Chrome triggering camera? How it happened to me / fix

Had an interesting thing happen earlier in the day and that is that every time I opened Chrome my camera notification came on.

I’ll save the long an unnecessary SEO improving pages of why you should be scared of the camera kicking on…

I killed all my chrome tabs, killed chrome, and every time I would come in the camera notification would kick back on.

Earlier in the day I had accessed a web page sent by car insurance people that had me line my car up and take pictures of some damage, and I highly suspect that was where this started as I had to answer yes to allowing Chrome to access the camera to take photos.

Why Chrome kept accessing the camera even with all the tabs closed, I don’t know. It has no need for it other than to report body damage to my car.

There seemed to be no extensions running, no weirdness, but no matter what I do the camera active icon pops on when opening chrome. To disable / calm my paranoia down, I went into app permissions and revoked the camera permission I had granted it earlier in the day and now things are back to normal.

Or my phone’s been hacked because T-Mobile wouldn’t get me the critical firmware update until yesterday.

Whatever the case, the fix appears to be to manually revoke permissions.