Many individuals have written concerning the repeated display recording permission prompts in macOS 15 and I principally agree with the unfavourable protection.
There’s some probably excellent news coming in 15.1, with the promise of even much less frequent prompts when you usually use an app. That looks as if an inexpensive compromise, and might be the place Apple’s iteration on this characteristic will finish. However I additionally favored Matthias Gansrigler’s latest thought about permitting apps to request default permissions.
The complete put up is price a learn, however the gist of it’s that if all the goal of an app depends on a privilege, builders ought to have the ability to request that privilege throughout App Evaluation.
I all the time need my screenshot instrument 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 could have examples you’ll be able to consider, too, the place even that preliminary immediate for the first permission is pointless because it’s all the goal 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 can be nice at lowering permission immediate overload.
You may assume that this concept is overkill, however two issues occur as we’re proven increasingly more safety prompts. The choices we make lose which means and we get conditioned to just accept every part. Second, for apps the place the permission is actually essential 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 way of the settings app. Sure, apps can select to deep hyperlink folks into Settings, besides, it will possibly flip a pleasing on boarding expertise right into a chore.
The draw back, in fact, is consistency. If the working system stops asking for person permission for some apps, will folks assume each app can do every part once more? Default permissions might be listed on App Retailer listings. Nevertheless, most individuals don’t learn that sort of data.
I don’t count on Apple to make main modifications to the permission immediate system, particularly with the tweak to display recording permission frequency coming in macOS 15.1. That mentioned, it’s an fascinating dialogue level, and I hope they preserve iterating on the way it works, and that concepts like this are thought-about.
Dave Verwer  