Connectwise Control: Disable Guest Preview

This should be high priority! My Users are upgrading to Sonoma as well, and receiving this same screen. We also do not use the guest preview and have it set to Zero, but this should be allowed to be disabled on the client. We are asking our users to disable the screen sharing privacy setting until this is resolved. If this isn't fixed soon, we may need to switch to a different remote support tool. 

Thanks for your report, we are investigating this issue, but so far have not been able to consistently reproduce. We had it occur on one of our Macs that had multiple agents on it, but once the agents were removed and we reinstalled new ones, the problem did not occur again.

Additionally, we tested commenting out the Guest Screenshot preview code, but since it would not reproduce on demand, we are not able to say if that is the cause or not.

It may be a Sonoma bug, but we do really need y'alls help with this one.

If you can please DM me your contact information, I will arrange a support call with our T3 team. 

Hey Sean,

Thanks for the response! This sounds silly lol, but I'm not sure how I can DM you to provide my contact information. If I click into your profile on this forum, I don't have an option to send a DM. Is there an email address we can sync up on instead?

Thanks!

Hello, we're seeing the same prompt on our machines. Hoping to se if a fix has been found. Thank you.

All, so far, we have not been able to replicate this behavior internally, nor been able to definitively identify ScreenConnect as the culprit.

The Screen Recording icon that is appearing is a new feature of Sonoma and is supposed to only appear when an application is actively recording the screen (ie: a host is connected to the session for ScreenConnect). Anyone here reporting this should contact support or post here with the following information:
1- Exact Version/Build of Sonoma (Apple menu > About this Mac > Click the "Sonoma 14.0" text)

2- Is another application that uses the Sonoma Screen Recording permission running or active?

3- Does the icon, when hovered over or opened identify that ScreenConnect is the application causing the alert?

Thanks!

Sean

1. We are on Sonoma 14.0; I believe this is the only version available at this time

2. No; the notification clearly states only Connectwise is using the permission

3. Yes, Please see the screenshot attached to the original post. 

It's worth noting that this Screen Recording notification/icon is NOT persistent; it only shows up for a couple of seconds at a time, maybe a few times per day. This may make it hard to catch/troubleshoot on your end, however it's what is happening on our systems, and there's no doubt that it's Connectwise accessing this permission. My gut is that it's the Guest Preview that's capturing the screen, which would make sense it's only showing the notification for a few seconds.

I had opened a support ticket on this (#01651280), the response I received yesterday was this:

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As an update, the following has been registered at the highest priority within Development.

SCP-38425
Update Java Client to Prevent Screen Capturing When Guest Screenshot Settings are Disabled

We are working to get this solved as quickly as possible.

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As far as I know there is only 1 released version of Sonoma as of today. (not counting Betas) Here are the details from my users computers. 

Operating System:macOS

Operating System Version:14.0.0

Operating System Build:23A344


Looks like disabling the guest preview stops it from showing in the admin panel however the client is still capturing the screenshot. 

I can confirm that is something we are working on, but it's not expected to resolve this issue, because as I have mentioned, we can't confirm with certainty that the ScreenConnect agent is the cause of the icon appearing (except of course when a host is connected)

The SCP you mentioned is more for code sanitation.

Been able to confirm with three users prompts.
To answer questions above:

1. 14.0 (23A344) - Same for all three users
2. Confirmed no other software actively using screen recording permissions.

3. In all cases when users however over the icon indicating a screen capture is ongoing by connectwisecontrol-xxxxxxxxxxxxx is capturing your screen. In each case the xxxxxxxxx is the same mix of characters and numbers. 

Hi, 
Is there any update on this? 
1. 5~7 MacOS, non Sonama, got the pop up.
2. Confirm no software using screen recording permission.
3. Yes, when hover over, ScreenConnect is named in the message. 

Hi,

Just wanted to post that we are seeing this exact issue appear across multiple Sonoma 14.0 (23A344)

laptops in our company, including mine.

I can confirm that it appears randomly for a few seconds when no other screen recording software is active, then it goes away.

Also yes, when you hover over the icon it names connectwisecontrol-xxxx as the application recording the screen.

All,

We are continuing to investigate this issue, however reproduction in our test environment still remains a challenge. Our support team reported to me that at least one user who experienced this issue has reported that upon updateing the latest Sonoma release (14.1) has resolved the issue.

If any of you who are experiencing this issue could see if updating to 14.1 resolves the issue, please let us know.

Thx,

Sean

Thanks for the updates. 

This is a critical  issue with HIPAA conscience users.

We actually need both Ventura Control fixed AND the feature of turning of preview screenshots per tenant

Can someone confirm whether the steps here:  Restrict or remove the screenshot preview - ConnectWise  will disable this on the client end, and prevent this message for the users?