MacBook :: ISight Camera Turning On By Itself
Sep 30, 2009
I have a white macbook (the gen. before the unibody), everything works fine except that sometimes the isight camera turn on by itself. This sometimes happens immediately at the start up and other times when the system is already loaded. The result is the same, the isight camera doesn't work and when i try to use it i get simply a black screen. For to make it works again i need to shutdown the mac and sometimes even to remove the battery. I don't think it can be a Trojan or some virus since i switched to Snow few weeks ago doing a full installation from zero and this trouble still occur even with the new system?
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Sep 11, 2010
I have an external iSight Web camera and want to use it with an iMac with a built in iSight camera. Can I disable the built in iSight camera and instead use the external camera?
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Sep 22, 2008
He has a stock white 2.2GHz MacBook, the 2.2GHz SR, with 1GB RAM. Now, recently, he noticed that the green indicator light next to his iSight camera, is always on, even if he just started up his 'Book. If he tries to open Photo Booth, all he gets is not a picture on the Photo Booth window, but in fact, just plain black inside the window, with no error message. Does anyone know what is going on?
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Mar 12, 2008
My isight camera (as indicated by the green light) on the macbook turns on by itself during startup. Funnily enough, no applications are open that utilizes the camera (eg. skype, ichat, photobooth). The only way I can turn it off is by shutting the macbook off and turning it on again. Not even a restart will do, as the green light is still on after a restart.
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May 11, 2009
So for the past few weeks, the little green light has gone off at random times. It creeps me out, feels like I'm being watched. Anyway, I put a little piece of post it to cover up the camera so I won't be so paranoid. I already did an SMC reset and the problem still persists.
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Apr 1, 2012
The little green light of the iSight camera on my MacBook Pro 13" is always on. I can remove it by resetting the PRAM, but it always comes back. I have not found what app is triggering this so far. I am using Mac OS Lion 10.7.3.Â
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MacBook 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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Oct 25, 2010
Now that we have this new "FaceTime Camera," I'm curious to know how the resolution compares to the previous iSight camera. Is it still .3 megapixels or do we finally have a 1.3 megapixel camera like all the other Macs?? Can someone open PhotoBooth, take a picture of and do a "Get info" please?
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Nov 2, 2010
Apple calls the camera built into the MBA a "FaceTime" camera instead of an iSight camera. What exactly does this mean?
From my understanding, the available APIs from Apple only allow the iSight and FaceTime cameras to record at the same resolution (VGA 640x480). However, the iSight camera is capable of 1280x1020...does this mean the FaceTime camera isn't?
it's the subject of my next YouTube video and demo.
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Jun 25, 2007
the isight camera on my macbook pro isn't working. when i open up Photo Booth, it displays green.
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Nov 22, 2008
i bought a new alum. macbook about 3 weeks ago and so far i love it, but suddenly my isight camera isn't recognized in anything, and it doesn't light up? What could be wrong?
I tried in ichat and in photobooth
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Apr 19, 2010
What are the megapixels of the iSight camera in the new 2010 MacBook Pro.
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Apr 12, 2012
How can I disengage my laptop camera...so that I can use another external video camera for a webinar?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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Apr 23, 2012
Sometimes I use iMovie and my iSight camera for lengthy recordings (6+ minutes). But I need a little more flexibility with camera angles. Is there a camera available that works though Bluetooth, USB, wifi, etc that basically becomes a detached iSight? Or do I need to buy a hand held video camera?
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Jul 2, 2012
The isight camera led (green) of my new Macbook Pro turns on by itself. When the lid is adjust, it temporarily turns off or flickers.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Apr 17, 2010
Could someone give me a direct comparison between resolution on iSight on my macBook and iPhone camera.
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Jun 5, 2006
Using a friends MacBook, but the iSight camera doesn't show anything when using Photobooth.
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Jul 5, 2009
I was wondering what cause my isight camera to quit working?
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Aug 18, 2010
Is there a difference between Macbook Pro and Macbook iSight Cameras? And what is the exact quality of the camera?
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Feb 5, 2012
I have a Macbook white unibody (late 2010). Curiously, I can't seem to find any information about the resolution of the isight camera that came with the computer. What's the camera resolution for my Macbook?
