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

Privacy indicators are 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. To hide them on an external display while viewing an app in full screen:

  1. Start up from macOS Recovery.

  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.

Need more help?

Tell us more about what's happening, and we’ll suggest what you can do next.

Get suggestions

Published Date: