A row reading "Permission denied. Please enable in System Settings." won't respond to pressing Grant Access again. Use Open Settings instead. That's what it's there for.
Junior can raise the microphone prompt itself, but not the system audio or accessibility ones. macOS provides no way to ask for those, so the only route is System Settings. That's why Junior sends you there rather than prompting.
- Press Open Settings on the row that's blocked.
- Find Junior in the list and switch it on.
- Return to Junior. Each row updates to Granted on its own; Refresh status forces a re-check.
Two things that catch people:
- A permission that reverts after you set it means a policy is putting it back. That's your IT team.
- Development builds appear separately. If you're running a build supplied directly by Junior, macOS may list it as its own entry. Grant the one that's actually running.
Questions
Grant Access does nothing at all.
For system audio and accessibility on a Mac, that's expected: there's no prompt to raise, so use Open Settings. For the microphone, a button that does nothing usually means macOS has already recorded a decision, so it too has to be changed in Settings.
My firm manages my laptop and permissions keep reverting.
Then a policy is setting them, and nothing you do on the device will hold. Your IT team has to allow Junior centrally. Tell them which permission it's (microphone, system audio, or accessibility), because they're granted separately.
Do I need the accessibility permission to record?
No. It's only used to notice that you've joined a meeting. Without it, recording works exactly as well. You start recordings yourself. See when Junior spots a meeting on its own.