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Now that I've seen the wording of this prompt, it sound like there is another API that can be used that will not trigger this prompt? The "system private window picker"? Sounds like a way to allow an app access to a record a single window, but built into macOS, is that true? I can't find anything about it with this wording.

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AFAIK use of Apple's more recent ScreenCaptureKit should not have been triggering this alert—as opposed to the use of the deprecated Core Graphics APIs for screen capture—but it does. (I just tested this in an Xcode playground that uses SCScreenshotManager.captureImage)

If there's another "system private window picker" I haven't heard of it.

"system private window picker" refers to https://developer.apple.com/documentation/screencapturekit/s... .

Any material use of ScreenCaptureKit that doesn't involve that content sharing picker specifically will trigger this prompt. That means asking for SCShareableContent, or a couple other generic uses I forget.

Thanks for this information! Makes sense now.

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