# Track user interactions

Track user interactions adds click and navigation context to your captures. It helps others reproduce issues faster.

### What gets captured

When enabled, Screendesk records:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Clicks" %}

* Which elements you clicked (buttons, links, text fields)
* When each click happened
* Which tab it happened in
  {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Navigation" %}

* Which pages you visited (URLs)
* When you navigated to each page
* Page load metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Time to Interactive (TTI)
  {% endtab %}
  {% endtabs %}

### Turn it on or off

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{% stepper %}
{% step %}

### Open Screendesk

Click the Screendesk icon in your browser toolbar.
{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Open settings

Click **Settings** (gear icon).
{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Toggle tracking

Turn **Track user interactions** **On** or **Off**.
{% endstep %}
{% endstepper %}

Changes apply instantly across tabs. No reload needed.

<details>

<summary>Privacy and storage</summary>

{% hint style="info" %}
Screendesk keeps interaction data **locally** in a **2-minute rolling buffer**. It continuously overwrites old events.
{% endhint %}

* Nothing uploads unless you **save and submit** a capture.
* You can turn this off any time.

</details>

<details>

<summary>What changes when it’s off</summary>

* Click and navigation tracking stops immediately.
* The current buffer is cleared.
* Memory usage drops slightly (\~1 MB per tab).

These features still work:

* Screen recordings and screenshots
* Console log capture
* Network request capture
* Instant Replay

</details>

<details>

<summary>When to turn it off</summary>

Turn it off if:

* You prefer not to capture clicks and navigation.
* You’re doing sensitive workflows.
* You’re minimizing memory use on slower machines.
* You don’t need this context for your reports.

</details>

### Default

Track user interactions is **on by default**.


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