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cynthia168 Author

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Why are applications asking to receive keystrokes Macos Catalina

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 19, 2020 5:50 AM

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anonyme4321

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Posted on Aug 19, 2020 6:33 AM

Yes some 3rd party apps might not work as expected without this permission, it is up to you if you want to give the app permission.

My advice would be to deny the permission and see if the app still works ok without it, if it doesn't you can give it the permission later in the security settings of your mac.

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anonyme4321

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Aug 19, 2020 6:33 AM in response to cynthia168

Yes some 3rd party apps might not work as expected without this permission, it is up to you if you want to give the app permission.

My advice would be to deny the permission and see if the app still works ok without it, if it doesn't you can give it the permission later in the security settings of your mac.

cynthia168 Author

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Aug 19, 2020 6:06 AM in response to anonyme4321

I don't understand your answer. I am a very basic Mac user.

What is "Accessibility - Input Monitoring Access"

Basic question: do I want to allow all apps to receive keystrokes?

Will some third-party apps not work without this permission?

anonyme4321

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Aug 19, 2020 5:55 AM in response to cynthia168

It' is Apple's new policy chasing away third party developers from using "Accessibility - Input Monitoring Access" which is required for 'some' third party softwares.

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