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title: Camera permission flow
description: "\"Describes how PingOne Recognize authorization and enrollment handles camera permission requests.\""
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# Camera permission flow

By default, PingOne Recognize Web SDK displays a camera permissions page during authentication and enrollment. The page explains the need for permissions and blocks further action when the user declines camera access.

The access check uses the `Permissions.query` method to determine camera access. Learn more in the Mozilla [reference page](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Permissions/query).

If the Permissions API is not supported in the user's browser, PingOne Recognize uses an alternate approach that displays the camera permissions check the first time they open a page using the Web SDK. Results are saved in browser session storage.

You can skip the permissions check by setting the session storage value directly, either programmatically or manually.

The `@keyless/sdk-web` package exposes the `setKeylessCameraPermissionStorageItem` function. Use this to set the `state` key to one of the following values:

| Value     | Description                     |
| --------- | ------------------------------- |
| `denied`  | Access to the camera is denied  |
| `granted` | Access to the camera is allowed |

The session storage value can also be set manually. To do this, update the `kl-camera-permission` key.

To avoid common errors, you should use the `setKeylessCameraPermissionStorageItem` function instead of setting the value manually.