How to "allow" 3rd party apps in Ventura 13.0?

I'm trying to play Bluestacks games on my iMac, on which I recently installed OS 13.0 Ventura. On starting the game now, I'm asked to accept extensions in System Settings. However in the System Settings > Security section, I see only 2 choices for "Allow applications downloaded from":

  1. App Store
  2. App Store and identified developers


In previous OS versions, an extra option to "Allow" or "open anyway" would appear if the app I want to run does not meet these requirement. But with Ventura this extra option doesn't appear.


How do I solve this problem?

iMac, OS X 10.11

Posted on Oct 27, 2022 12:19 AM

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Posted on Nov 19, 2022 8:58 AM

sincerus wrote:

You have to know how to 'turn on' this option via CLI commands. Open up a Terminal window and type the following:
sudo spctl --master-disable

Now if you go to Privacy and Security in the Settings area you will see an option for "Open Anyway".

As a software developer I hope that don't take this away.

Or, you can just ctrl-click on the app and choose "Open"

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