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Fixing Error with a Mac FaceTime Camera
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Fixing Error with a Mac FaceTime Camera

“There is no connected camera” problem

No Connected Camera???

Solution 1

  • Rebooting the Mac will Fix the “No Connected Camera” Error

Rebooting is obviously inconvenient though since it halts whatever you’re doing, and that really isn’t an option if you’re attempting to keep an appointment with a time critical video call. So if you can’t reboot the computer for one reason or another, we’ll show you another way to quickly fix the error message and get the camera working again on the Mac.

Solution 2

(not require a reboot)
  1. Quit all open apps that may try to use the FaceTime camera
  2. Open Terminal

sudo killall VDCAssistant

then

sudo killall AppleCameraAssistant

Enter the administrator password when requested

Relaunch the app that was attempting to use the camera

If you want to string the two commands together into a single line to fix an unresponsive Mac camera you can do that like so

sudo killall AppleCameraAssistant;sudo killall VDCAssistant

Ref: osxdaily

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