My mac says "Your screen is being observed" on the lock screen. How do I tell what app is doing this?? I've already turned off screen recording permissions for all apps in the Privacy section. And rebooted.

Nov 1, 2021 · 11:04 PM UTC

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Update: I found the app causing the "Your screen is being observed" message! It is the drivers for the 3dconnexion SpaceMouse! Why that needs screen recording capability is beyond me.
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Replying to @aaronpk
Just incase you have a background recording going on hit CMD + Shift + 5 to stop it.
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Nope, and Zoom and OBS are closed too.
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Do you have any remote connection tools like teamviewer installed?
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Nope, not a lot of stuff installed on this, certainly nothing that you'd expect to be screen recording
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are you using a DisplayLink dock/dongle/monitor?
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Nope, nothing plugged into this laptop at all right now.
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Sidecar?
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I haven't connected sidecar since rebooting this time
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Pesky quantum computing. (Kidding aside, have you tried Cmd-Ctrl-Esc? In theory that should cancel whatever recording is trying to happen.)
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