I did what you said and "quit" VCD assistant. Nothing happened. I then Force Quit it and nothing happened. But I did get a weird message: Do you really want to quit “VDCAssistant”?The process “VDCAssistant” is owned by _cmiodalassistants. I restarted but it made no difference. I even went to my test account and still no camera access.




Originally Posted by artie505
Our version of Catalina hasn't got AppleCameraAssistant, but it has got VDCAssistant.

Launch Apps/Utilities/Activity Monitor > Memory and search for VDC. Select it, and hit the "X" in the top left corner to quit or, as necessary, force quit it. No need to get involved with Terminal.

Can't hurt...I guess...

I also guess that it would pay to restart afterwards.

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