I have a macbook air 11' mid 2011 running OSX Yosemite 10.10.1
Check the video out ports on your MacBook Air. In order to connect to a monitor, your MacBook needs either an HDMI port or a MiniDisplay Port. Some newer Macbook Airs do not have an HDMI or MiniDisplay Port. If this is the case, you will need to purchase a USB-C-to-HDMI adapter to connect your Macbook Air to a monitor. Sep 11, 2020 Restart the computer.You can perform a restart by heading to the Apple Menu in the upper left-hand corner of your Mac’s screen and clicking the Restart option. If any processes are using the camera in the background, a restart may fix the issue, providing you full access to the camera once again. May 07, 2020 If your Mac is using macOS Catalina and you use Screen Time, make sure your camera is turned on and apps that use the camera have time available. Choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Screen Time.
I need to use the facetime camera, but it says no camera is available.
Obviously if the Mac does not have a camera it won’t be able to take a picture, but every MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and modern iMac contain the bezel screen camera. The quality of the pictures will depend on the quality of the Macs FaceTime camera, newer models tend to have higher resolution cameras.
what I have done (6 hours or research and grief later):
After reading a plethora of forums, I have tried:
Migrated from OSX Mountain Lion to Yosemite.. will definitely fix your problem. no good...
Installed the latest update... yep...
used the disk Utility repair again just in case... yep... still no good.
restarted the computer... yep. no good...
open a terminal and type sudo killall VDCAssistant
yep that was a waste of time... its not even on my laptop.
the USB camera is not in the System Information USB Tree. and under camera it says no video capture devices were found.
Found a really helpful UTube video which suggested I Kill off a Parrot thingy... wasnt even in the devices list...
I have read through the plethora of forums on this problem even further... there are literally thousands of them.
The most popular answer which Apple appears to provide is: and by the way you keep running into this suggestion...
One of these will fix your problem:
(1) If restarting your Mac doesn't fix the problem, (NOPE didnt fix it..)
(2) use Apple's http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 (NOPE no help... as:
Activate Camera On Macbook Air
did the use Disk Utility to repair permissions thing.. yep... still no camera...
the USB camera is still not in the System Information USB Tree.
How To Use The Camera On My Macbook Air Louder
(option 3 applies to me... cant see the camera in the USB...
no suggestion on how to resolve that ... but there is a (4) so I tried that...
I reset the SMC ... guess what... still no camera...
The camera used to work...
............................................................................... My thought and question of Apple is below ...................................................
I am thinking the port on which the camera communicates is disabled in the new software version, or it is reassigned to something that is in conflict with it. The USB connection is set at the manufacture level to something which is not being detected now.
How To Use The Camera On My Macbook Air Freezes
CAN APPLE PLEASE ADVISE ME WHICH DEFAULT PORT THE CAMERA IS CONNECTED TO AND CONFIRM THAT IT IS NOT DISABLED BY DEFAULT
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Please dont tell me its a problem with the camera... I could probably roll back to the old software, and my system would work just fine... this has been a total pain in the neck... and has cost me many hours...
Yes I am going into the Apple store tomorrow... another two hours out of my life... probably to be told its a hardware issue and they need to take it away and charge me money to fix it.. but I will take it there and decline to pay any money. It is out of warranty and probably not essential to the laptop to use. It s frustrating that there is no easy fix to this problem despite the plethora of forum articles and posts by thousands of people experiencing the same problem.
There is no way Apple can stick its head in the sand and claim its a hardware issue.
I have tried to look for a built-in USB camera driver for Apple Macbook Air... good luck with that... If the old system driver was about, perhaps someone could check the communications ports and work out where this problem actually sits.
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Camera Not Working
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