My setup: Rebel T7 and Macbook Pro 2021 with M1 Pro on MacOS Sonoma (14.3.1)
The problem: For the last few years, the connection when using my T7 as a webcam has been very unreliable. I would have to power cycle, kill app and restart, plug/unplug, start/stop the camera, try new cables, switch from Facetime camera back to EOS webcam, and just generally mess with the camera to get it to work. Most of my coworkers associate me with the dreaded "red X" backwards EOS Camera image. I was using EOS Webcam Utility 2.0.30 and it was buggy, but I could limp by. I dealt with the Apple privacy update and was constantly searching these forums for help.
Final straw: After upgrading EOS Webcam Utility 2.1.18, which promised Sonoma support, everything broke. Could not connect at all to EOS Webcam Utility. Could not connect to EOS Utility 3. So I could not even get pictures off the camera anymore. I had to uninstall EOS Webcam Utility 2.1.18 just to be able to connect regular EOS utility. Then, I tried to downgrade and reinstall 2.0.30 again, but now it appears broken as well. Hours wasted trying different combos, searching online for help, and trying to get the darn thing to stream.
I'm done with using Canon cameras for any sort of webcam use, and in general pretty unlikely to purchase another Canon camera due to the very poor SW support. I just pulled out a Logitech c920 camera that had been sitting in the closet for literally 5+ years, and just plugged it in and it worked perfectly right out of the box. Zero SW downloads required, no fussing around. The image quality isn't quite as good, but at this point it's worlds better than a red X.
