Millions of people rely on Microsoft Teams to attend video meetings.

Whether youre a school teacher, student, or business professional, Teams are part of your everyday life.

Well, Microsoft Teams may sometimes fail to detect the camera.

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This means youcant share videoimages, and the other meeting participants cant see you.

If that did not work, unplug it and power cycle your machine.

it’s possible for you to then plug the webcam back in.

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If there are other peripherals connected to your rig, unplug all of them.

This includes external storage devices, controllers, coolers, you name it.

They might interfere with your webcam.

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If you enabled these controls, Microsoft Teams wouldnt be able to access and use your camera.

Close Other Programs Accessing the Camera

find out if other programs could potentially access your camera.

Go ahead and close them if theyre running in the background.

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If another program is using your camera, Teams wont be able to access it.

Update Teams

Ensure youre running the latest Teams version on your machine.

The app automatically installs the latest updates.

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punch your profile picture and selectCheck for updates.

reset your machine after you installed the latest updates.

Go toSettingsUpdate & SecurityWindows UpdateandCheck for updates.

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Toupdate your drivers:

Your Mac automatically installs the latest drivers when you update the OS itself.

To do that, punch theApple menuand selectSystem Preferences.

Then click onSoftware Updateand check for updates.

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Let us know if you managed to troubleshoot this camera issue.

Do tell us which method worked for you.

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