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Mac OS X Lion Thumb USB Drive, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Mar 15, 2012
I have been with this problem since 4 months ago. I think after I updated Flash Player it stopped working. I have tried to restart the SMC but it didn't work. I have been taking care of my Mac Pro very well since I bought it last november 2010.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3),
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Mar 18, 2012
The camera of my Mac Book Air doesn't work anymore. I can't find a way to activate it again or to check whether it's ok or not.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 24, 2012
I just opened my isight camera and for some reason, it's displaying the current picture as a having a blue tint. I updated my software, but it didnt change anything. It's not just photobooth that makes the picture look this way either. When using other programs with the iSight camera, it is still displayed with a blue tint.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Purchased new in December 2011
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Apr 22, 2009
I was messaging with some friends on Adium and I couldn't see their cameras neither them could see mine. Does skype offer this?
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May 8, 2010
my built-in iSight has failed very often during Skype video calls. More specifically, let's say I'm in a video call and I'm showing my webcam to the other person. It works for many minutes, and then I pause the call. As soon as I pause it, I get a message saying something like "no video camera detected, make sure it's plugged in", and from then on my system acts as if there were no iSight installed even if I un-pause the call.If I then go to any other application that makes use of iSight, like Photo Booth for example, it says that there is no camera installed on the system, with a crossed-out camera icon and a black screen in place of the video.
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Jun 19, 2012
I was able to disable the camera while using the original operating system. I upgraded to Lion so I can use I cloud and while in a meeting for work today I got called out for having my camera on. Does anyone know how to disable this? I don't use the camera for anything so I don't care if it will be permanently disabled.
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Aug 21, 2014
My University program has recently adopted using Google+ Hangout for communication and we are told to use Google Chrome as our browser during these sessions.Â
However, my iSight Camera (2009 13' MBP) will not work when using Google Chrome. The camera works fine with all other browsers, applications, etc. (Skype, Safari, Firefox, etc.).Â
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
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May 30, 2010
Western Digital External Hard Drive (1TB w/ its own power source) Logitech Wireless Mouse 0 items plugged in USB = iSight works great with Yahoo 1 items plugged in USB = iSight will not even turn on 2 items plugged in USB = iSight works great with Yahooit does not matter the order or which of the 2 USB ports I use, this happens period.
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Oct 25, 2010
I have a 15'' 2010 macbook pro that I've only owned for about a month and a half. At first the isight camera worked great,I used it multiple times for photobooth. But a few weeks ago I tried to used it for skype and noticed it just showed a black screen. I thought maybe the problem was just with skype, but I started checking other programs and it's the same in all of them. The green light is on and it's recognized in system profiler, but the screen is black.
A few days after this happened, the problem seemed to fix itself, but then it went right back to the black screen 2 days later, and had been that way ever since.
I tried resetting the PRAM, but it didn't help. Is there anything else I can do, or is it time to give in and take my macbook to the Apple store?
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Jun 11, 2012
Using a Feb 2011 Macbook Pro with OSX Lion 10.7.4 It seems that every time i use my built-in iSight camera, then the next time i go to use it, it can not be found. This requires that I reset the PMU, which is kind of annoying. Then it works for a few weeks and the cycle of iSight begins again.  Why does this happen? It seems pretty trivial to consistently recognize a camera which is wired into my computer. Is there something I could do to prevent this from happening again? I have tried turning it on and off again. And currently, this article is linking to the reset instructions for Intel iMac instead of the Macbook Pro page...
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Feb 2011
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Jul 4, 2012
I recently bought a base MBP-RD and can say that I am overall impressed with it, though I have found a couple issues already. One of them is related to the iSight camera which for some reason doesn't work. The camera appears in system profiler, but it shows as "camera not detected" when trying to launch application like iChat, Skype, FaceTime, etc. I already tried re-installing OSX Lion, and still not working.
I have also found some weird issue with graphics where it freezes a series of frames when going to Mission Control or App Expose.
I am returning this computer as there are other things I didn't like, but overall pretty impressive (no LED battery indicator, no Lock slot, no sleep light indicator...)
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