MacBook Air iSight camera stopped working after latest firmware update

I'm experianceing the same thing, after the Mavericks update. It says I don't have a camara installed on a Mid 2012 Macbook air. Any new help?

Has anyone tried to do a clean install of OS X Mountain Lion to see if it fixes the problem?

Somehow I have a feeling Maverick permanently damaged my camera and there is no way back unless I pay $150 for Apple to fix my MBA. This is complete BS.

I have the same problem after Mavricks update the camera cant be detected.

I also update to ssd so i went back to the snow lepord install from old hdd and still cant detect the camera.

It has got to be something to do with firmware..

Any one any ideas will be helpfull.

i have mid 2010 mac..

Were you able to solve the problem i have the same mac and same problem

Is there any new help yet apple? We're all waiting here trying to figure out what you did to kill our webcams.

same problem here. after mavericks install and re-install no camera detected on macbook pro.

i have a late 2010 MBA. same camera problem. i updated to mavericks but that didnt fix the problem. ive also got a mid 2009 MBP running on ios 10.7.5 but the camera works fine on that so im not sure what the problem is. these machines are great when they work. if they dont you are screwed!

Everyone copies and pastes the same solution (reset SMC, install upgrde for 10.8.5 which is stupid since most people updated to 10.9!!, log out and log back in, restart) all are useless!! Ever since the upgrade, facetime gives the error "No video capture devices were found." In hardware, it says no camera detected. No program which uses cam is working (Skype, Photo booth, Oovoo, etc) No one seems to have a real solution to this except to paste the same useless info from other posts - People - We need a new solution which actually works. We dont want to see the same useless suggestions again and again. PLEASE let us have something that works. Even going to the apple store is rediculous, they want to take apart the machine and make it into a hardware problem. It is not a hardware problem!!! I tried a suggestion of replacing the "AppleCamera.plugin" in /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/ with the same plugin from a backup and that also did not work. This is getting frustrating. What a mess.

I'm just updated and now the camera doesn't work. It was working fine just before the update to 10.9.1. This doesn't seem to be a hardware issue. Using a Late 2010 MBA. The SMC reset didn't make a difference either. It would be great to get a resolution to this problem.

Is there a way to bring up this issue to Apple as a group, or do we each individually have to report this by calling tech support or visiting a Genius Bar?

I suspect this became a hardware issue when we installed the update (OSX10.9). It's possible the firmware update damaged the actual hardware and we're now stuck with a bad iSight camera.

I feel your frustration!

I have been dealing with this problem since mid-July. I've been managing to work without the camera installed, but at this point I don't see the point in being inconvenienced to this degree. I've been trying all of the suggestions that have been posted on this thread, but to no avail. Waiting for Apple to give some help on this issue.

I have a MacBook Air

So I updated to Maverick about a month ago and my camera stopped working completely. Being foolish I thought it was my photobooth so I deleted it (and yes I emptied my trash) and now have no way of getting it back. I'm not too worried about that- my concern is that I can't take pictures from facebook/twitter/tumblr/skype...

Then I went to my manage settings in chrome under media settings and it turns out my camera is not even listed as something that works... So I need help please.

1) How do I get my camera working?

2) Is there a way to get photobooth back?

I've got an mbp from 2008 with "no camera detected" under camera or USB section of the system report with 10.9.1. But when I boot from my old USB disk with Lion on it, the camera is detected.

Resetting SMU and PRAM didn't fix anything. Repairing permissions didn't help. It must be some software problem or conflict.

Definitely not a camera hardware problem.

Back in 2008 I switched from MS to MAC to flee troubles like this.

Maybe it's my fault for upgrading to Mavericks so early. I'm in too far to go back to Lion. Bummer.

After installing the Mavericks update I've got no camara detected also.

-I've been on the Phone with apple 2 times already.

-I've reset PRAM

-reset SMC

-Tested it in a new user.

-Reistalled Mavericks fresh and the situation is still the same.

*Still reads no camara detected.

I'm going to call apple and push hard for them to fix this at their expence. I followed their recomendation for the software update and their update broke their machine. Any stories of success yet?