

When the application is not active but still running, it appears with a small dot under the application icon in the dock.
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How to know if the application is running on the background in Mac?įinder, Safari and Skype are running on the background

In order to unload it from the memory and free the resources they took you need to quit the apps. Normally, we close the apps after using, but most people do not realize that when they are exiting out of the app by clicking the X icon the application still runs on the background. I noticed this problem many times when using Hangouts or imo. Non-Apple programs act even worse when sharing access.
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While Apple apps usually work nicely together, for instance, you can have both Photo Booth and FaceTime on the screen at the same time, from time to time they take over the full control of video and sound devices. Over the last year, I’ve been using several of them: Skype, imo, Hangouts, ooVoo, Zoom, Yahoo Messenger, FaceTime, etc. There is a great number of video chat or video conference apps around and we keep changing from time to time trying to find the perfect one.
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Quick fixes when the camera is not working Closing applications that use video Want to know more? Keep reading, but first here’s a pro-tip: there are good external cameras for MacBooks, check here for my recommendations. The quick fix when the camera is not working is to restart the MacBook and start the app again. Why is the camera on MacBook not working? With new versions of macOS, it is possible to share a camera between different applications, but sometimes the applications take full control of the device. Fortunately, we were able to quickly fix the problem and today I decided to write some useful tips on MacBook camera problems. Yesterday my friend called me 5 minutes before her job interview when she realized that the video was not working in Skype on her MacBook.
