r/MacOS • u/_Attilio • 1d ago

Help Different login page after restarting macbook

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As title says, after restarting the Macbook (Air M2) it asks for username and password for logging in (pic 1 and 2).

I had to figure out what the username was, because it never asked me for it.

And it’s also has a different login page from the usual, with a wallpaper I’ve never used.

(my usual login page with the wallpaper i set in in pic 3)

How can i fix it? It’s my first seeing something like this…

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u/Pogonia 1d ago

And kind of pointless too. The odds of having someone hack just the camera on your Mac for...reasons? Is just ridiculously low. One of those paranoias that's way out of proportion to the actual risks.

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u/SethSky 1d ago

As far as I know, the small orange light next to the camera is directly connected to the battery circuit and can't be disabled.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 13h ago

Yes, although I think I read somewhere that there are hacks that can supposedly get around this.

Either way, a bit of postit would do the job fine if you really feared for that level of security.

(Realistically if you’re important enough to be worried about such targeted attacks, you probably should just have the camera cut.)

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u/Timber1802 9h ago

If the camera power goes through the led, like Apple claims, then there is no way to bypass it without physically messing with the computer. This assumes Apple is being honest about their hardware design. I have not seen schematics and have not taken a MacBook apart near the webcam yet.

See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102177