Why is Google Chrome not seen in the Screen Recording Options in Security and Privacy settings

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I recently upgraded to Catalina(which I regret now). I have been facing lot of weird issues after upgrading one of which being not able to share the screen on Google Hangout Meet. I followed a few of the approaches mentioned in other forums.

The fix was simple where I have to go the System Preferences > Security and Privacy > Screen Recording and make sure Google Chrome is checked.

The issue for me, though, is that I am not seeing "Google Chrome" on the list when I go to the Screen Recording section and I have no idea how to make Google Chrome seen on the list. Can anyone help with this?

Best Answer

Chrome must first ask for the access. At that time it will show up here unchecked, unless you selected "allow" at the time that it asked.

As @ankii mentioned tccutil will allow you to reset your permissions, but you will require the bundle id of the app in question.

To get the bundle id

% osascript -e 'id of app "Google Chrome"'
com.google.Chrome
%

From there you can reset Chrome's permissions using tccutil

Reset permissions

% tccutil reset ALL com.google.Chrome
%

At this point, if Chrome wants to do anything that would require explicit permission from you, it will have to ask again. It has the permissions as though you had installed it for the first time.

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