The host or guest can allow mic access in Chrome by following instructions seen here:
- How To Access Microphone On Mac Pro
- How To Access Microphone On Mac
- How To Access Microphone On Macbook
Select apps you want to have access to the mic; de-select those you want to block access to Check the Sound Input Settings A common fix for a MacBook, Mac, or MacBook Pro microphone not working is to manage the settings. Oct 10, 2018 Hi evreyene, I have updated my MacBook Air mid 2012 from OS X 10.13.6 to 10.14 yesterday and now I have encountered this problem: League of Legends is not allowed to use microphone on Mojave 10.14 and I don't know how to fix it. Click the Lock icon and enter your Mac credentials to make changes to your preferences. Click Microphone in the left menu and select the GoToMeeting checkbox if using the desktop app and/or Google Chrome check box if using the Web App.
Additional Privacy Settings
In addition to allowing mic access in the browser, it may also be necessary for the host or guest to go into the computer's privacy settings to allow mic access for Chrome or Firefox.
Instructions for Mac:
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, then click Privacy.
- Click Microphone.
- Select the checkbox next to Chrome or Firefox to allow it to access the microphone.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-access-to-your-microphone-on-mac-mchla1b1e1fe/mac
Instructions for Windows:
How To Access Microphone On Mac Pro
- Go to Start > Settings > Privacy > Microphone.
- Choose your preferred setting for Allow apps to access your microphone. (You will want to turn this on)
- Under Choose which apps can access your microphone, turn the individual settings for apps On or Off. (If you see Chrome or Firefox in this list, you will want to turn mic access on here as well.)
If any settings changes are made outside of the browser, the browser will need to be refreshed or the computer rebooted for those new settings to take effect.
Previous macOS versions allowed you to control what apps can access your location, contacts, photos, calendar and reminders. macOS Mojave adds the ability to control what apps can access your camera and microphone.
So the 1st time Chrome, Slack or Zoom will try to access your camera or microphone you will get a prompt from macOS:
The prompt will not show for some Apple apps like Safari, FaceTime, Photo Booth and even Safari Technology Preview as they're allowed by default. QuickTime on the other hand will trigger the macOS prompts for camera & mic access.
So the 1st time Chrome, Slack or Zoom will try to access your camera or microphone you will get a prompt from macOS:
The prompt will not show for some Apple apps like Safari, FaceTime, Photo Booth and even Safari Technology Preview as they're allowed by default. QuickTime on the other hand will trigger the macOS prompts for camera & mic access.
The answer to the prompt is persistent and the app will be listed in
System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Camera .
Apps with access to the camera will have a check mark in the above list. You can revoke access by unchecking the app you want to revoke access to. There's a separate list for apps which have requested microphone access.
macOS will only prompt you once for each app. It will not prompt you again about apps in the list. If you want to change the permission for these apps, you will have to do it from the list above.
You can however reset the entire camera and microphone access list by issuing the following commands in the Terminal: tccutil reset Camera and tccutil reset Microphone
OS Level vs Browser Level Permissions
The (OS level) prompt & permission above is different from the (browser level) prompts and permissions you get in Chrome and Firefox for each domain.
For example when trying to record a video in Chrome with the Pipe video recorder on a fresh install of macOS Mojave you'll first be asked by the browser to allow the domain to access the camera and microphone:
How To Access Microphone On Mac
and then by macOS for permission to access the microphone (1st macOS prompt):
and camera (2nd macOS prompt):
How To Access Microphone On Macbook
If you block the browser level permission you will not get the OS level prompts.
