A row reading "Permission denied. Please enable in System Settings." will not respond to pressing Grant Access again. Use Open Settings instead. That is what it is 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 is why Junior sends you there rather than prompting.
- Press Open Settings on the row that is 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 is your IT team.
- Development builds appear separately. If you are running a build supplied directly by Junior, macOS may list it as its own entry. Grant the one that is actually running.
Questions
Grant Access does nothing at all.
For system audio and accessibility on a Mac, that is expected: there is 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 is (microphone, system audio, or accessibility), because they are granted separately.
Do I need the accessibility permission to record?
No. It is only used to notice that you have joined a meeting. Without it, recording works exactly as well. You start recordings yourself. See when Junior spots a meeting on its own.