
This obviously raised some privacy concerns, given Zoom had serious privacy vulnerability on Macs in the past. Users have been complaining about the issue since December, as documented in a post on Zoom's community forum.Īs per The Verge, several users noticed that the orange recording indicator light in the Control Center appears when Zoom isn't being used - the indicator light is a privacy feature introduced in Monterey that warns a user when an application is using your microphone.

If you are a Mac user and your microphone stays active even after your meetings on Zoom, then here's how you can fix it.Īccording to The Verge, Zoom has acknowledged a bug that appears to cause the microphone on Macs running macOS Monterey to stay on even after leaving a meeting and the version 5.9.3 update on the app can only fix this.
