Grant Camera, Microphone, and Screen Recording
- Open the Tella Mac app. On the First, permissions. screen, click Camera, then Microphone, then Screen recording.
- Approve each macOS prompt. If you already denied one, the button opens the matching pane in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Switch Tella on there.
- If Tella still can’t see your screen after you granted Screen Recording, quit and reopen the app. macOS only applies that permission to a freshly launched app.
Do I have to allow keystrokes (Input Monitoring)?
No. The Mac app records without Input Monitoring. Tella only uses it to capture your key presses so you can show keystrokes on screen when you edit, and keystrokes stay hidden in your video unless you turn them on in the editor. Input Monitoring alone records nothing: the app’s Keystrokes setting also has to be on. Recordings made without both have no keystroke data, and keystrokes can’t be added to them later. If you granted Input Monitoring before the Keystrokes setting existed, Tella set it to All keys for you.Turn keystroke capture on or off
- In the Tella Mac app, open … → Settings → Recording.
- Under Screen, set Keystrokes to Shortcuts only (key combinations, never the text you type) or All keys (every key, including text) to capture keystrokes, or to Off to stop.
- If Permission needed appears, click Allow, switch Tella on under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring (click + to add it if it isn’t listed), then quit and reopen Tella.
Recording stopped working after a macOS update?
System updates can reset or invalidate these grants. If recording stops working after an update, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, toggle Tella off and on again under Screen Recording, Camera, and Microphone (and Input Monitoring if you capture keystrokes), then quit and reopen Tella.Recording in your browser uses separate permissions, granted to the browser rather than to Tella: see grant permissions for camera, mic, and screen.