HACKER Q&A
📣 seleythen

Signal App recording screen when is in background


Has anyone observed it? After the new macos update, there is quite a visible icon when screen/sound is recorded. I had the Signal app active in the background, when I noticed that at first - it was recording my screen for a few seconds, and then recording sound (the same for a moment). I didn't catch it on screenshots (for a moment I am trying to filter system logs). So as before - has anyone also observed it?


  👤 gentleman11 Accepted Answer ✓
Get a screenshot and/or show us how to reproduce it. macOS you said? There’s a system tray notification? What features were you using?

👤 DANmode
I've seen it using my Location outside of when I've asked, when I use "Only This Time" permissions, but rare, short, and near enough to my usage of the permission to think it was anything but a bug.

No screen recording.

Depending on how often, I'd be suspecting a malicious version of Signal.


👤 thedougd
Where did you install it from?

👤 jszymborski
Is this on iOS? Haven't observed this on Grapheme.

👤 cmrx64
it’s probably the same as this chromium bug which impacts Opera: https://blogs.opera.com/security/2023/10/screen-capture-noti...

basically it’s warming up a cache… i wonder what triggers it in the background though!