i'm trying to link WhatsApp to the Mac app with their ridiculous and entirely unnecessary 'link a device' function. I get to the part where I need to scan the QR code but cannot seem to get any further. I used to be able to do this in prior versions by pointing the iPHone camera at the Mac screen and the code was recognised but it seems to no-longer be possible. I've scanned with VOCR but there don't appear to be any controls that Voiceover isn't seeing. does anyone have any experience with this or a solution?
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I kinda faced a similar problem on my Mac Studio which I use headless, meaning no display connected to it. In my case I just mirrored the screen to my TV through my Apple TV, but then there was a prompt asking whether I want to enable speech recognition covering the QR code of the WhatsApp client that I only became aware of after using Seeing AI to read the contents of the TV, and that was preventing me from scanning the QR code with the iPhone WhatsApp client. Since VoiceOver is totally unable to focus that prompt once the input focus moves out of it, my solution was to just reboot the system and retry pairing WhatsApp, which worked.