Colour picker not working on M1 Mac

[James Mcilwraith]

The colour picker doesn't seem to work properly in either Publisher V2 or Designer V2.
It works fine within the application but outside of the app it only shows and selects the colours from the underlying wallpaper not the colours of any webpage or colour swatch on top of the wallpaper. The Apple color picker works as expected. The Windows version seems to work fine as well.

Apart from that love the new version.

[GaryLearnTech]

Hi @James Mcilwraith It sounds a bit like you skipped the system prompt to allow each app to "record" the screen.  Maybe you accidentally clicked Deny?

 

Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Screen Recording and scroll down until you find the entry for each v2 app.  I'm guessing that if you tick the check box for each app then you'll be in business.

[James Mcilwraith]

Thanks Gary that solved my problem. Surprising that it was picking colours off my wallpaper rather than picking nothing at all.