Hide privacy indicators on external displays in macOS

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.

Turn off privacy indicators for external displays on your Mac

Requires macOS Sonoma 14.4 or later

To hide privacy indicators — the orange and green dots that appear next to Control Center in the menu bar to show that your microphone or camera is in use — on an external display while viewing an app in full screen, first execute a system override command in Terminal. Then turn off privacy indicators for external displays in System Settings.

  1. Start up from macOS Recovery:

    1. Use macOS Recovery on a Mac with Apple silicon

    2. Use macOS Recovery on an Intel-based Mac

  2. From the Utilities menu in the menu bar, 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.

  6. After your Mac restarts, choose Apple menu  > System Settings, then click Privacy & Security in the sidebar.

  7. Click Microphone (or Camera).

  8. Turn off Privacy Indicators for Microphone (or Camera) Access.

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