

When it is selected, you can also close the overlay using the Escape key.

This text is shown in a non-activating window that closes after a few seconds, meaning that the VoiceOver cursor stays where it was and you don’t lose focus. Show current activity: By pressing a new, configurable hotkey, Micro Snitch shows the current microphone or camera activity textually, which VoiceOver reads automatically.These notifications are read by VoiceOver automatically. Notifications: Micro Snitch uses OS X notifications to announce activity.Micro Snitch now plays nicely with the accessibility features built into OS X, like VoiceOver. You can also enable notifications when devices are connected or disconnected. Micro Snitch now shows notifications when devices become active or inactive. This version of Micro Snitch will show a short message explaining the situation when running on an affected Mac.įor more information, please refer to this FAQ: Does Micro Snitch work with every Mac’s built-in camera and microphone? Notifications When OS X El Capitan will be released this fall, Micro Snitch will work correctly with the affected Macs. Note that Micro Snitch’s ability to detect and report on your Mac’s microphone activity is NOT affected by this issue. We contacted Apple about this and they resolved this issue in the preview version of OS X El Capitan.
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There’s a bug in OS X Yosemite that prevents Micro Snitch from correctly detecting the activity of the FaceTime HD Camera on some newer Mac notebooks. About support for FaceTime HD camera on newer Macs
