diff --git a/src/components/views/beacon/LeftPanelLiveShareWarning.tsx b/src/components/views/beacon/LeftPanelLiveShareWarning.tsx
index 43b00a8fa76..b93d8de1ae7 100644
--- a/src/components/views/beacon/LeftPanelLiveShareWarning.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/beacon/LeftPanelLiveShareWarning.tsx
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ limitations under the License.
 */
 
 import classNames from 'classnames';
-import React from 'react';
-import { BeaconIdentifier, Room } from 'matrix-js-sdk/src/matrix';
+import React, { useEffect } from 'react';
+import { Beacon, BeaconIdentifier, Room } from 'matrix-js-sdk/src/matrix';
 
 import { useEventEmitterState } from '../../../hooks/useEventEmitter';
 import { _t } from '../../../languageHandler';
@@ -61,6 +61,25 @@ const getLabel = (hasStoppingErrors: boolean, hasLocationErrors: boolean): strin
     return _t('You are sharing your live location');
 };
 
+const useLivenessMonitor = (liveBeaconIds: BeaconIdentifier[], beacons: Map<BeaconIdentifier, Beacon>): void => {
+    useEffect(() => {
+        // chromium sets the minimum timer interval to 1000ms
+        // for inactive tabs
+        // refresh beacon monitors when the tab becomes active again
+        const onPageVisibilityChanged = () => {
+            if (document.visibilityState === 'visible') {
+                liveBeaconIds.map(identifier => beacons.get(identifier)?.monitorLiveness());
+            }
+        };
+        if (liveBeaconIds.length) {
+            document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", onPageVisibilityChanged);
+        }
+        () => {
+            document.removeEventListener("visibilitychange", onPageVisibilityChanged);
+        };
+    }, [liveBeaconIds, beacons]);
+};
+
 const LeftPanelLiveShareWarning: React.FC<Props> = ({ isMinimized }) => {
     const isMonitoringLiveLocation = useEventEmitterState(
         OwnBeaconStore.instance,
@@ -91,6 +110,8 @@ const LeftPanelLiveShareWarning: React.FC<Props> = ({ isMinimized }) => {
     const hasLocationPublishErrors = !!beaconIdsWithLocationPublishError.length;
     const hasStoppingErrors = !!beaconIdsWithStoppingError.length;
 
+    useLivenessMonitor(liveBeaconIds, OwnBeaconStore.instance.beacons);
+
     if (!isMonitoringLiveLocation) {
         return null;
     }
diff --git a/test/components/views/beacon/LeftPanelLiveShareWarning-test.tsx b/test/components/views/beacon/LeftPanelLiveShareWarning-test.tsx
index d02f4d0c3d4..a05fbf348f7 100644
--- a/test/components/views/beacon/LeftPanelLiveShareWarning-test.tsx
+++ b/test/components/views/beacon/LeftPanelLiveShareWarning-test.tsx
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ jest.mock('../../../../src/stores/OwnBeaconStore', () => {
         public getBeaconById = jest.fn();
         public getLiveBeaconIds = jest.fn().mockReturnValue([]);
         public readonly beaconUpdateErrors = new Map<BeaconIdentifier, Error>();
+        public readonly beacons = new Map<BeaconIdentifier, Beacon>();
     }
     return {
         // @ts-ignore
@@ -103,6 +104,10 @@ describe('<LeftPanelLiveShareWarning />', () => {
             mocked(OwnBeaconStore.instance).getLiveBeaconIds.mockReturnValue([beacon2.identifier, beacon1.identifier]);
         });
 
+        afterAll(() => {
+            jest.spyOn(document, 'addEventListener').mockRestore();
+        });
+
         it('renders correctly when not minimized', () => {
             const component = getComponent();
             expect(component).toMatchSnapshot();
@@ -195,6 +200,24 @@ describe('<LeftPanelLiveShareWarning />', () => {
             expect(component.html()).toBe(null);
         });
 
+        it('refreshes beacon liveness monitors when pagevisibilty changes to visible', () => {
+            OwnBeaconStore.instance.beacons.set(beacon1.identifier, beacon1);
+            OwnBeaconStore.instance.beacons.set(beacon2.identifier, beacon2);
+            const beacon1MonitorSpy = jest.spyOn(beacon1, 'monitorLiveness');
+            const beacon2MonitorSpy = jest.spyOn(beacon1, 'monitorLiveness');
+
+            jest.spyOn(document, 'addEventListener').mockImplementation(
+                (_e, listener) => (listener as EventListener)(new Event('')),
+            );
+
+            expect(beacon1MonitorSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+            getComponent();
+
+            expect(beacon1MonitorSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
+            expect(beacon2MonitorSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
+        });
+
         describe('stopping errors', () => {
             it('renders stopping error', () => {
                 OwnBeaconStore.instance.beaconUpdateErrors.set(beacon2.identifier, new Error('error'));