Studio Display camera zoom broken after updating to Tahoe

[CalMin]

Since updating to Tahoe, I’ve had an issue with the Studio Display camera.

Normally, when Center Stage is turned off, I can reposition the image and use the zoom control so my appearance looks the way I want it to. However, since the update, the zoom slider is visible (and moves showing 0.5x etc.) but changing doesn’t seem to do anything. The image just stays fixed, and I can’t adjust the framing as before.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a known bug with Tahoe, or is there a workaround I’m missing?

 

[rcazz]

Happened to me as well. Tried restarting the Mac, but it didn't work. Simply unplugging Studio Display and plugging it back after 1 minute solved the issue.

 

[CalMin]

Happened to me as well. Tried restarting the Mac, but it didn't work. Simply unplugging Studio Display and plugging it back after 1 minute solved the issue.

Amazing! Thanks.

Good old tech support advice "Switch it off and switch it back on again"ˆ. Never fails - I should have thought to try it.🤪

 

[macses1]

Worked on my studio display camera, would have never figured it out on my own!
Thanks!

 

[Coot42]

Happened to me as well. Tried restarting the Mac, but it didn't work. Simply unplugging Studio Display and plugging it back after 1 minute solved the issue.

For me, this only works until I next restart my Mac. Then the camera controls stop working again, until I unplug the Studio Display and plug it back in again. I suppose not the end of the world, but still really annoying and hope it's fixed in 26.1. Is this the same for others?

 

[haralds]

Make sure to file a Feedback report. I know, engineers look at these. I have received multiple responses for different reports, asking for more info or telling me when the issues were fixed.

 

[JonaM]

There's always been a long time bug where the zoom does not work properly on Studio Displays when using 3rd party video apps/browsers, so it may be that's still present in Tahoe.
If you're not using Facetime as your app you have to open Facetime, adjust your zoom with that open and it then applies to any other apps using video

 

[Coot42]

Thank you, but I have this problem with all video apps, including FaceTime. Prior to macOS 26 Tahoe, there was never a problem for me.

 

[rebelo]

Had this same issue here yesterday, Google Meet just couldn't find the camera. I'm still running Tahoe on my MacStudio at home, got back to Sequoia on my macbooks. Now I'm definitely going back to Sequoia on the MacStudio as well.

 

[Station Grey]

I've had the same since the update. Tried recycling power to the monitor a couple of times, as well as restarting the Mac, but didn't help.

Sometimes it works for a bit, but generally not at all. The 're-centre' generally works, but chooses fairly random zoom settings and is often ridiculously wide, and as you can't then change it afterwards it's a bit of a lottery to press it. Whenever I start a call the zoom setting can be pretty much anything. It's very annoying, and very poor QA.

 

[Coot42]

For me, this only works until I next restart my Mac. Then the camera controls stop working again, until I unplug the Studio Display and plug it back in again. I suppose not the end of the world, but still really annoying and hope it's fixed in 26.1. Is this the same for others?

Unfortunately not fixed for me with 26.1

 

[Station Grey]

Update worked for me, finally, but do note that it required a monitor restart too... didn't make any difference doing the Mac update alone, UNTIL I'd powered off the monitor properly.


Since then it appears to be working flawlessly, for the first time since the 26 update.

 

[Coot42]

Update worked for me, finally, but do note that it required a monitor restart too... didn't make any difference doing the Mac update alone, UNTIL I'd powered off the monitor properly.


Since then it appears to be working flawlessly, for the first time since the 26 update.

Just to clarify does it still work after you then restart the Mac? For me, a monitor restart only fixes it until the next time I restart the Mac and then the problem returns until I restart the monitor again.

 

[Station Grey]

Just to clarify does it still work after you then restart the Mac? For me, a monitor restart only fixes it until the next time I restart the Mac and then the problem returns until I restart the monitor again.

TBH I've not tried yet... I'm hopeful because Mac or monitor restarts never made any difference to me before, so my assumption is that it's fixed – but now I'm scared to try

 

[Coot42]

TBH I've not tried yet... I'm hopeful because Mac or monitor restarts never made any difference to me before, so my assumption is that it's fixed – but now I'm scared to try

Yeah, it's a weird one and I've not seen a problem like this before! It's not that I restart my Mac so often that having to also then restart the monitor is a huge deal, but it is kind of annoying. Wasn't an issue pre OS26.

 

[Station Grey]

Yeah, it's a weird one and I've not seen a problem like this before! It's not that I restart my Mac so often that having to also then restart the monitor is a huge deal, but it is kind of annoying. Wasn't an issue pre OS26.

Also odd that restarting helps/helped some people and not others. Mine has never worked properly since the 26 update... every now and again in the early days it would pop into life and let me do some adjustments before locking up again, but that was only occasionally, many weeks ago, and totally unaffected by any kind of restart.

 

[Station Grey]

Just to clarify does it still work after you then restart the Mac? For me, a monitor restart only fixes it until the next time I restart the Mac and then the problem returns until I restart the monitor again.

As it turns out.... nope.

It was working for a week or two, then I had to log out of the Mac. Back to not working again, tried restarting, powering off monitor etc.

What a total s**tshow.