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Beware of this Zoom for Mac bug that affects the microphone

A fairly frequent fear in this era of continuous video calls is leaving the camera or microphone open while we are in a meeting and we think that they do not see us. In fact, with this there are quite a few anecdotes and it is that we all know someone (if it is not yourself) to whom it has happened. In this sense, today we are talking about a zoom bug for mac recently discovered and that you should know if you use this application.

Open microphone at the end of the meeting: this is this Zoom for Mac bug

If you use Zoom for Mac, run to see what version of the application you have. According to some users, Since December 2021, improper behavior of the application has been observed. Apparently, at the end of a meeting the application left the microphone open, running in the background without user consent.

So if you have a version older than Zoom 5.9.3 and you use macOS, you should immediately update to the new version to avoid this problem from happening to you. Zoom itself has acknowledged the error and recommends its users to update to the new update.

 

This bug is fixed in version 5.9.3 for macOS

To prevent the microphone from staying on after finishing a meeting you must upgrade to Zoom 5.9.3where the bug has been fixed. In any case, the developers warn that the company has not listened to its users and that there should be no fear about it, since no one has accessed this data.

This is a new controversy around this company that It was already news because of the security flaws that it experienced at the beginning of the pandemic, the moment in which it experienced the greatest growth in its history. Since then, the app has been updated several times to add feature improvements and new security patches.

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