Permissions
What the OS asks for, why each one is needed, and what breaks without it.
MiPrep asks for the narrowest set of permissions that lets it hear a call. Grant them once, before your first interview — not during one.
macOS
| Permission | Why | Without it |
|---|---|---|
| Microphone | Hears your side of the conversation. | No transcript of anything you say. |
| Screen Recording | macOS routes system audio — the interviewer's voice — through the same permission as screen capture. It is also what reads an on-screen coding question. | The interviewer is not heard at all. This is the one that silently ruins a session. |
Screen Recording is the permission people skip because of its name. On macOS there is no way to capture another app's audio without it.
Grant it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording, and make sure the toggle beside MiPrep AI is on.
Windows
| Permission | Why | Without it |
|---|---|---|
| Microphone | Hears your side of the conversation. | No transcript of anything you say. |
Windows has no screen-recording prompt — system audio is captured through the audio stack directly. The check list is genuinely shorter here.
The recording indicators
While a session is live, macOS shows its orange microphone dot and, because system audio is being captured, the purple screen-recording dot. Windows shows its own microphone indicator.
These cannot be suppressed by any application, and MiPrep does not try. They are the same indicators Zoom, Teams and Meet raise — the ones already lit during any call where somebody is sharing a screen.