Hi, just a heads up - I am able to join other users’ Live Share if I am using Cursor and they are on VS Code, but they’re unable to join mine if I host via Cursor and they’re on VS Code. Tested with me hosting on VS Code and they were able to join fine, so I do think it has to do with Cursor hostin…

Thank you for the report. We’ll have a look.

also having an issue with this except the issue is i cannot host live share at all. it says " Starting collaboration session: Auth token returned by microsoft provider is empty." Not sure if they’re related

Echoing issues here also. Can you please look into it and/or provide instructions on how to do it properly so that we remain in Cursor while joining a Live Share session?

I managed to solve the problem by joining a session after changing the text “visualstudio” in the link to “cursor”

I’m unable to start Live Share on Windows 11. This is from the sidebar button. [image] This is from the bottom bar button. [image]

Try this method: [image] Live Share stopped working after upgrading to Mac Os 15 Sequoia Bug Report Ran into this myself, it doesn’t seem to have to do with macOS, though I did update to 15 as well, but rather the latest version of LiveShare 1.0.5940. If you go to extensi…

Ah… didn’t look there because it specified macOS. Downgrading to 1.0.5936 from 3 months ago works for now on Windows 11 24H2. :+1:

This is an example of one of the main sticking points with Cursor. Being a fork of VSCode instead of a plugin means user always have to wonder if extensions and new features are going to work because Cursor will be playing catch-up all the time.

cursor: command ‘liveshare.start’ not found vs code: working fine macOS 14.4.

Unable to host live share

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deanrie (Dean Rie) October 17, 2024, 6:12pm 7

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Topic		Replies	Views
Microsoft's "Live Share" extension does not work in Cursor Bug Reports	4	8249	June 5, 2025
Sharing Cursor IDE Project Help	12	17539	October 30, 2025
Live Share stopped working after upgrading to Mac Os 15 Sequoia Bug Reports	14	7039	June 19, 2025
Live Share Extension Disapeared in V2 Bug Reports	0	425	October 29, 2025
Unable to join live share session Bug Reports	2	1039	September 27, 2024

Unable to host live share

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