Disabling macOS Indicator Dots

Has this ever happened to you?

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Credit: Sad video engineers in the VE Discord.

Do you want to prevent this from happening again?
  1. Start up from macOS Recovery.
    1. Intel: CMD + R after boot
    2. Apple Silicon: Press and hold power for 10 seconds
  2. From the Utilities menu in the menu bar in macOS Recovery, choose Terminal.
  3. Enter this command: system-override suppress-sw-camera-indication-on-external-displays=on
  4. Quit Terminal.
  5. From the Apple menu, choose Restart, then log in to your user account.
  6. From the Apple menu, choose System Settings, then click Privacy & Security in the sidebar.
  7. Click Microphone. Or click Camera.
  8. Turn off Privacy Indicators.

Originally from this Discord message: https://discord.com/channels/494428283094564864/697864548652154930/1494235397927075840

https://support.apple.com/en-us/118449


Revision #9
Created 2026-10-06 20:00:49 UTC by iantech
Updated 2026-10-06 20:36:38 UTC by iantech