112 Macworld • August 2019HELP DESK
Parental Controls lets you disable any Apple
FaceTime cameras attached to a Macbe made that you can use an account with admin
access for setting things up, but in your return use,
you use a Standard account, which could even have
parental controls enabled for your own focus or
safety that you can bypass as needed.)
In System Preferences > Parental Controls,
under the Apps tab, you can uncheck the option
Allow Use of Camera. If you try to use an app that
requires a camera, no video source option appears
or when selected it won’t stream video from the
FaceTime camera. (Sadly, plugging in an external
webcam that doesn’t require drivers to be installed
bypasses this restriction.)
If you launch QuickTime Player with this parental
control set, the app shows a yellow yield sign next
to the FaceTime camera. Even when you turn that
option back in Parental Controls and quit and
relaunch QuickTime Player, the yield sign persists.