{"id":28885,"date":"2020-05-07T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28885"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:50:49","slug":"zapping-the-pram-for-catalina-permissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/zapping-the-pram-for-catalina-permissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Zapping the PRAM for Catalina Permissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericasadun.com\/2020\/05\/04\/catalina-permissions-chrome-zoom-etc\/\">Erica Sadun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/ericasadun.com\/2020\/05\/04\/catalina-permissions-chrome-zoom-etc\/\"><p>Ran into trouble this weekend where I was unable to add permissions for a number of apps to allow access to my microphone and camera.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>With some help from Bas Broek and <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/251161369\">this article<\/a>, which specifically addressed the inability to grant access in Catalina, I discovered that rebooting with a NVRAM\/PRAM reset might help. It sounded like sacrificing chicken entrails but it worked. While a regular reboot didn&rsquo;t help, the Cmd+Option+PR reboot did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/vmware-fusion-10-on-macos-catalina\/\">VMware Fusion 10 on macOS Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/detecting-screen-recording-permission-on-catalina\/\">Detecting Screen Recording Permission on Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/catalina-vista\/\">Catalina Vista<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Sadun: Ran into trouble this weekend where I was unable to add permissions for a number of apps to allow access to my microphone and camera.[&#8230;]With some help from Bas Broek and this article, which specifically addressed the inability to grant access in Catalina, I discovered that rebooting with a NVRAM\/PRAM reset might help. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-05-07T19:50:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"361855af-8e12-4bf6-bbb4-17bd2e8eca84","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-05-07T19:50:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANhhVr44SS_a7tBe9Lo7KhA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,30,1666,355,1181,1839],"class_list":["post-28885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-privacy","tag-system-preferences","tag-zoom"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28886,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions\/28886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}