MacOS Sequoia -- "Allow Apps from Anywhere" (or GateKeeper) has been modified..

Todd Templeton wrote:

This recent "we know better than you" attitude of Apple's is something I'm not a fan of.

This has always been Apple's attitude. It was their attitudes when they removed the SCSI port, when they removed floppy disks, when they removed optical disks and hundreds of other smaller changes.

djconns13 wrote:

I'll give y'all a far easier way round all this nonsense of typing in commands in terminal and all that nonsense, open privacy and security, in the search box type "open download" or open. It will pop up gatekeeper, click it, then under security you have the option to open and run your file from allow applicationsfrom anywhere. Once done, disable it if youre worried about security! Simples

By default, that option hasn't existed since at least Sonoma, maybe earlier.

Getting it back in the menu requires "commands in terminal and all that nonsense."

innerspace3, as is typical of an Apple Support Communities Discussion that has grown into several pages over several months this one has gone off the rails reducing it to little more than noise. Its originator resolved his or her problem a while ago and hasn't been back since. For that reason and others I recommend that you start your own Discussion. To do that click the Ask the Community link above.

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Personally I don't believe your particular concern is related to the subject of this Discussion.

I've run the terminal command and now have "Anywhere" selected but I still can't install the software. I don't get any options to allow and all the software does is says I need to allow it to be installed in the Security settings. I am going round and round in circles and in the meantime I cannot get the software installed.

What else could it be? I honestly hate the new security settings from Apple. They've actually reduced the amount of control I can have on my own machine and with what I can and cannot do anymore. Ideally they should have an amateur mode for those that don't have a clue and a pro mode for those that have been using Macs for donkey's years who know what they're doing.

Anyone got any ideas? I am running the installer so the app actually opens and the installation works as it should until I get to this specific window. I incredibly frustrating.

it's an app called Sync which is like a Dropbox type software. And I tried the above and no it's not quarantined. Actually I can install the app but there is a feature called CloudFiles which allows me to choose what files I sync/store on my hard drive locally and what's cloud based files. That's the part that won't let me activate now.

When I do this and I go to the security settings the app name doesn't show up in the allow section so for some reason I can't activate this part. I have thrown it back to Sync themselves but they are having a hard time for some reason in knowing what to do. Super weird because it's worked for years and then when I had to do a new OS install and installed the latest version it all went very wrong. Then I downgraded to a previous version and it got worse!!

I have a script that configures a profile to Gatekeeper that disables it in Privacy & Security>Security>Allow applications from>.

You can later delete the profile in General>device, which enabled The Gatekeeper again.

I'll paste the script if you wish?

I'll have to take 10 mins to find it on my MacBook.

ukdesigner wrote:

it's an app called Sync which is like a Dropbox type software.

At least Dropbox was recently updated so it stores its files to ~/Library/CloudStorage as Sequoia now expects. Dropbox is listed in Privacy & Security > Full disk access but that setting is inactive in my setup.

So maybe your Sync app is not fully compatible with Sequoia?

MacOS is designed by Apple, and is therefore essentially free of bugs, requires little maintenance and is not susceptible to malware. If you are encountering issues it follows that you are obviously doing something wrong.

@jimfromgowanda I am fully aware of who makes Apple macOS. It's kinda in the name. I know my way around Macs and have done for a very long time, all the way back to os 9.1, so pre unix.

Apples paranoia and control is getting out of control. Things like this should be a simple fix but they keep messing with the structure of the OS and how to be able to deal with security issues. Anyway, that's a different argument for a different day.

OOPS

-- Run the Script, Disable-Gatekeeper will be installed then after double click to renew Disable Gatekeeper

-- Disable-Gatekeeper Copyright © 2024 chris1111 , All Rights Reserved

set source to path to me as string

set source to POSIX path of source & "Contents/Resources/Disable-Gatekeeper.mobileconfig"

set source to quoted form of source

delay 1

-- Open Profiles.prefPane

do shell script "open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Profiles.prefPane " & source & "/"

delay 1

-- Open Profiles.prefPane/Profiles-Settings.extension

do shell script "open x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.Profiles-Settings.extension"

jamesmcsparron wrote:

Here's that script I promised. Hope it works. Just paste it into your "Script Editor" and hit the play button.

For anyone randomly trying whatever they see posted on the internet, this can't possibly work. 😄

thanks. Sadly that didn't work either. I've gone back to the company and getting them to resolve this. There is something going astray here that I don't know what or why but they need to resolve this one way or another.

yeah I did from

set source to path to me as string........to shell script "open x.apple..." etc etc. Came back with gatekeeper mobile config does not exist. I'm not on silicon, I'm on intel still.

Appreciate the try. I think it's a system issue with sequoia and their software and it's a bug.

I didn't get this randomly. It came off the back of a lorry with the App, if you know what I mean? And it worked on on my Macbook. I then deleted it's profile when I was done with my dirty dealings. All for the sake of learning I should add. No silver crossed my palm etc etc.

jamesmcsparron wrote:

I didn't get this randomly. It came off the back of a lorry with the App, if you know what I mean?

I do not.

And it worked on on my Macbook. I then deleted it's profile when I was done with my dirty dealings. All for the sake of learning I should add. No silver crossed my palm etc etc.

But given that you don't know why it can't possibly work, you shouldn't be recommend it to other people.

Hint: ukdesigner's last reply explicitly says why it doesn't work.