If you or others need to access the Mac remotely, Screen Recording and Accessibility are required at a minimum. Please give permission to the system capabilities manually to use TeamViewer as desired. You can also open this dialog by clicking on Help -> Check system access.īy default, all permissions are set to Denied.
IMPORTANT: We do not recommend using an Insider Build on your productive system! Note : Currently, TeamViewer 14.7 is live as an Insider Build for open testings for all our participants of the Insider Program and all of you being excited to test our pre-releases If you're starting TeamViewer 14.7 on your Mac running macOS 10.15 (Catalina) for the first time, you will be prompted with the following dialog: You will need to wait until the first incoming connection is made to your Mac before you can add this process. Unfortunately, it is not possible to grant access to the TeamViewer_Desktop process manually. You will need to grant access once again by clicking the button “Open System Preferences” and following the same steps outlined above.
The first time a connection is made to your Mac after doing this, you will be presented with the Accessibility Access dialog once more, but this time referring to the new process. This is also the case when using TeamViewer Host. If you enable the setting Start TeamViewer with System, which is found in TeamViewer’s Preferences, then TeamViewer will restart using a different process called TeamViewer_Desktop.
How to grant access when starting TeamViewer with System
You will be prompted to enter the credentials of an administrator account to continue.
The process differs between Mojave and Catalina. These additional permissions must be granted locally on the Mac and require admin rights. Without this access, TeamViewer users connecting to macOS 10.14 or higher will only be able to view the screen but not control it with their mouse or keyboard.Īnd TeamViewer users connecting to macOS 10.15 or higher will additionally only be able to view the desktop background and the TeamViewer app, but not any other applications at all.
Team Viewer access for Mac OS 10.14 Mojave and Mac OS 10.15 CatalinaĪpple has introduced a security mechanism with macOS 10.14 (Mojave), which requires special access to be granted to remote control applications like TeamViewer.Īnd macOS 10.15 (Catalina) has strengthened the security and privacy even further, and requires additional permissions to be given to TeamViewer in order to control your Mac. Modified on: Mon, 14 Oct, 2019 at 4:48 PM Solution home Navigator Workflow Downloads Team Viewer Mac access on Mac OS 10.14 Mojave and 10.15 Catalina