Many individuals have written in regards to the repeated display screen recording permission prompts in macOS 15 and I largely agree with the destructive protection.
There’s some doubtlessly excellent news coming in 15.1, with the promise of even much less frequent prompts in the event you repeatedly use an app. That looks like an affordable compromise, and might be the place Apple’s iteration on this function will finish. However I additionally appreciated Matthias Gansrigler’s current concept about permitting apps to request default permissions.
The entire put up is value a learn, however the gist of it’s that if your entire objective of an app relies on a privilege, builders ought to be capable to request that privilege throughout App Evaluation.
I all the time need my screenshot software to have display screen recording privileges, my voice memos app to have microphone privileges, and my calendar helper app to have entry to my calendars. I’m positive you could have examples you possibly can consider, too, the place even that preliminary immediate for the first permission is pointless because it’s your entire objective of the app.
I’d nonetheless like to have the ability to go to settings and switch off these default permissions, however having them on by default could be nice at lowering permission immediate overload.
You may suppose that this concept is overkill, however two issues occur as we’re proven increasingly more safety prompts. The selections we make lose which means and we get conditioned to just accept all the things. Second, for apps the place the permission is actually vital to the app’s operation, if the person does deny the privilege then they’re both left with a ineffective app or a messy journey by the settings app. Sure, apps can select to deep hyperlink individuals into Settings, besides, it might flip a pleasing on boarding expertise right into a chore.
The draw back, after all, is consistency. If the working system stops asking for person permission for some apps, will individuals assume each app can do all the things once more? Default permissions could possibly be listed on App Retailer listings. Nonetheless, most individuals don’t learn that type of data.
I don’t anticipate Apple to make main modifications to the permission immediate system, particularly with the tweak to display screen recording permission frequency coming in macOS 15.1. That mentioned, it’s an attention-grabbing dialogue level, and I hope they maintain iterating on the way it works, and that concepts like this are thought of.