MacOS 15.2 and AltTab Is Accessing Your Screen Popup Madness

[mehradsadeghi]

Hi, Since I updated my MacOS to 15.2, the screen being accessed privacy warning which was like a button in menu bar has been changed to a popup (image below). It is being shown every time I switch between windows. It's driving me crazy 😫 .

Not only it's distracting, it hovers over contents for a couple of seconds every time, makes it impossible to reach (click) whatever there is.

I know logically this is expected. I wanted to know if there is any way that this popup goes away and the privacy warning would be shown in the menubar like before ?

[mahmoudimus]

Go to https://github.com/luckman212/screencapture-nag-remover, install it as per directions and run it. Nags should go away.

[mehradsadeghi]

Go to https://github.com/luckman212/screencapture-nag-remover, install it as per directions and run it. Nags should go away.

My issue is not the Allow Permission nags. Are you sure this will fix my issue ?

[Maverick-Talys]

Same Here !

Since the nexw MAJ, i can't use AltTab without the annoying pop-up appearing every 10 sec.

[Charlie-Dang]

Same issue to me, just upgraded to MacOS 15.2 and faced this issue. I have already allow screen & audio recording, but this annoying message keeps pop up :(

[chelios]

same issue here on 15.2

fresh install of latest AltTab version

[jZhangTk]

Same here. One interesting thing is that my work M2 Pro always shows me this popup, while my personal M3 only displays the bluish dot without the popup. They are both on 15.2. Aside from the work-related security configurations and apps, I'm not sure what the difference is between them.

[rennsax]

Go to luckman212/screencapture-nag-remover, install it as per directions and run it. Nags should go away.

Same issue and the script in the mentioned repo saved me!

[Charlie-Dang]

I found temporary work around: (seems working)

1. Close the app
2. Set your date manually to 2040.
3. reopen the app and allow permission
4. Set date back. Refer: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1hckns4/how_can_i_get_rid_of_app_is_accessing_your_screen/

[mehradsadeghi]

I found temporary work around: (seems working)

1. Close the app
2. Set your date manually to 2040.
3. reopen the app and allow permission
4. Set date back. Refer: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1hckns4/how_can_i_get_rid_of_app_is_accessing_your_screen/

Nice. This seems to be working until a proper patch version get released. cc: @lwouis

[lwouis]

I upgraded to macos 15.2. I've never seen this new popup. Anyone still seeing it? It seems like it could be Apple experimenting with some users but not all.

[mehradsadeghi]

I upgraded to macos 15.2. I've never seen this new popup. Anyone still seeing it? It seems like it could be Apple experimenting with some users but not all.

I haven't seen it since I've done this.

[coderpradp]

@lwouis Just upgraded to 15.2 and the nag popup keeps appearing every time i use cmd + tab, or open any applications (new window as well).

Using https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/3973#issuecomment-2547609282 workaround for now.

[Jianing-Xu]

I found temporary work around: (seems working)

1. Close the app
2. Set your date manually to 2040.
3. reopen the app and allow permission
4. Set date back. Refer: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1hckns4/how_can_i_get_rid_of_app_is_accessing_your_screen/

It works!

[WilliamDahlen]

I found temporary work around: (seems working)

1. Close the app

2. Set your date manually to 2040.

3. reopen the app and allow permission

4. Set date back.
   Refer: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1hckns4/how_can_i_get_rid_of_app_is_accessing_your_screen/

To add to this workaround, if you use a managed device which inhibits you from changing the time using the settings menu, using the command line instead did the trick.

1. Close the app
2. Run sudo date 010710312040
3. Restart the app and allow permission
4. Run sudo date mmddhhmm2025

[rennsax]

I found temporary work around: (seems working)

1. Close the app

2. Set your date manually to 2040.

3. reopen the app and allow permission

4. Set date back.
   Refer: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1hckns4/how_can_i_get_rid_of_app_is_accessing_your_screen/

To add to this workaround, if you use a managed device which inhibits you from changing the time using the settings menu, using the command line instead did the trick.

1. Close the app
2. Run sudo date 010710312040
3. Restart the app and allow permission
4. Run sudo date mmddhhmm2025

Just curious: what is mmddhhmm2025?

[Battleman]

Just curious: what is mmddhhmm2025?

A placeholder, replace that with the current date (mm == month in 2 characters, dd == day,...). In the previous command, 010710312040 is January 07th, 10:31 2040.

