If you are starting TeamViewer on your Mac running macOS 10.15 (Catalina) for the first time, you will be prompted with the following dialog:
By default, all permissions are set to Denied. Please give permission to the system capabilities manually to use TeamViewer as desired. If you or others need to access the Mac remotely, Screen Recording and Accessibility are required at a minimum.
I'm a windows user and I use Teamviewer 13 to connect to a MAC. Obviously, there are some differences between Windows and MAC keyboards, but there are lots of guides on the web that give the correspondence keys between the two keyboards. For example, the 'command' key on MAC is reproducible on the windows keyboard with the key 'Start'.
- Jan 11, 2021 To use a keyboard shortcut, press and hold one or more modifier keys and then press the last key of the shortcut. For example, to use Command-C (copy), press and hold the Command key, then the C key, then release both keys. Mac menus and keyboards often use symbols for certain keys, including modifier keys: Command (or Cmd) ⌘.
- Jun 09, 2020 TeamViewer then automatically opens on your Mac, ready for a remote connection. Click the TeamViewer icon on the menu bar and select the command to Setup Unattended Access. Confirm the computer.
- Jan 10, 2019 To connect to Teamviewer through the command line in MacOS, pass the arguments as follow (substitute xxxxxxxx with the target id, and yyyy with the target password: /Applications/TeamViewer.app/Contents/MacOS/TeamViewer -i xxxxxxxx -P yyyy -ac 1.
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To allow the access, click the buttons shown in the dialog. Eg. click Open Full Disk Access Preferences... which will bring you to the Full Disk Access section of the Privacy pane, inside the Security & Privacy preferences:
For the Accessibility access you will need to click the padlock icon in the lower-left corner to make changes. You will be prompted to enter the credentials of an administrator account to continue.
Put a check next to TeamViewer to grant it access:
Repeat the same for Screen Recording and Accessibility if desired. Those are required to control your Mac.
Click again on the padlock in the lower-left corner to prevent further changes.
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Now you can close the Security & Privacy window. The next time you want to receive an incoming connection with TeamViewer, the person connecting to your Mac will be able to see and control your screen.
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The permission status can be reviewed under Help -> Check system access at any time.