Double-clicking a document to open it in its editor is quintessentially Mac, yet for the last nearly 7 years it could result in a bizarre dialog and refusal. Does any of this make sense?
privacy
Does Lockdown Mode stop writing location metadata to all new images captured by the camera, or does it merely remove it from those photos that are shared?
Presents various ways to prevent location data from being revealed to others when sharing or using images created on an iPhone and similar. This is not just for privacy, but to ensure your safety.
Although included in Privacy & Security settings, it has nothing to do with TCC or tccutil, but is run largely by its own service locationd. This is what it does, and how to control it.
Two common problems with log: all the censored contents, which can make them meaningless, and the sheer number of entries. How to use logging preferences to tackle them.
Introduced in Catalina to enable ‘privacy by user intent’, these contain header-UUID pairs, with the UUID identifying the app granted access. But UUIDs change with every restart, so can’t be used to track access prior to the current session.
How can Privacy & Security show that access by an app to a protected folder is disabled, yet the app can still access that folder? With additional details of privacy controls over storage locations.
Seven different locations examined to see how privacy protection is applied to them, including control over writing files, and listing folder contents. Some surprises too, and a new version of Insent.
One of the requirements of App Store apps is that they run in a sandbox. What does mean, and how does it affect the app? And why does privacy protection also use a sandbox?
How to gain access to the contents of privacy-protected folders even though Privacy & Security settings say that access is denied.
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