How to completely remove OBS Virtual Camera

[Leo Padre]

There was a plugin installed on the camera. I uninstalled OBS, uninstalled the plugin, and the camera does not work. The OBS camera is displayed everywhere instead of the standard Mac camera
The /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL folder is empty.
All OBS folders are deleted. I tried installing the OBS and completely uninstalling it again, it didn't help.

Used the commands:
sudo rm -rf /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/obs-mac-virtualcam.plugin
sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/obs-studio/plugins/obs-mac-virtualcam
Also didn't help

 

[LunarOne]

Did you ever find out how to remove it? OBS virtual camera is preventing me using my real camera in Chrome applications and even after removing OBS I still have the OBS logo every time I try to access an app that uses the webcam. In some of them I can choose my phone as a webcam, but in others I only have OBS which isn't even installed any more. This is driving me nuts!

 

[Goldoche]

I have the same problem. OBS logo appears everywhere (Zoom, Teams, Photo Booth, Hand Mirror, etc.), even after a complete uninstallation. I can't use my monitor's built-in camera anymore, I can only select my iPhone camera.

 

[Goldoche]

I managed to fix the problem on Mac. To remove OBS Virtual Camera, I restarted in Recovery Mode and temporarily disabled System Integrity Protection (SIP). You might need an internet connection to re-enable SIP at the end. See the two attached files for all the details

And if you don't want to copy/paste my commands, you can also ask an AI: “Can’t remove OBS virtual camera on Mac. How to disable system extensions through Recovery Mode?”

Now I just need to figure out how to reinstall OBS without this problem happening again…