Apple has at least somewhat relented on a privacy pop-up during macOS Sequoia testing, meaning it no longer appears as frequently as it did in the beta.
This is the somewhat annoying screen recording privacy warning that appears weekly (for affected apps that use screen recording) and after every Mac restart.
However, as 9to5Mac Reports say that with the latest developer beta 6 of macOS Sequoia, the prompt has been changed to only appear once per month. This means you won’t have to approve screen recording permissions every week for every app that needs them, and the change also prevents you from being bothered in the same way every time you restart your Mac.
The new prompt 9to5Mac spotted reads: “[App name] asks to bypass the system private window chooser and gain direct access to your screen and audio. This will allow [app name] to record your screen and system audio, including any personal or sensitive information that may be visible or audible.”
You will then be given the option to enable ‘Allow for one month’ (so you won’t see the popup again for a month), or you can choose to ‘Open System Settings’. You will then be taken to the Screen Recording permissions preferences.
The change appears to be exclusive to the macOS Sequoia 15.0 developer beta 6 and not to the Sequoia 15.1 branch, the developer beta that finally has some Apple Intelligence featuresWe also saw the prompt in the Sequoia 15.0 public beta.
It seems that developers can’t bypass this monthly prompt. This notification affects several screenshot tools and of course apps that you share your screen with (like Zoom or Slack).
That said, it may still be possible for developers to find a way to prevent the warning from appearing in their app, but it’s unclear what that might be. 9to5Mac even points to a possible trick that developers could use (a “Persistent Content Capture” right), but Apple has yet to provide any guidance on how this might work, or any guidance at all.
While this is a step in the right direction towards at least making the popup less frequent, there should be a way for macOS users to permanently grant a specific app permission to record their screen. Since the change is still being tested, we’re hoping that Apple can tweak the idea further or at least give developers some more guidance on what they can do to potentially bypass it.
