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Persistent "Zoom is Accessing Your Screen" Notification After macOS 15.2 Update

I am reaching out regarding an issue I’ve been experiencing after updating my Macbook Air to macOS 15.2 Ever since the update, I keep receiving a persistent notification stating:


"Zoom.us has accessed your screen and system audio XX times in the past 30 days. You can manage this in settings."

This notification appears as a pop-up every single minute while I am using Zoom to share my screen. However, there is no indication of an issue with Zoom's permissions or its functionality—screen sharing works perfectly fine.


The notification seems to be triggered by macOS's privacy features, but this behavior did not occur in macOS 15.1.1 or earlier versions. The repetitive nature of this pop-up is very distracting and disrupts my workflow.


Here are the steps I’ve already tried to resolve this issue:

  1. Verified Zoom’s permissions under System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Screen Recording (Zoom has full access). Disabled and re-enabled the permissions of Zoom also.
  2. Updated to the latest version of Zoom.
  3. Customized notification settings under System Preferences > Notifications to no avail. (disabled and re-enabled zoom notifications, tried banner and other notification types for zoom.)
  4. Tried focus mode (do not disturb)
  5. Restarted my Mac
  6. Tried a couple of third party apps like "muzzle"


When i click the notification this opens:


Unfortunately, the issue persists despite these steps. The constant pop-ups make it challenging to use my Mac effectively during Zoom meetings.


I'm considering to downgrade 15.1.1 if possible. or disable the notification and widget center if possible. Since I'm giving online classes on zoom with screen share on, this repetitive pop up distracts the students.


Could you please provide guidance on how to resolve this? Is this behavior intentional in macOS 15.2, or could it be a bug? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and support.

MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

Posted on Dec 13, 2024 11:33 PM

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Posted on Dec 14, 2024 5:57 AM

This is happening to me. Perhaps the most aggravating user experience choice I've ever seen, even without the glitching. However, the fact that this pops up every second or two and makes the top right of the screen unusable is unacceptable.


https://youtu.be/njA6mam_Bgw

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Dec 14, 2024 5:57 AM in response to Hycn

This is happening to me. Perhaps the most aggravating user experience choice I've ever seen, even without the glitching. However, the fact that this pops up every second or two and makes the top right of the screen unusable is unacceptable.


https://youtu.be/njA6mam_Bgw

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Dec 19, 2024 1:29 PM in response to Hycn

This is just hideous... APPLE! Please Respond and help the community.


It is taking over keyboard focus.


This is affecting simple basic workflows.


I can't share anything while using zoom.


Disabling apple Intelligence is not helping.

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Dec 31, 2024 10:31 AM in response to Hycn

So, I also had this issue and went to Apple Support chat to try and fix it. Problem persisted when restarting in safe mode but did not persist when I created a new account on the computer. They had me uninstall and reinstall Zoom (which was up to date prior to this), and doing that did in fact resolve the issue.


Hope this helps someone else.

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Dec 31, 2024 3:30 PM in response to Hycn

I would suggest uninstalling Zoom completely:

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0065146


I would also recommend not reinstalling it. Instead, simply use it within a modern web browser:

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0064261


I will leave it to you to research Zooms security and privacy record. I personally refuse to install any application such as Zoom, GoTo, WebEx, etc. on my Mac when they are perfectly usable from modern browsers instead. They all have a bad habit of using dark patters in their web interfaces to purposely fool uninformed users into installing the application instead. When a company does everything possible to fool you into installing an application you don't need, you should be questioning that companies' intentions for having a foothold on your computer and invading your privacy.


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Jan 15, 2025 1:10 AM in response to Hycn

This is absurd, I'm unable to get rid of this rapid succession of useless alerts on my screen. I tried reinstalling zoom, didn't help. I'm not enough of a mac power user to feel comfortable tinkering with the terminal. so I ended up removing the zoom client altogether and am using zoom on my browser, which is really not ideal as e.g. I use zoom clips all the time and they're only available on the client.

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Dec 22, 2024 2:09 AM in response to Hycn

github link on the comments worked for me too! thank you jaishankark.


https://github.com/luckman212/screencapture-nag-remover


simply followed the instructions on github, give the terminal "Full Disk Access" when you enter the code to run the application. then it works fine. no more annoying notification!

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Persistent "Zoom is Accessing Your Screen" Notification After macOS 15.2 Update

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