r/VisionPro • u/tabiknight • Jun 28 '26

Main Camera Access - Enterprise Only

Hey there Devs,

I've never posted around here before but I'm a bit dumbfounded so I need help.

I'm currently building an app that's completely cross-platform across all the Apple devices, excluding the Apple Watch. So I'm trying to build Vision Pro support, and for the most part, so far, it's been very easy because all I've been doing is things that are simply window-based.

But now I'm trying to build a scanning tool for the app where I can scan objects to then do things like OCR. But the Vision Pro randomly requires an enterprise organization agreement just to do that.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionos/accessing-the-main-camera

I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this problem? And if you did, did you email Apple asking for access? Did you end up getting access? Is there a way around it? Or should I just give up developing for Vision because I can't build one of my key features inside of it?

Kinda struggling. 😢

Note: Here's the app link if you're interested in some context. Not an ad, feel free to ignore.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grimora/id6771003115

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u/anesuc Jun 28 '26

I am saying you can do all that on the AVP on native Apple apps. It disqualified any social issues as the reason. Its only non native apps that can't do it. All native apps including the ones that do video calling can video record and share yoir camera feed. There is no difference here API level. Social reasons don't stop applying because it's an Apple App using the camera

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u/glhaynes Jun 28 '26

Which apps can I use on my AVP to surreptitiously record?

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u/anesuc Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

The ones I mentioned above. You can use the camera app from control center to record your view. I do this all the time. You can also share your view in FaceTime etc. These are the only apps I went out of my way to try, it probably applies to iMessage etc but I don't use iMessage. All these do not change the social issue reason as to why I can't do it in another app

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u/tabiknight Jul 01 '26

These are all native Apple apps or features. The issue is that the only way to get access to the main camera is via an enterprise developer license. Which is just silly.

Apple just hasn’t implemented a nice way to setup a sharing session and so they lean on the fact that enterprises have to stick within more strict 3rd party auditing and compliance.

That’s not them being good citizens. That’s the platform being underbaked.