Binoculars icon & Screen Sharing warning - failing to unlock with Apple Watch

This morning my lock screen lit up with the weirdest message and creepiest binocular icon. Since it shows up on lock screen, I can't click anything or hover the mouse on it. I've already run to google and Apple community threads to search for a solution and saw many different options, and some people seem to have gotten rid of it by changing a bunch of different things on their settings (which I also tried) however my situation does not fit any case:

-no sharing option is enabled (in settings-sharing)

-no smbd tick on Full Access Disk folder

-no displaylink drive found

-no Duet display

-last time I shared my screen was through an Apple TV, on October 2019

-no screen recording going on, either


Is this happening to anyone else?

@apple this is very concerning sos

MacBook, macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 20, 2020 9:49 PM

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Apr 21, 2020 3:56 AM in response to ma96_08

ma96_08 wrote:

This morning my lock screen lit up with the weirdest message and creepiest binocular icon.



I suspect the binoculars icon appears on your locked screen, it indicates that your computer is currently recording your screen. If you happen to lock your screen while a recording is in progress, the binoculars icon will appear in the menu bar to remind you that you have not stopped the recording or that you may have accidentally started a recording.



https://macreports.com/binoculars-icon-on-mac-what-does-that-mean/



Apr 22, 2020 8:23 PM in response to leroydouglas

As I mentioned before, no screen recording was happening, I triple checked :/ I took it to an Apple engineer yesterday and he was not familiar with the combination of uncommon things that happened. But he did go through all of my computer's activity report with me and checked for any other suspicious files or apps, everything seems to be fine..

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