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For the first time Apple responded to my bug report through the Feedback Assistant and requested more information, so kind of feel involved in this :)

So the bug was about the screen recording permission needed for some apps, Shottr specifically. Despite me allowing screen recording previously macOS Sequoia kept asking me to go into the settings and give the permission. According to Apple, that should have had happened once a week, so I gave a follow up feedback about definitely me not wanting to repeat this more than once. Fingers crossed I won't have to fiddle with permission when taking a screenshot.

But unfortunately it appears that they only changed the policy to do it once a month: https://a.dropoverapp.com/cloud/download/50dcbf08-a812-4ef4-...

Still better than once a week and the final UI is fine, but IMHO it should have an option to disable this behavior.

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A lot of people complained by this, including the news media. I can guarantee it wasn't your bug report that spurred the change.

Yeah, probably but that's not the point.

Perhaps they could've done something like...

    sudo tccutil disable_monthly_screen_recording_prompt [bundle_id]

tccutil(1) is already a thing, which by its name you'd think would give you full CLI control over the macOS permission system (TCC), but strangely it only has one command as of now: "reset" (in Sonoma at least, haven't checked Sequoia yet).

> For the first time Apple responded to my bug report through the Feedback Assistant and requested more information, so kind of feel involved in this :)

Same here! I think it was re: locatedb not working? Although I was much more interested in my Feedback re: why dtrace was causing crashes after sleep.

As much as I wish Apple were a more open company, if they just responded to Bug Reports, that would be amazing!

That looks a little frustrating. I wonder if there is a way around it?

It's especially frustrating since you always stumble upon it when you have something else in mind, this your flow is broken to re-confirm something you did a month ago.

I'm not aware of a fix, hopefully more people will write a feedback about it.

Does it mean macOS will periodically ask me again and again that Teams/Zoom/etc need screen recording permissions? As if I didn’t have enough pop-ups and prompts in my life already

I think that's the case. It's doing it for Shottr(screenshots app) and Ice(toolbar management app), the two apps I regularly use and require that permission.

It seems like they could just give you a notification reminder once a month that apps have that permission, without forcing you to grant it over and over

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