Live Guild Watch / field guide

Their streams. Your view.

Watch multiple Shout streams and choose Spotlight, Tiles, or a freeform Canvas. Arrange your view without changing anyone else’s screen.

4-minute readWeb & desktopUpdated 6 October 2026
01

Open the live shares.

Find a voice room with live streams in the guild map. Choose its Watch button, then select Watch streams or a live share in the room’s preview.

The Your view panel lists the available shares and the layout choices. This is where you decide what to watch.

Shout Live Guild Watch showing multiple streams with the Your view controls
Open the live shares, then use the personal controls beside the watch area.
02

Match the layout to the moment.

One main perspective

Spotlight

Give a selected share the main stage. Useful when you want to follow one player closely.

The whole group

Tiles

Let Shout arrange your selected shares together. A quick way to keep several perspectives in view.

Arrange it yourself

Canvas

Move and resize the selected shares to fit your screen and the part you play.

A selected demonstration gameplay stream in Shout Spotlight mode
Spotlight gives one perspective the main stage. Choose another share in Your view to switch focus.
03

Build your personal Canvas.

  1. Choose Canvas in the Your view controls.
  2. Drag a stream to reposition it. Use its lower-right resize handle to change its size.
  3. For a quick starting point, choose Even, Left Focus, or Top Focus in Canvas tools.
  4. Keep the views that matter to your role in the easiest places to see. Choose Tiles whenever you want the automatic layout again.
Shout Canvas showing the Even, Left Focus and Top Focus arrangement controls
Canvas tools give you a starting arrangement; drag and resize individual shares from there.
04

Show the shares you need.

Use the eye control on a share in Your view to hide it. To bring it back, choose the hidden share’s watch control, labeled Watch [name]’s stream.

Hiding a share stops showing it in your personal arrangement. It does not end the broadcaster’s stream for the rest of the room.

Shout Canvas with one demonstration stream hidden from the personal view
You can remove a perspective from your view and restore it from the same stream list.
05

Keep the view useful.

I do not see Spotlight, Tiles, or Canvas.

Open a live share from the voice room first. The layout controls appear with the watch view when shares are available. A room without active shares has no streams to arrange.

A stream disappeared from my view.

Check the share in Your view. If it is hidden, choose its watch control to restore it. If the broadcaster stopped sharing or left, there is no live share to restore.

Can someone else change my arrangement?

The layout controls are personal. Other viewers choose their own layout. The shares available to everyone can still change as people start or stop broadcasting.

Several streams are too much for my device.

Try Spotlight or hide shares you do not need. Stream playback also depends on the source stream, your connection, and your device. The demonstration footage illustrates the controls; it is not a performance benchmark.

Pictures show Shout’s real interface with a demonstration guild and profile. Demo settings use “Apply preview” and simulate device tests; your signed-in account uses its live settings. Controls can vary with client version and permissions.

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