{"id":34497,"date":"2021-12-20T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34497"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:44:32","slug":"monterey-shows-orange-microphone-dot-on-video-projectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/20\/monterey-shows-orange-microphone-dot-on-video-projectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Shows Orange Microphone Dot on Video Projectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/2021\/12\/apple-added-an-orange-dot-thats-a-showstopper-for-live-visuals-and-it-needs-a-fix\/\">Peter Kirn<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=29627382\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/2021\/12\/apple-added-an-orange-dot-thats-a-showstopper-for-live-visuals-and-it-needs-a-fix\/\">\n<p>In the interest of security and privacy, Apple on macOS Monterey has added a prominent orange dot to display outputs when audio capture is active. That renders their machines unusable for live visual performance, though, since it&rsquo;s also shown on external displays.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You can disable the menu bar on external displays, via the &ldquo;Displays Have Separate Spaces&rdquo; display preference, but the orange dot still appears.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like a bug that it appears even on displays with no menu bar.<\/p>\n\t\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=29628338\">Sidnicious<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=29628338\"><p> As far as I know, the best long-term answer here is for apps that present visuals full screen to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/coregraphics\/1456259-cgdisplaycapture\">capture<\/a>&rdquo; the external display for exclusive use using an API, but that&rsquo;s not super common right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/micro-snitch-1-0\/\">Micro Snitch 1.0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"monterey-shows-orange-microphone-dot-on-video-projectors-update-2021-12-28\">Update (2021-12-28): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/12\/22\/av-artists-frustrated-by-orange-dot-macos\/\">MacRumors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"monterey-shows-orange-microphone-dot-on-video-projectors-update-2024-11-18\">Update (2024-11-18): <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/118449\">Apple<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/norden.social\/@chucker\/113497624970179938\">S&ouml;ren<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/118449\">\n<p>In macOS Sonoma 14.4 or later, you can choose to hide the privacy indicators on an external display while you're viewing an app in full screen. The privacy indicators still appear on the main display of your Mac.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is done via:<\/p>\n<pre>system-override suppress-sw-camera-indication-on-external-displays=on<\/pre>\n<p>in Recovery.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Kirn (Hacker News): In the interest of security and privacy, Apple on macOS Monterey has added a prominent orange dot to display outputs when audio capture is active. That renders their machines unusable for live visual performance, though, since it&rsquo;s also shown on external displays. 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