Persistent "Zoom is Accessing Your Screen" Notification After macOS 15.2 Update

I'm going to restate what many others in this discussion have stated in different ways as the simple fix:

1) Restart your Mac

2) Quit Zoom if it launches on login (also quit any other app that uses screensharing)

3) Select the following path and and copy it to the clipboard

~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.replayd

4) Open Finder

5) Choose "Go" > "Go to Folder..." from the Finder menu

6) Paste the clipboard into the box and then press the [return] key

7) From within the folder that opens, move the file called "ScreenCaptureApprovals.plist" to the Trash

8) Restart your Mac

9) Use Zoom screensharing

kerily224 wrote:

This is not just a zoom issue. It happens with Slack and with Teams as well. Any application that uses screen sharing. Really really annoying. Please fix it Apple!!!!!

Apple is not going to see your plea. This is a user to user forum only. If you want Apple to be aware contact them here: How to contact Apple

Yeah, that file is regenerated automatically, but the date within the file needs to be in the future as opposed to in the past.

So far, deleting the file has worked for everybody, BUT with different styles of doing it.

Some people needed to ensure that they quit Zoom and other screen sharing apps first. Some people needed to restart. Some people needed to do both. However, it eventually worked.

My recommendation here is to do this:

1. Quit all applications. Not clicking the X, but actually CMD-Q. Quit everything.
2. Restart your computer.
3. Login and then delete the file as the first thing.
4. Feel free to view the file after it is rebuilt. Ideally, the dates in it will be in the future.

Same issue with Zoom on our of computers. Full uninstall/reinstall doesn't help. Does work from the browser without issue however.

I'm here to say that the GitHub script worked perfectly for me!

I did end up removing it twice for the user, removing it and not restarting didn't prevent it from re-occuring (apparently). But the method I described worked the 2nd time.

Same problem here. This is really unacceptable. Please fix this annoying message.

This issue is ridiculous. Why won't it stop? This issue is embarrassing when trying to share my screen and it's distracting from what I'm trying to do.

This is not just a zoom issue. It happens with Slack and with Teams as well. Any application that uses screen sharing. Really really annoying. Please fix it Apple!!!!!

this is still happening all the time, Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, everything!!

I cannot do my job with this going on. This is costing me my livelihood

Reinstalling worked temporarily.

The notifications are not opening in the rapid-fire mode as they once were, but they still pop up every few minutes. I think it occurs when others in the group speak. Argh.

Within the file, the specific issue appears to be related to this part:

<key>kScreenCaptureApprovalLastAlerted</key>
<date>2025-04-24T08:14:39Z</date>

All dates should be in the future. Any dates in the past means it will re-trigger the Alert immediately.

So, if the file re-creates with a past date, there is likely something running with that information in memory that dumps it right back down to disk.

This is why all machines have to quit any screen capturing applications first, and why some of them also need to do a system restart.

A total guess here... if a machine continues to rewrite an old date, deleting the file from a Safe Mode reboot might solve it. That'd be my next step, anyway.

Incredible! That GitHub nag remover sketched me out and I didn't want to use it either. Your method has worked for me so far for both Bartender and Xnapper which were the apps causing me trouble, thank you so much for sharing!

You use a APP that's dubious and you wonder why you get these results?

All your personal data sent to their servers! Every email address it finds on your system, every face recognised photo, every website you've ever visited! All your address book!

THERE'S NOTHING FREE ABOUT ZOOM!