Microphone active in safari when opening Facebook.

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Microphone active in safari when opening Facebook.

Hello,

When opening Facebook in safari (Sequoia), my microphone becomes active. It doesn't if I open other sites. And it doesn't do it in google chrome. So I restricted all access to Facebook by setting my microphone to "refuse" for Facebook. I deleted my safari history, closed it and rebooted. But safari still doesn't want to refuse microphone access to Facebook.

I should say that as standard, it was on "Ask" in website menu in the safari settings.

Does anyone have a clue about why safari still gives microphone access to Facebook ?

I'm on Sequoia with a MacBook Pro M4 pro with all up to date OS and Apps.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.6

Posted on Sep 14, 2025 02:33 AM

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Answer 1

brbo

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Sep 14, 2025 10:14 PM in response to lephotophile

Re: "Microphone active in safari when opening Facebook"

"Does anyone have a clue about why safari still gives microphone access to Facebook ?"

Try checking via Apple Menu > System Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone

You can turn on or off access to Microphone for apps that have been allowed access.

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lephotophile Author

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Sep 15, 2025 01:44 AM in response to brbo

Hello,

Did you read my comment ?

That's what I did. And that's why I posted this issue, because there are no solution I found until now.

Safari memorized my choice. So every time I go in the settings menu, it is effectively on "Refuse". I cleared all cache history and else, and rebooted. I tried as many as five times the whole process. But with no effect.

;-)

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