
In 2020, the company was accused of misleading users into offering end-to-end encryption, when it really wasn’t the case at the time.Ī Zoom representative later commented on the post, stating that Zoom “detected a bug with the Zoom client for macOS that could indicate that the orange indicator light continues to appear after leaving a meeting, call, or webinar has”. This obviously raised some privacy concerns, as Zoom has had serious privacy vulnerabilities on Macs in the past. Several users have noticed that the orange recording indicator appears in Control Center when Zoom is not in use – the indicator light is a privacy feature introduced in Monterey that alerts a user when an application is using your microphone. Users have been complaining about the issue since December, as documented in a post on Zoom’s community forum. and updating to version 5.9.3 of the app can only fix this.


Zoom has confirmed a bug that appears to cause the microphone to stay on after leaving a meeting on Mac devices running macOS Monterey. If you’re a Mac user and your microphone stays active even after your meetings on Zoom, here’s how to fix it.
