Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe there's a way to toggle off (or on) webcam access for your entire system, i.e. for all apps. Instead, I believe you have to do it app by app in "System Settings > Privacy & Security > Camera". Is there a script that can do this for a specified ap…

I kinda forgot about this thread. Are you willing to take a risk and modify that setting in your defaults to see if it solves your problem? I can't guarantee 100% that it will work, and I can't even guarantee 100% that you won't trash your system. If I recall correctly, it's quite easy to do this, …

[image] Airy: I kinda forgot about this thread. Are you willing to take a risk and modify that setting in your defaults to see if it solves your problem? I can't guarantee 100% that it will work, and I can't even guarantee 100% that you won't trash your system. If I recall correctly, it's quite…

I'll show you the code I used for another configuration entry. If you like it, you can adapt it to your situation (and I will help you make the change!) We will need to make a small change or two to make it work for your situation. Here's what I did.... [image] Notice how this macro was designed t…

And here is what I think you will need to enter yourself... bear in mind that I cannot test this because I don't have a camera. [image] The text strings you need are: defaults read com.apple.controlcenter "NSStatusItem Visible AudioVideoModule" defaults write com.apple.controlcenter "NSStatusI…

[image] alexcr: Or is the only option to mess around with system defaults? "Messing around with system defaults" is literally the only way to modify that value, and that's exactly what the "System Settings" app written by Apple does. If you use some KM macro using Find Image, you're still mod…

Sure! Why not! If I had thought of that, I would have mentioned it, but I didn't. I don't use the Button action very often, because for it to work the app has to support AppleScript access, which System Settings does. You might want to inform the user of the change. Is that just a toggle macro? It…

[image] Airy: You might want to inform the user of the change. Is that just a toggle macro? It looks like it only toggles. If you need absolute settings, you may need to modify this. Yeah, instead of a toggle, the ideal would be to have one macro to turn on (or, if already turned on, then le…

[image] alexcr: Is that what you mean by "absolute"? Yes. You understood me. [image] alexcr: But I'm not sure how you'd tweak the macro I shared to do that. You don't necessarily need two macros. I suppose you could pass a parameter to the macro with a "1" or "0". Or make your macro t…

[image] Airy: You don't necessarily need two macros. I suppose you could pass a parameter to the macro with a "1" or "0". Or make your macro triggered as a subroutine. And there may even be more choices than that. Right, but I guess what I mean is that in order to take an absolute approach, y…

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Script to toggle off and on webcam access for apps in System Settings?

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alexcr November 6, 2023, 10:32am 20

It's not as instantaneous as a script would be, but here's a macro that seems to get the job done.

What do you think, @Airy ?

Script to toggle off and on webcam access for apps in System Settings?

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