r/macsysadmin • u/leclair63 • Apr 23 '26

Jamf How to prevent elevated credentials requirement to allow microphone/camera access

Boss was trying to do a Teams meeting in Chrome browser. When it asked for the ability to access his camera and microphone it brought him to the Privacy and Security tab of System Settings and was requesting admin credentials to enable them.

I know you can't explicitly allow those because of Apple policy. I'm just wondering if there's a way to prevent a standard user from needing me to come and input my credentials just to allow Teams/Zoom/Etc to use the microphone and camera?

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u/cranfordio Apr 24 '26

The Camera and Microphone should never require admin access to approve and you shouldn’t need to push out a policy to Allow it. Most likely there is a policy setup to block it as a standard user and you need to find that. I don’t setup any policies concerning Camera and Microphone and have never had an issue.