Many individuals have written concerning the repeated display recording permission prompts in macOS 15 and I largely agree with the unfavorable protection.
There’s some probably excellent news coming in 15.1, with the promise of even much less frequent prompts in case you recurrently use an app. That looks like an inexpensive compromise, and might be the place Apple’s iteration on this function will finish. However I additionally appreciated Matthias Gansrigler’s current thought about permitting apps to request default permissions.
The complete publish is value a learn, however the gist of it’s that if your entire function of an app depends on a privilege, builders ought to be capable of request that privilege throughout App Assessment.
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 may have examples you’ll be able to consider, too, the place even that preliminary immediate for the first permission is pointless because it’s your entire 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 would possibly assume that this concept is overkill, however two issues occur as we’re proven increasingly safety prompts. The selections we make lose that means and we get conditioned to simply accept all the things. Second, for apps the place the permission is really necessary 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 folks into Settings, besides, it may 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 folks assume each app can do all the things once more? Default permissions could possibly be listed on App Retailer listings. Nevertheless, most individuals don’t learn that sort of info.
I don’t anticipate 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 attention-grabbing dialogue level, and I hope they hold iterating on the way it works, and that concepts like this are thought of.
Dave Verwer  
