How to request Microphone Permisson for Mac OSX Standalone?

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I am having a lot of difficulty with triggering the Microphone Permissions prompt for Mac OSX Standalone build. All of the documentation is either for Android or IOS. I have implemented this code from the Application documentation (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application.RequestUserAuthorization.html)

But it does not ask for permission when the code is run. I have also modified the info.plist in XCode to include the "Privacy - Microphone Usage Description".

Is there anything I am missing? Our app is heavily dependent on voice chat and this has been a blocker for releasing on Mac for awhile.

I appreciate your assistance! Thanks!

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Answer by VWAStudios · May 26, 2020 at 10:48 AM

We've spent some time trying to get voice permissions as well while using Vivox. While it would attempt to join a channel, it would fail silently and not actually allow the microphone to transmit.

We discovered that in addition to ensuring NSMicrophoneUsageDescription was in the plist in the mac app bundle package Contents when built, these entitlements also needed to be set:

 com.apple.security.device.audio-input
 com.apple.security.device.microphone

Then the signtool must be run (and a cert may be required)

Both the plist and entitlements must be done. Only modifying the plist may cause the app to crash or fail to open as reported here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/opt-in-permissions-and-info-plist-in-macos-catalina.875461/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49595811/macos-entitlements-audio-input-vs-microphone

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/HOWTO-PortToAppleMacStore.html

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YoungDeveloper · Mar 18 at 03:05 PM 0

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We had problem with VIXOX integration, microphone was silent. This solved it, marked as correct answer.

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Answer by MonkeyPuzzle · Feb 19, 2020 at 09:15 AM

Same issue

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