Apple classifies AI agents as security threat, macOS now requires explicit consent for Full Disk Access
ChrisUniverse · x · 2026-10-04
Apple now treats AI agents as a security threat: macOS requires "very explicit user action" to grant Full Disk Access — the single toggle exposing files, mail, messages, and browsing history.
The poster, who runs agents daily on a 64GB M1 Max, notes the OS is now defending itself against the software the AI community is building, and urges developers to audit what their agents can read and write.
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