Screen recording is not working in Monterey

Hey HugoLi,

It appears that you're having a problem recording the screen of your Mac after upgrading from macOS Catalina to macOS Monterey. The toolbar to start recording doesn't show, and we're glad to provide assistance.

How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support -- See if you're able to record the screen after restarting your Mac in safe mode. If it works, restart your Mac normally and test the issue again. Please be aware: "When you start up in safe mode, your Mac prevents some software, such as startup items, from loading, and it performs a check of your startup disk. Your Mac may take longer to start up because of the check."

New user or group setup - Apple Support -- If you can't record the screen of your Mac in safe mode, or restarting it normally it didn't work as expected, create a new Administrator account. See if screen recording works there.

Please let us know the results when you're able by replying to this post.

All the best.

Thanks for getting back to us with that information, HugoLi. It’s helpful.

We’d like to isolate this issue further. Were you able to test in a new administrator account as well? If so, what were the results? This will help us determine our recommendations on the next step(s) you should take.

Cheers!

I had this same issue and was able to figure it out. As with you, I could only record without an audio input. I normally use Loopback for my audio capture source, and when I selected it I couldn't record at all. However, I found that after I gave Loopback screen recording permission in security and privacy preferences I could record without issue. For some reason, this also fixed the issue for my Macbook's microphone as well.

Hopefully if you give whatever audio capture source you're using screen recording permission it will start working again.