And the irony is macOS mocked windows vista a lot back in the old days. Now they become just them, but worse.
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macOS Sequoia Will Require Users to Update Screen Recording App Permissions Monthly
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Fast forward a few years and we’ll have to grant permission for the system to allow apps to use the “ask for permission” api
Then the following year we’ll have to grant permission for buttons to receive the button down and button up events when interacting with the permission api
Year after that we’ll have to grant permission to the “ask for permission” api to call itself so it can ask itself to grant permission to itself to ask for permission to run itself to call itself.
Year after that…
Extra irony is “Cancel or Allow” now seems intuitive compared to some dialogs in macOS being “Ok” and “Open System Preferences” like northernmunky posted.
If you are in an office where admin rights are removed, hopefully your Admins are competent enough to deploy a PPPC profile that allow standard users to approve screen recording. It is a very simple profile to deploy.
Well it's good to know I'm not crazy! I kept wondering why it was asking me all the time. I thought it was a bug but guess this is the new way of things. This is going to suck! You know how hard it to to get someone to authorize anything!?!? Let alone if we are trying to do maintenance or help someone unattended and the stupid prompt comes up. 🤦♂️
Personally I think this is a step backwards. You're just going to "alert fatigue" the end user and they are going to become numb to notices and just click ok, ok, ok. Then we will all start mumbling under our breath how Apple has turned to sh*% just like MS.
Hopefully as it closer to release they will give us a permanent way to disable the notices!
Personally I think this is a step backwards. You're just going to "alert fatigue" the end user and they are going to become numb to notices and just click ok, ok, ok. Then we will all start mumbling under our breath how Apple has turned to sh*% just like MS.
Hopefully as it closer to release they will give us a permanent way to disable the notices!
Yeah… I can’t even imagine a scenario where someone would install a screen recording app that bypasses all security protocols & then use it for nefarious purposes!
Aren’t all people that use computers good people??!!
They should be able to install it on someone’s computer and set it to the “never ever let the user know what is happening on their computer” setting!
That’s a completely solid and viable opinion (as confirmed by 40 clever MacRumors users!).
/healthy dose of sarcasm (disdain?)
Anyone that regularly does remote meetings with vendors, is in sales, consulting or support is absolutely going to hate this. Just to meet virtually with different vendors at work I have to Zoom, Google Meet, Webex, and MS Teams installed. Having random reauthorizations pop up on top of random updates when you're already 2 minutes late for a meeting is going to drive tons of people crazy.
For business IT teams, there needs to, at the very least, be a way to permanently authorize an App with a Configuration Profile via Apple Configurator or MDM.
For business IT teams, there needs to, at the very least, be a way to permanently authorize an App with a Configuration Profile via Apple Configurator or MDM.
In our case we need to fill out a form to request access to the screen recording feature in Teams from time x to time x on date z and also have to state a reason why to get it approved. We also can't send attachments via teams unless it's screen shots, which you can just copy and paste into a conversation. Super annoying
As a business IT administrator, i'd suggest that this is a good thing for the average end user. Plenty of people inadvertently end up granting permission for all sorts of things to do all sorts of nefarious things, having this reviewed periodically is not a bad thing.
This is screen recording we're talking about which can steal banking info, etc.
I don't understand why you need to do screen recording while updating the software on a Mac?
Also, while doing support, the user should approve every time.
Are you using Mac minis in server racks?
No, Macs are first and foremost for non-technical people who just want to use a computer and wants Apple to help them be secure in their computing.
If you like opening up a terminal window, the Mac and the Apple ecosystem isn't optimised for your use.
What O/S are you running? Are you running? Microsoft Teams is one of the applications that has not yet adopted the new API and entitlement. So it I subject to the prompts. With Beta 6, the prompts are only supposed to be once per month, so you may not have had enough time to see more than one prompt.
This appears to apply to apps like Teams and Zoom that can share individual windows... if I'm reading it correctly, it doesn't seem to apply to apps like TeamViewer or similar, or as noted DisplayLink software, that always share the full screen.
We're already doing this now when an app is either endorsed by Apple, or you click "Open Anyway", to run the code.
But if the button is a Pantone color (which you had to license, or the button would turn invisible), the OS must query your mouse subscription to ensure that you're approved for your preferred click button.
Of course, you selected that particular application because you try to avoid Adobe, the premier imaging company (with software installed on all government computers), which has an exclusive with Nikon, which makes the only lens implants covered by your insurance plan (because in California, some dude wearing glasses got cancer) and you'd have to subscribe to Adobe Creation Cloud, or they turn cloudy (unless pointed at Adobe's subscription renewal form). Go 'head. Change jobs. Welcome to Brazil!
And Linux will still be worse.
This is one of the problems. The exact details of who can apply for the entitlement to avoid the prompt is still up in the air. I have raised the possibility we will need to remote our Remote Support Jump client if they can't get an entitlement.
And, yea, DisplayLink Manager is another issue. Not sure how we are going to handle it.
Perhaps a method that savvy users easily could access but non-savvy folks could not?
I mean a more comprehensive privacy permissions dashboard, not just a settings panel.
Agreed. The settings panel is not organized in a simple to understand, prioritized way that the people who could most benefit from this kind of oversight would be able to use.
Exactly. If the aim is better security for less informed users then making these things easier to understand and revisit is infinitely better than hammering them with prompts when they’re in the middle of doing stuff.