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Amnesia App Offers Easy Way to Get Rid of Monthly Access Reminders for Screen Capture Apps
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MacOS's security theatre is completely broken, and the leadership of the UI teams responsible need to be moved on to a different part of Apple so their work can be undone.
It does run, it just warns the user that the code is old and unsafe and that the user will be reminded once a month. There is no reason other than laziness that the developers of "Jump desktop" hasn't kept up-to-date with Apples's guidelines.
MacOS and iOS are really starting to feel like Windows with how many pop ups and warnings you have to click through.
In the newest beta they implemented a way to set this via MDM profiles
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macOS Sequoia 15.1 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
Mobile Device Management
New Features
- MDM profiles can use the new key ‘forceBypassScreenCaptureAlert’, which allows owners of managed devices to opt out of user notifications for content capture technologies. (131327961)
You mean they fixed it in 15.1 ?
I've been running the betas since beginning of August, now running the final release, but it's been terrible since the betas. I didn't worry, I thought it was just a beta thing.
Moriarting?
Seriously this is hilarious. We've come full circle.
I really don't know what Apple is thinking here, there is already a persistent system notification in the Menu Bar. And the error itself says it wants to bypass the system screen picker. Then fix the damn system screen picker so everyone doesn't need to bypass it.
Interesting. I wonder if this is so that employers can monitor what staff are doing on company-managed computers without the end-user opting in?? 🤔In the newest beta they implemented a way to set this via MDM profiles
macOS Sequoia 15.1 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
I don't think it's possible to deactivate the menubar icons for active screen sharing, microphone and camera with MDM. So even if remote management is enabled on a machine, the user would be notified when someone connects.
How to actually do this with a profile, what options need to be set to, basically, how?In the newest beta they implemented a way to set this via MDM profiles
macOS Sequoia 15.1 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
Mobile Device Management
New Features
- MDM profiles can use the new key ‘forceBypassScreenCaptureAlert’, which allows owners of managed devices to opt out of user notifications for content capture technologies. (131327961)
You can only deploy it from an MDM, not as a stand alone profile. This is a compromise to Enterprise organization that application such as Bomgar and Jump Desk, or applications that may not be able to adopt the new APIs in time, to suppress the prompts or their users.
We are blocking Sequoia for 90 days anyway, at least until 15.1 arrives.
Two questions:
1. Is there an application to prevent "Messages" (formerly iMessage) application to ask for username and password every few days?
2. Likewise for the Mac asking for the iCloud username and password three times in a row each time that the Mac is cold booted or rebooted, or when "Apple - System Settings" is opened. Three times in a row each time! And iCloud is disabled!!!
It is really frustrating.
1. Is there an application to prevent "Messages" (formerly iMessage) application to ask for username and password every few days?
2. Likewise for the Mac asking for the iCloud username and password three times in a row each time that the Mac is cold booted or rebooted, or when "Apple - System Settings" is opened. Three times in a row each time! And iCloud is disabled!!!
It is really frustrating.
Exactly. If a supposedly critical alert can be easily disabled by editing a plist, then what’s the point? Malware can easily achieve the same result. Very bad design. Very bad execution.
I went into the link to check out the plist editing procedures, fully expected a sudo command in Terminal, turns out it doesn't take that. Does it require SIP being disabled before hand?
If someone lists another ten year-old app that no longer has an active developer supporting it, are you going to say the user is lazy to keep up by not changing to modern software then?
If someone is using a 10 year old app without support they'd better start looking for alternatives because Rosetta won't stay in macOS forever. It has already been 4 years, and as soon as Intel support is dropped from macOS, Rosetta will go too.
In case it helps anyone, I created a little commandline tool to help manage and block these alerts:
https://github.com/luckman212/screencapture-nag-remover
It supports 15.0 as well as 15.1 beta via an MDM profile that leverages the new
https://github.com/luckman212/screencapture-nag-remover
It supports 15.0 as well as 15.1 beta via an MDM profile that leverages the new
forceBypassScreenCaptureAlert key (which can permanently stop the nags).