FaceTime has not received any video from the connected camera. Fix without restart.

This is a fix to FaceTime not having video from your camera.


Symptoms: upon starting FaceTime you have a black screen instead of a stream from your camera, after some time a message "FaceTime has not received any video from the connected camera. Restarting your computer may fix this issue" appears.


Solution:

  1. Quit FaceTime, then
  2. Open Terminal, then
  3. Execute the following command as a standard user (no privilege elevation required):
kill $(lsof | grep "AppleCamera" | grep avconfere | awk '{ print $2; }')


Start FaceTime.

iPhone XS, iOS 16

Posted on Jul 17, 2023 7:03 AM

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FaceTime has not received any video from the connected camera. Fix without restart.

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