How do I Reauthorize Screen Sharing for Quicktime?

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At some point, I must have denied Quicktime access to screen sharing. Now that I want to record a Screen Recording, I need to grant it permission again however, when I go to System Preferences to do this, Quicktime does not appear as one of the options to check. Where did it go? Is Quicktime holding a grudge because I denied it previously? How do I Reauthorize Quicktime for Screen Sharing?

how come "I need to grant it permission again" ? where does it ask? Can you post a screenshot ? — anki, Oct 16 '19 at 13:46
Open Quick time and when you click New Screen Recording, it should pop up again asking you to grant permission. Did you try that? — Udhy, Oct 16 '19 at 14:11
Your title & intro refer to screen sharing, yet your issue seems to relate only to screen recording. Can you clarify. — Tetsujin, Oct 16 '19 at 16:41
Does this answer your question? How do I reset Screen Recording permission on macOS Catalina? — Nic, Mar 12 '20 at 23:28

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 23:38

You can reset the screen recording permissions for QuickTime Player using tccutil:

tccutil reset ScreenCapture com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX

After running this command, you need to quit QuickTime Player (if it was open). Then open QuickTime Player again and choose "New Screen Recording..." from the File menu. That will cause the prompt dialog to pop up again so you can grant permission for Screen Recording.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '19 at 15:03

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Quitting and restarting Quicktime several times seems to have made it a selectable option in System Preferences. Once it was selected/checked I was able to perform a screen recording with Quicktime.

answered Oct 18 '19 at 15:03

jesset55

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '20 at 00:51

Running a tccutil reset command did not help me. No apps appeared in the Screen Recording list, as shown in the screen shot of the original poster, and I couldn't figure out how to add them back.

Nic, who posted about a similar situation, suggested that I create a new login user account and log in there, and then get QuickTime Player to record the screen in the new account. This worked for me. Here's what I did:

Starting in my main user account, I created a User 2 account with admin privileges and then switched accounts. In the new account, I launched QuickTime as well as a couple other relevant apps (screen shot and screen sharing apps). Each time I did that, I got the usual prompts to allow Screen Recording access and those apps finally appeared in the list so that I could check them.

When I finally switched back to my regular user account, those permissions were retained, so that I could finally run QuickTime and make screen recordings.

Hope this works for you too.

I had the exact same problem where QuickTime is not in the list of apps. Quitting QuickTime and restarting it several times does not make it appear, and tccutil reset also didn't make it appear. Creating a second admin account seems to be the solution here - and with fast user switching you don't even need to restart after doing so. Deleting it after is also quite trivial, just click the minus button in Users and Groups. — fluffyponyza, Mar 20 '20 at 12:16

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 09 '20 at 10:51

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My solution for this, was open QuickTime, start a recording, tried to give permission and if I didn't see Quicktime there I closed QuickTime and repeated the process a lot of times until it appeared in System preferences.

answered Apr 09 '20 at 10:51

Gibran Bujalil

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How do I Reauthorize Screen Sharing for Quicktime?

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