Reset an app's camera, microphone or screen-recording permission — via Apple Developer Documentation

Commandlow riskmacOS 14 Sonoma and later

If you clicked 'Don't Allow' by mistake, or an app's permission seems stuck, tccutil wipes the saved decision so the app has to ask again. You can reset one permission for one app, or everything for an app you've uninstalled.

Takes effect right away

The easy way

  1. The easy way for most cases: System Settings > Privacy & Security, pick the permission (Camera, Microphone, Screen Recording…) and switch the app on or off.
  2. Use the command when the app is missing from the list or behaving oddly. Replace Camera with Microphone, ScreenCapture, Accessibility, Photos or All, and the bundle ID with the app's own.
  3. Bundle IDs look like com.google.Chrome or com.apple.Terminal.

Command

Run in Terminal (Applications › Utilities).

tccutil reset Camera com.google.Chrome
There's nothing to undo: the app simply asks again next time, and you choose. Without sudo the reset only affects your own user account; adding sudo resets it for every account on the Mac, so leave it off unless that's what you want. Leaving out the bundle ID resets that permission for every app, so be specific.

Sources

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2026-11-02
Link checked
2026-11-02
Tested hands-on
Not by Oddbyte.Me

Oddbyte.Me hasn't tried this on every macOS version, so keep the undo handy.

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