Camera Indicator light is always on even when my macbook pro is turned off.

foysal_ahmed wrote:

For the past two days, I have been noticing that my MacBook pro 14's camera indicator light is always green. I have no applications open. I tried opening facetime and then closing it. When I close the Facetime, the camera indicator light goes off for about 1 second and then comes again. I tried restarting (also shutdown and then start by power button) but the problem persists. Finally, When I shut down my mac the light is still green. It is just not going away. What should I do now? Pretty worried about that.

Control access to the camera on Mac - Apple Support

>System Preferences>Security & Privacy>Privacy> Camera, and turn off all apps accessing your Camera.

trouble shoot further — relaunch the VDCA from your Terminal.app copy & paste:

sudo killall VDCAssistant

third party to monitor— a Universal app

https://objective-see.org/products/oversight.html

if no resolve or insight to your issue—

run the user Diagnostic...not as definitive as Apple's own AST2 (Apple Service Toolkit) back bench diagnostic, but may kick out an error code.

Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac

Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac - Apple Support

1 - Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.

2 - Does the issue present in this mode ?

3 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.

4 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.

5 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.

6 - If after performing each of the above steps is the order that have been presents  and still have issues - please advise for possible further assistance

foysal_ahmed wrote:

When I close the lid without shutting it down the light remains on. On the other hand, When I shut down and then close the lid the light goes off at the closing point. But remains on if the lid is open (Even after shut down).

Thank you for getting back to use of that specific question.

At that point, would suggest following either of the two earlier suggestions from respected Contributors.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

When it is OFF, is the lid closed?

Thank you for the updated information

Happy Computing - now 🇨🇦