Force quitting both processes releases them to pick up the camera again and should work normally. It’s a strange situation but there you go.Īccording to Apple, if the VDCAssistant process does not fully release the app that last used the camera, neither AppleCameraAssistant and VDCAssistant can utilize the camera next time around. While these two processes are reset with a reboot, for some reason, force quitting them works when reboot doesn’t always work. Once done you can reload FaceTime, Skype, or whatever you use to video call and retest. Type or paste ‘sudo killall VDCAssistant’ and hit Enter.Type or paste ‘sudo killall AppleCameraAssistant’ and hit enter.Shut down any app that uses the camera.If you cannot reboot or have already tried that and you’re still seeing the ‘No camera available’ error, this is the next thing to try. Force quit AppleCameraAssistant and VDCAssistantĪppleCameraAssistant and VDCAssistant are both processes that support the camera within MacOS. If that doesn’t work there are a couple of specific fixes for this error.
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