Many individuals have written in regards to the repeated display recording permission prompts in macOS 15 and I principally 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 case you commonly use an app. That looks as if an affordable compromise, and might be the place Apple’s iteration on this function will finish. However I additionally preferred 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 complete function of an app depends on a privilege, builders ought to have the ability to request that privilege throughout App Overview.
I at all times need my screenshot software to have display recording privileges, my voice memos app to have microphone privileges, and my calendar helper app to have entry to my calendars. I’m certain you will have examples you possibly can consider, too, the place even that preliminary immediate for the first permission is pointless because it’s your complete function 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 assume that this concept is overkill, however two issues occur as we’re proven increasingly safety prompts. The choices we make lose that means and we get conditioned to simply 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 means of 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 may very well be listed on App Retailer listings. Nonetheless, most individuals don’t learn that type of info.
I don’t count on Apple to make main adjustments to the permission immediate system, particularly with the tweak to display recording permission frequency coming in macOS 15.1. That stated, it’s an fascinating dialogue level, and I hope they maintain iterating on the way it works, and that concepts like this are thought of.
Dave Verwer 