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How to Find Out Which App is Using Your Webcam on Windows 10

How to Find Out Which App is Using Your Webcam on Windows 10

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In case you need to stop it

How to find out which app is using your webcam

I will explain a very effective method to find out which app is using your webcam. This way you can prevent it from being used without your permission, or simply close an app to free up your webcam for use in another application.

For some reason, Windows 10 has a hard time using your webcam in multiple apps. In most cases, webcams light up when they think they’re being used by an app and are unusable in other apps. Let’s take a look at how to identify which app is using our webcam so we can stop it.

To find our webcam we need to understand what its name is in the device manager. From there we can search our running processes to find matches to our webcam.