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Recording Indicator Utility has been discontinued. Follow https://support.apple.com/118449 instead.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2022-02-09 · latest 2025-06-09

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  1. > You're either fully locked in, or fully on your own. I'm not sure what you mean by that. You can trivially root a Pixel factory image. And if you're talking about how they will punish you for that by removing certain features: Apple does…
  2. > to provide a trusted boot chain the way Apple does Your flaw is assuming that Apple's only doing that for your security and has no ulterior motives. But iOS apps are disabled and Netflix reduces to a lower resolution when you disable…
  3. In the past I've used microsnitch on macos which tells you when the mic or camera are activated, but macos seems to have support for this baked into the os now. In zoom calls the menu bar shows what is active. If this can be sidestepped…
  4. It does lock you out of iOS apps, Apple Pay, and 4K streaming of DRM content [1]. But that's not so bad I suppose. [1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/RecordingIndicatorUtili...
    comment by NotPractical · 2024-09-18 · in macOS Sequoia is available today
  5. There's this but it requires starting in recovery mode: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/RecordingIndicatorUtili...