If the video app you’re using doesn’t have its own controls, you’re out of luck.Īll hope is not lost, though. There’s no System Preferences adjustment for the FaceTime camera on a Mac. Just as annoying as the lackluster hardware is the fact that Apple doesn’t give users any built-in control to improve quality themselves. The company that made it such a priority nearly 20 years ago with the iSight camera, and brought video calls to our collective consciousness on phones with FaceTime, seems content to sell expensive computers with frustratingly awful webcams, year after year.

When it comes to video conferencing on a Mac, Apple seems frustratingly in the dark.