Apple Says Fix Planned for 'You Do Not Have Permission to Open the Application' Error When Using a Scanner on Mac [Updated]

[ShortFatGuy]

For me the problem didn't appear till 11.5.1. I'm glad I've got an iMac still at 11.5, so I can continue scanning the family photos.
I guess I should be happy Apple is at least acknowledging the problem.

 

[rafark]

Reminds me of that late 80’s driver issue live on stage when a Microsoft presenter right beside Bill Gates crashed Windows by plugging in a printer = blue screen of death. 😂

Wow, that’s hilarious!

They should’ve said it was a beta build and these things are expected to happen because it’s not a production build. (Regardless if it was a lie!) bill kind of said it but I feel more emphasis should’ve been made.

 

[Premium1]

Just download HP Smart app for macos and use that’s you don’t scan using the build in setting on the hp printers

The HP app is hot garbage. Weeks later still can’t get my brand new printer to wirelessly connect. Have to plug it in to print anything.

 

[mariusignorello]

The Brother iPrint&Scan app is excellent for our ADF desktop scanner and does more than image capture is capable of. We can program macros that automatically detect document size, compress and place the document in a certain folder and that thing scans 50 pages a minute. Perfect for loan signing work!

Image Capture and AirPrint both suck with automatic document/paper size detection. You’re forced to pick a size for the entire document but what if you need to print both letter and legal? Two-paper-size jobs on a 150+ page document x2 copies…hell no. You’ll be there for an hour.

 

[AxiomaticRubric]

Obviously the software Apple acquired from NeXT was great, but I think they also got a lot of great engineers and managers out of that. In the time since, they've lost all the talent. Now it seems like they're run by business people who are more interested in pumping stuff out than actually having it be any good.

A big part of this is an over-reliance on contractors to cut costs, which is becoming very common for corporations. The major downside vs. reliance on in-house development teams is a dramatic loss of quality, and insufficient quality assurance. Contractors are interested only in getting projects completed and paid. Quality takes the back seat.

The bean counters took over Apple (just like Steve Jobs warned us about), and this is what happens.

 

[yesiamroy]

Coincidentally I just had this with my Dell Multifunctional 30 minutes ago. Just used the notes app as a replacement. But anyway, would be nice to get a time-frame, error is also present in Monterey.

 

[Freeangel1]

Honestly this is why having an APPLE silicon Mac is so dangerous or very limiting.
M1 Macs are no faster than an 11th generation i9 Intel processor
In fact an 11th Generation Intel i9 processor BEATS an M1.

So why close yourself off on an M1 Mac that cant run Windows 10 or 11?
Then things like Printing of Faxing or hooking up your iPhone on the windows side would JUST WORK.

 

[JoB4031]

Ok, since the topic of scanners has come up. What are people's recommendations for good MacOS scanners? iOS support is a bonus.

The last one I had used a SCSI port, and now I am getting pressure from the co-inhabitant that we need to declutter our archives. We have boxes of looseleaf documents of many, many sizes.

I would like to avoid a printer, if possible. We have a Brother printer that works well enough and yet I still hate them.

I have been using a Fujitsu scan snap for several years now. It has just worked for me, though I haven’t tried the latest beta MacOS.

 

[2540497]

Need to fix management! Apple are bruised and on the ropes and it isn’t pretty. Doesn’t sound like iPhone 13 is going to compete well against Google and Samsung either. Tim needs to go!

 

[Johnny907]

When are they going to announce a fix for “you do not have permission to snoop my photos on my device?”

 

[seek3r]

Yesterday, I applied Monterey 12 beta 21A5304g, and I lost all admin rights. Although my Mac stills says I am an admin, and I can create new admins, when I look at permissions on the drive, I have only read access and when i attempt to add myself, I receive "The operation can't be completed because you don't have the necessary permissions." Thoughts how to recover without reimaging? Yesterday I ran migration assistant, removed the existing admin account, and had MA add a new admin (same name) and restore all 1.2 GB of data, at the end - still no access. Outlook and many other apps are crashing as they don't have permissions to write temp files.

I mean, it *is* a beta, file the bug…

 

[Bustycat]

Honestly this is why having an APPLE silicon Mac is so dangerous or very limiting.
M1 Macs are no faster than an 11th generation i9 Intel processor
In fact an 11th Generation Intel i9 processor BEATS an M1.

So why close yourself off on an M1 Mac that cant run Windows 10 or 11?
Then things like Printing of Faxing or hooking up your iPhone on the windows side would JUST WORK.

Do you know i9-11900K’s TDP?

 

[Abazigal]

Honestly this is why having an APPLE silicon Mac is so dangerous or very limiting.
M1 Macs are no faster than an 11th generation i9 Intel processor
In fact an 11th Generation Intel i9 processor BEATS an M1.

So why close yourself off on an M1 Mac that cant run Windows 10 or 11?
Then things like Printing of Faxing or hooking up your iPhone on the windows side would JUST WORK.

Find me a laptop with the form factor of the MacBook Air, which contains an i9 processor and can run it at full speed without throttling for 9 hours consecutively.

 

[Kung gu]

Find me a laptop with the form factor of the MacBook Air, which contains an i9 processor and can run it at full speed without throttling for 9 hours consecutively.

meh at least on most other laptops you can replace ssd's/RAM if it ever fails. On the M1 Mac you have to pay Apple $700 for a board replacement. You ARE forced to pay Apple's stupidly high repair prices.

