If you're starting TeamViewer 14 or higher on your Mac running macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or higher for the first time, you will be prompted with the following dialog:
Screen Recording | Accessibility | Full Disk Access |
TeamViewer requires Screen Recording access so remote users can see your screen in Remote Control Sessions and Meetings | TeamViewer requires Accessibility access so your mouse and keyboard can be controlled remotely. | TeamViewer requires Full Disk Access to access files and folders on your Mac for File Transfer (sending and receiving files in general). |
Open up Control Panel by searching for the utility in the Start button or by clicking the Search button or the Cortana button at the left part of your taskbar (bottom left part of your screen). After Control Panel opens, change the view to Large or Small icons and navigate to the bottom to open the Windows Defender Firewall option. Just like TeamViewer, Lite Manager is available cross-platform and works with all the major operating systems including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and Wine. Lite Manager offers a fairly capable free tier where the software allows you to control 30 computers remotely. NEW: Website Monitoring with TeamViewer. Monitor, analyze and improve your website’s uptime, page load speeds and important transactions with TeamViewer Web Monitoring – our new and integrated website monitoring solution. Turn visitors into customers by providing them with the best possible user experience.
You can also open this dialog by clicking on Help --> Check system access.
By default, all permissions are set to Denied. Please give permission to the system capabilities manually to use TeamViewer as desired. If you or others need to access the Mac remotely, Screen Recording and Accessibility are required at a minimum.
Note: If you are managing Macs in your organizations through an MDM system, you can use Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) payloads to configure Accessibility and Full Disk Access permissions. Your users will still need to grant Screen Recording access themselves, this permission does not require admin credentials.
To allow the access, click the buttons shown in the dialog. Virtualbox 6 0 6 millimeters. Eg. click to allow Accessibility, click on Request Access.. - then confirm by clicking on Open System Preferences
which will bring you to the Accessibilitysection of the Privacy panel, inside the Security & Privacy preferences:
For the Accessibility access, you will need to click the padlock icon in the lower-left corner to make changes. You might be prompted to enter the credentials of an administrator account to continue.
Put a check next to TeamViewer to grant it access:
Note: If you are seeing the entry TeamViewer_Desktop in your list, make sure to check this box as well.
Repeat the same for Full Disk Access and Screen Recording. Those are required to control your Mac.
Click again on the padlock in the lower-left corner to prevent further changes.
Once you have done it for every category, you can close the Security & Privacy window. The next time you want to receive an incoming connection with TeamViewer, the person connecting to your Mac will be able to see and control your device.
The permission status can be reviewed under Help -> Check system access at any time.
How to grant access when you aren’t presented with the dialog
Copy clip 2 9 9 – clipboard manager resume. If you're using an older version of TeamViewer, and you're not presented with the Review System Access dialog asking you to grant access to TeamViewer – or if you had previously clicked the Deny button on that dialog – it’s still possible to grant access to TeamViewer.
Additionally, in some cases, you can grant access to TeamViewer immediately after installing TeamViewer onto your Mac, before the first TeamViewer connection is made to your computer. Note that this is not possible with TeamViewer Host.
Here’s how:
Teamviewer Admin Panel Settings
- Go to System Preferences, then Security & Privacy, then Privacy, then Screen Recording, Full Disk Access, and Accessibility.
- Only for Accessibility: Click the lock icon to make changes.
- If TeamViewer is already shown in the panel, then put a check next to it to enable it.
- If not, click the small button with the plus symbol underneath the panel. This opens a Finder window:
- Navigate to your Applications folder, select TeamViewer, and click Open.
- Now you should have TeamViewer listed in the panel and enabled.