"To cast, give Chrome access in system settings." -- which system settings?

This is the ONLY thing that has worked for me! Been watching this thread for over a month. Thanks!

This: DISABLE this feature flag: chrome://flags/#use-network-framework-for-local-discovery.

This IS the solution. But when you post solutions, you should assume EVERYBODY reading these things are 6 year olds and unfamiliar with all the thing YOU apparently know.

So, to those of us like myself (a 30+ year mainframe computer programmer no less).

Into your ADDRESS bar in your CHROME browser, type---> "chrome://flags/#use-network-framework-for-local-discovery" (leave out the 2 ")

Hit "Enter"

In the ensuing tab, "Use the Network Framework for local device discovery on Mac" should be highlighted.

To the right, click and set the value to "Disabled".

Relaunch the browser - then you should be able to click on the 3 dots in the upper right, scroll down to "Cast", the over to "Cast" and click on it.

That should allow your casting to work again - at least it did for me.

I have tried almost everything and nothing was working. Finally made it to work.

1. First, uninstall chrome by using app cleaner or something similar app.
2. Reset Location & Privacy Permissions: Sometimes, macOS’s permission cache can become problematic. Open Terminal and run the following command:

tccutil reset ScreenCapture

• Recheck Privacy Permissions: Sometimes, macOS needs you to re-enable permissions, even if they’re already checked. Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Screen Recording and Accessibility. Uncheck Chrome, restart your Mac, then go back to these settings and check Chrome again.

I hope this helps

Here's another one. I use TPLink Deco routers. I had "Device Isolation" enabled, with the Mac in it - but not the Chromecast streamer. I turned off this feature, and voila, things began working again.

aprimrose1 wrote:

This is the ONLY thing that has worked for me! Been watching this thread for over a month. Thanks!

This: DISABLE this feature flag: chrome://flags/#use-network-framework-for-local-discovery.

Thanks - this worked for me! Everything else failed.

This solution worked. Giving Chrome access to "Local Network" seems to be a new thing, on top of "Screen & System Audio recording"

THIS WORKS. Been driving me nuts for the last hour. Copy chrome://flags/#use-network-framework-for-local-discovery into your search bar, it'll highlight the flag in yellow. DISABLE IT. Fixed.

The ONLY thing that worked for me was disabling the flag chrome://flags/#use-network-framework-for-local-discovery, it somehow forced Chrome to search for device ant boom, found my LG smart tv. Tried everything else and nothing.

Disabling the feature flag worked for me:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/373759995#comment42

It seems like rolling back to M129 solves the issue for now. It might also fix the issue by disabling this feature flag: chrome://flags/#use-network-framework-for-local-discovery.

Here is the solution. it helped me to resolve this issue. check google chrome in local network.

hey guys...if nothing is working for you try this method..... toggle off the local network permission for chrome in settings..... Leave it off keep on doing your normal things and at some point chrome will ask for the permission on its own and you just have to press allow on the pop up permission and thats it. Remember when you toggle off quit chrome at least once and then start using it normally.

In case this does not work for you either then alternate solution is to dload chrome canary and use casting through it after allowing the local network permissions that it pops up once you set it up.

Hope this helps everyone !

I've spent two days trying to get this sorted. Lengthy online chats with both Google and Apple. Apple were like "It's a Google issue!" And Google - "It's an Apple issue". I tried various things including Google' suggestion of going into the MDM and changing the firmware but I can't do that on a personal computer and Apple said that shouldn't need to be done even if I could. Google didn't seem to take on board that Chrome and casting worked fine until the recent update of Chrome & that casting from phone apps worked just Desktop Chrome was an issue. Deleting & reinstalling Chrome worked as a one-off, but if I quit Chrome, shut down my Macbook and started up & reopened Chrome I could no longer cast. Playing around with access in local network and Screen recording etc -quitting, rebooting and other combinations made no difference. Rebooting all devices and making sure operating systems were up to date using the same wifi etc all made no difference. In the end Google told me to download and use Canary, "that will work", but said they would escalate to another support team only for them to be less helpful than previous chats. So I downloaded Canary and I've been using it for 24hrs now and I'm able to cast with no issues. Regular Chrome is still an issue. Will see how Canary goes over the next few days.

After uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome, this actually worked for me when I ENABLED (rather than disabled, as you said) this feature. Very strange.

When I enabled it and relaunched Chrome and tried to cast, I got a new MacOS permission dialogue asking for Local Network permission for Chrome, which I accepted. Then when trying to cast again, Chrome didn't ask me to grant it permissions but instead searched and found my castable devices.

There are still like 20 instances of Chrome in my Local Network permissions list.

Uninstall Chrome and then reinstall it. It fixed the casting access issue for me. Drag Chrome to the trash on a mac and then empty the trash. Open a different browser and reinstall Chrome. Cast tab works again on Sequoia.

Folks! Was able to cast last night, then this morning Chrome updated and then tonight I could no longer Cast. Tried all the usual reboots. Was able to cast from apps on my phone. Then had a lengthy online chat with Google who said it was a firmware issue with Mac and I would need to sign into the winston apple account through the apple MDM. Whatever the flip that means. lol. Then I had a lengthy online chat with Apple Support. They said they didn't know any known issues, until I linked this discussion thread. They suggested updating OS to 15.1 (currently doing) to see if that helped, and then try safe mode and then if nothing, come back to them.

So I closed that chat and just thought I'd try putting Chrome in the bin. I dragged it to the bin from the dock but it didn't go into the bin, so I quit Chrome and then reopened it and what happened, I'm suddenly able to cast again. That's before OS has updated. I know it's mentioned in the thread to delete Chrome, but has varying degrees of success for people.

So not sure what on earth is happening. Dragging Chrome from the dock into the bin and then quitting Chrome seems to get it working. Frustrating that neither Google or Apple are overly helpful.