M1 is speed is great but it comes at the cost of upgradablity and repairablity.

The 11th gen i9 beats the M1.

 

[Abazigal]

meh at least on most other laptops you can replace ssd's/RAM if it ever fails. On the M1 Mac you have to pay Apple $700 for a board replacement. You ARE forced to pay Apple's stupidly high repair prices.

M1 is speed is great but it comes at the cost of upgradablity and repairablity.

I will take my chances. PC failures are typically more due to bad logic boards or water damage than ram or storage issues, so you are paying for an expensive repair / replacement either way.

And I am probably less likely to toss my M1 MBA against the wall in frustration compared to a windows laptop, so that’s one less reason it may get damaged as well.

 

[Smooch]

I cannot use the scanning feature of my (AirPrint-enabled) HP CM1415fnw since Big Sur... It's so incredibly disappointing, scanning is quite an important feature of the machine. The setup used to be flawless on macOS. I was always able to use Preview for scanning. Now none of the scanning features are detected, no matter what drivers is used, not even the bloated HP software that you're supposed to install from the Mac App Store works. I can print sure, but no scanning whatsoever.

I know it's a deprecated machine, but it works perfectly fine and it was really quite expensive...

I am now using an older MacBook with Catalina to scan... I mean wtf... 😒

 

[Smooch]

Apple: so who is using scanners nowadays?
...
Apple: Anyone?
...
Apple: OK, we wont bother fixing this, not worth the time and money. Let's make new emojis.

You're joking and emoji definitions are not solely dictated by Apple, but consider animoji and it becomes way too real...

The beauty of the apple ecosystem used to be simplicity and privacy. Now, not so much. Simple things like printing, scanning and, yes, storing, are all now problematic with apple.

Yes! Some really great things about the area of Mac OS X are now becoming iffy. Have you tried using multiple displays recently? The wallpapers keep resetting somehow, the Dock randomly jumps to other screens and the M1 Thunderbolt controller doesn't even support more than one display... Did anyone mention the bug where Mail keeps popping up? Third-party software for macOS hasn't been great lately either with a few exceptions, it's becoming a lost art...

The ease of things like scanning was what made me not ever use Windows again all those years ago...
This post turned out to be a bit more ranty that I intended to, but still...

 

[orderoftheditch]

I don’t work for HP but have been working as Mac software support for 15 years. One of the common fixes to users issues, or advices to avoid them, was “do not use or install the rubbish software which comes with your printer or scanner”. Apple built-in drivers worked just fine. This is the first or second time in Mac history where there is such issue, and has probably something to do with Apple tightening screws on security. People who want to run to Windows/Android because of this need to seriously CTFO or, bye. Oh and BTW, coincidentally, happy user of HP all-in-one laser printers and would always recommend them to everyone.

My understanding is that HP Smart for Mac is a cloud app that connects to the HP printer over the internet, it isn’t a set of drivers.
HP Smart is also available on iOS/Android etc and works the same way.

 

[Jupiter9]

As a result, the quality of Windows has massively improved over the past 5 years.

*laughs in Windows 11*

 

[opeter]

You're joking and emoji definitions are not solely dictated by Apple, but consider animoji and it becomes way too real...

Of course I am joking. But still not too far from reality. Yes, you are right, animoji would have been better... anyway, the basic idea still stands.

 

[Mymychickenpie]

When you see the screen shot and look over at your model of printer to see that it might as well be your screen shot… 🤦🏻‍♂️

 

[dwaite]

Meanwhile, Microsoft had the opposite happen. They had been run by business people, and now they're full of technical leadership. As a result, the quality of Windows has massively improved over the past 5 years.

IMHO, it is that Windows lost internally. Microsoft always had historical in-fighting between their various teams, especially the Office vs Platform team. Now that Microsoft has pivoted to hosting/subscription revenue with Azure and O365 and that the PC marketplace is shrinking as people diversify their hardware spending to include phones and tablets, the platform team doesn't get to call the shots.

 

[BoyRacer]

Hi 4jasontv!

For document AND photo scanning, the Epson FastFoto FF-680W has been working really well for me on:
- MacOS 11 Big Sur
- iOS 14.7.1
- iPadOS 14.7.1
- Android 11 on Samsung S6 Tablet
- Android 11 on OnePlus 7T
- Windows 10
- whereas ChromeOS is USELESS

I use the Epson DocumentScan app available on the Apple AppStore, Google Play and the Epson Print and Scan app available on the Windows Store.

FastFoto FF-680W Wireless High-speed Photo Scanning System | Products | Epson Canada

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[dwaite]

Did anyone mention the bug where Mail keeps popping up?

Let me guess, using Mail.app for a Gmail account?

 

[JKAussieSkater]

…and yes, Windows has a stellar record when it comes down to user security and permissions 🙄

To what is your sarcasm referring?

Security is a level playing field and always has been, due to the fact that human programmers have difficulties trying to fathom creative exploits during the coding process. This is more evident now-than-ever with the rise of no-click exploits on iOS devices, indicating Apple's OS code was never really superior, just merely under-targeted.

Secondly, permissions problems have always been prevalent in UNIX related operating systems, including macOS. They seemed to be easily corrupted in the past. Personally, I have never had permission errors with Windows, and they've never been the source of problems when I've repaired other people's Windows computers.

So I remain unconvinced by your implication that Windows has an equal-to-worse record when comparing security and permissions. I can only say that security is probably equal.