| ▲ | jamesmotherway 11 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
"All Apple silicon-based Mac notebooks and Intel-based Mac notebooks with the Apple T2 Security Chip feature a hardware disconnect that disables the microphone whenever the lid is closed. On all 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air notebooks with the T2 chip, all MacBook notebooks with a T2 chip from 2019 or later, and Mac notebooks with Apple silicon, this disconnect is implemented in hardware alone." [1] [1] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/hardware-microphone... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | KennyBlanken 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
That's what they said about the first gen Facetime cameras. "oooh don't worry, it's controlled in hardware!" We have no way of verifying that anything they said in that document is true. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | ohhnoodont 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Obviously the camera is also 'disabled' when the lid is closed regardless of the controlling circuitry. So while that's a good feature, it's not relevant. | |||||||||||||||||