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How to disable annoying screen recording prompt in macOS Sequoia

In the latest version of macOS, Apple introduced a new prompt where it will notify users that there are applications that are using the screen recording feature on the Mac. It is understandable, due to Apple’s public perception of being security and privacy-friendly, that a prompt like this can be helpful for regular users to notify them of apps that are using the screen recording feature on their Mac.

The issue is that there are quite a few applications that make use of the screen recording feature, even if they don’t actually record the screen, to work on a Mac, such as the DisplayLink manager software which is used to manage external screens that use the DisplayLink technology so that Macs can have more than one external screen. Other applications, like Logitech’s G HUB software to manager gaming-class peripherals also require this feature.

It can get annoying to have this prompt appear, which by default is every month. It is a weird decision on the part of Apple, that this feature cannot be disabled unless you adjust a setting via Terminal.

Thanks to Jeff Johnson by way of Ricci Adams, there is a way to disable the annoying prompt.

The way to disable or bypass the prmpt from appearing and requesting you to allow screen and audio recording access limits you to Allow For One Month.

Thanks to Ricci Adams, there is plist file located in a user’s Library folder that can be modified so that the prompts never appear again¹. Before modifying the file you need to first need to access Privacy & Security within the Settings app.

From Privacy & Settings:

• Click on Full Disk Access

• Flick the ON/OFF switch to ON for Terminal

You may be prompted to enter in admin-level credentials to enable this setting.

With Terminal set to Full Disk Access we run the following command:

defaults read ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.replayd/ScreenCaptureApprovals.plist

This should output a list of all the applications on the Mac that have allow screen and audio recording. It will have the path to the application as well as the associated date when the Mac will prompt you about allowing the app access to screen and audio recording.

{

    "/Applications/Shottr.app/Contents/MacOS/Shottr" = “2024-09-21 12:40:36 +0000”;

}

To stop the prompts we can set the date to one far into the future, in my case I am setting it to April 5, 2063.

defaults write ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.replayd/ScreenCaptureApprovals.plist “/Applications/Shottr.app/Contents/MacOS/Shottr” -date “2063-04-05 12:40:36 +0000”

This will need to be done for each app that uses the screen recording feature. To apply the changes, we must log out of our current macOS session and then log back in.

If you find this process cumbersome there is also an app that a developer made called Amnesia that can download, with an optional donation, that will make these changes from an app.