On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Security Privacy, then click Privacy.

Select the checkbox next to an app to allow it to access the microphone.

If you allow third-party apps or websites to use your microphone information, any information they collect is governed by their terms and privacy policies.

Its recommended that you learn about the privacy practices of those parties.

For systems administrators who want information about deploying security settings, see the macOS Deployment Reference.

See also Change Privacy preferences on Mac Apple Support article: Report a security or privacy vulnerability Apple Support article: Security and your Apple ID.

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Read on as we show you how to share your game library with friends and family (and highlight some of the limitations of the system in the process).

Steam Family Sharing does not allow you to purchase one copy of a game and then share it with all your friends.

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You cant buy one copy of Left 4 Dead, for example, and then share it with all your buddies for a nearly-free LAN party.

Also, Steam Family Sharing is a totally separate entity from Steam Family Options (Steams version of parental controls).

Why would you want to do this Unlike simply letting your roommate, spouse, or child sit down and play on your computer (or using your account on their computer) Steam Family Sharing allows for the other user to retain access to their own games while gaining the ability to play yours as well as maintain their own set of Steam achievements.

You have to share your entire library (you cant share a single game or set of games).

The account owner is always given preference, but that means if you share your account with your child, only one of you can use the library at a time.

During the beta testing you could circumvent that restriction by setting one of the Steam clients to offline mode, but the security on that was tightened before the public release and the one onlineone offline trick no longer works.

You can only apply the game-by-game restrictions available in Family Options to games owned by that account; there is no way to apply restrictions to games available through the Family Sharing system.

Given that Family Sharing shares the entire library in an all-or-nothing fashion, its problematic that you cant use the parental controls found in Family Options to lock down inappropriate games delivered by Family Sharing.

In order to set up sharing you need to have access to both the computer the shared library will be accessed on as well as the account of the user youll be sharing with (you dont need their password, but you do need them there to log into the Steam service).

Again, for emphasis, you need to be on the secondary users computer, not your own.

Prior to starting the sharing process, launch the Steam client and have the user youre going to share your library with log onto Steam at least once.

This step ensures that their username is listed as a potential share option).

After the other user has logged in and back out, its time for you to log into the Steam client using the login credentials of the account (presumably yours) that has the games you wish to share.

In the settings menu look for for the Family option in the left hand panel.

Remember, Family View is a completely separate function (but you can read our guide to setting it up here ).

After youve clicked the authorization button, check up to 5 user accounts from the Authorized Accounts list to authorize them to use your Steam library on the computer.

When youre done, the Family Library Sharing panel should look like this.

Navigate to Steam - Change User to log out of the primary account and into the secondary account you just authorized with the sharing system.

The secondary account holder is free to play any of the games on the primary account as if they belonged to them.

At that point a small notification will pop up in the lower right hand corner on any computer using the shared account (besides the primary account holders, that is) notifying them that the primary account holder is requesting access to the library and they have a few minutes to save their progress and exit.

Youll see a list of the computers and users youve authorized like so.

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