solutions VNC server seems to have same issues But the blackscreen problems might be A client side fix. ---
**Author:** ![bstrech](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.remote.it/bstrech/32/266_2.png) [@bstrech](https://forum.remote.it/u/bstrech)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/screen-turns-black-when-cursor-on-input-field-on-android/1314/6 "2025-08-04T23:41:23Z")
This is an Android 15 security feature where the system will automatically protect windows containing passwords from appearing in a screen recording or casting. There are workarounds to set some security settings on the device, but that is not advisable.