For some reason, the microphone use indicator lights up orange and is stuck to on even when there are no apps using the microphone. The only way I found to fix this is to reboot the computer. Does anybody else have this issue because it seems a little bit strange. I searched the activity monitor for "zoom" and nothing shows up and restarting finder didn't work either. This issue starts when I use zoom, then end a meeting and quit zoom and the microphone indicator is still lit up. Even launching zoom then using the mic test utility causes this issue. I have a photo of this issue below. I can confirm zoom is closed and isn't present in activity monitor.
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Orange microphone indicator get's stuck
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Zoom has been known to do this in the past, but I thought that they had fixed it.
Are your sure that your Zoom app is updated to the current version? What MacOS version are you on?
Are your sure that your Zoom app is updated to the current version? What MacOS version are you on?
It does sound like a bug.
Perhaps you can use Activity Monitor to end the "coreaudiod" process (it will reset). Another way to do that is with Terminal:
If that works you won't have to restart.
Perhaps you can use Activity Monitor to end the "coreaudiod" process (it will reset). Another way to do that is with Terminal:
Code:
sudo killall coreaudiodIf that works you won't have to restart.
Possible solution:
“OverSight monitors a mac's mic and webcam, alerting the user when the internal mic is activated, or whenever a process accesses the webcam.” https://objective-see.org/products/oversight.html
I have a perpetual orange dot in the corner of my second monitor lately. Even when the menubar shows that nothing is using the mic or webcam.
The other day my computer said Google Chrome was using my mic, but I had 9 or 10 windows open, each holding between 3 and 10 tabs so I don't have a clue as to which website was the culprit.
The other day my computer said Google Chrome was using my mic, but I had 9 or 10 windows open, each holding between 3 and 10 tabs so I don't have a clue as to which website was the culprit.
Turns out my issue was the fact that SIP was disabled and turning it back on fixed it. Not sure what the real reason why it broke is but at least mine is working now because before I couldn't even approve chrome microphone privileges before.