Run sudo date 010710312040

A word of caution to people doing that: don't mess up the date command, I accidentally set my year to 5940. which almost bricked my computer :D I personally killed outlook first (the 5940 date made it process 3000 years of missed meetings), and shut off the wifi (on a company network, the certificate wasn't valid anymore). After doing those two things, and using the year 2040 worked without any issue.

[DmytroKhylko]

My solution as for now would be to run Alt-Tab w/o Screen Recording permission. Though it disables the previews but at least I can still conveniently switch between apps.

[lwouis]

I was shown this today:

Bartender is a paid app with a professional team behind it. They must be struggling with lots of people complaining about the UI nagging.

I wish Apple would calm down, or at least settle on some UI. They seem to be running A/B testing and people get different experiences, and the same people get different experiences over time. It's infuriating many users. People come here to complain, but we can't do anything. Bypassing these UI elements would mean we are defeating Apple protection measures. We definitely don't want to go that route and start doing dark patterns and fight Apple measures.

I wish this would go away. It's a big burden on me 😓

[mx1up]

Even in legitimate circumstances it doesn't work well. Anyone using Microsoft Teams has the same problem when sharing their screen. I suspect things will need to be fine-tuned from the apple side ;)

[antoine-ak]

For me the annoyance is more than the top menu bar icon / a notification. The (related) issue is that "AltTab is recording your screen" (not "accessing") appears when I switch to a window (so, a moment where we don't need Alt Tab to save the image of the window) and it is pixelating the current window, preventing the program from refreshing / painting the content and preventing any interaction with the window

[Mydong]

上面提到的技巧和仓库脚本在macOS Sequoia版本15.3.2 版本中都无法生效。 最终，取消了缩略图功能，关闭了屏幕录制的权限，虽然不完美，但是终于没有这个烦人的提醒了。

[mx1up]

上面提到的技巧和仓库脚本在macOS Sequoia版本15.3.2 版本中都无法生效。 最终，取消了缩略图功能，关闭了屏幕录制的权限，虽然不完美，但是终于没有这个烦人的提醒了。

Fwiw, I did the workaround and updated to macOS 15.3.2 last week and it still works 🤞 you mean the workaround no longer works on a fresh install of alttab , right?

[Mydong]

上面提到的技巧和仓库脚本在macOS Sequoia版本15.3.2 版本中都无法生效。 最终，取消了缩略图功能，关闭了屏幕录制的权限，虽然不完美，但是终于没有这个烦人的提醒了。

Fwiw, I did the workaround and updated to macOS 15.3.2 last week and it still works 🤞 you mean the workaround no longer works on a fresh install of alttab , right?

Maybe I'm a recent adopter of alt-tab. After the above tips, the solution began. But following the method above, the hint still exists.

Whether it's changing to 2040 or github script.

[ov1d1u]

If the app would somehow access the screen continuously, wouldn't this make the popup to not appear so often?

[19X17]

Have found a partial solution. https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/YellowDot It's not perfect because It can not stop the control center icon from moving (to have space for the dot notification) completely but It can make the screen recording icon and the dot completely black/white. Pairing with wallpapers with a black/white background it's invisible.

[gilcu2]

After upgrading to 15.6 keeps making the sound alert all the time. ./screencapture-nag-remover. doesn't solve the problem to me. Some idea?

[mx1up]

After upgrading to 15.6 keeps making the sound alert all the time. ./screencapture-nag-remover. doesn't solve the problem to me. Some idea?

I also upgraded to 15.6 yesterday but don't seem to have that problem. I'm on v7.25.0 ..

[tarikdemirci]

Have found a partial solution. https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/YellowDot It's not perfect because It can not stop the control center icon from moving (to have space for the dot notification) completely but It can make the screen recording icon and the dot completely black/white. Pairing with wallpapers with a black/white background it's invisible.

This reduces the annoyance quite a bit. Thanks @19X17 ! The link target you provided is invalid. Visible link is correct though (so copying the link manually works). For future generations, here is the correct link: https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/YellowDot

Btw, the screen recording icon looks like this for me, instead of the glaring purple earlier:

[irexyc]

Thanks @19X17

I believe the optimal solution at present is as follows.

1. Change the wallpaper, make menu bar area to black
2. Using yellowdot, make the menubar indicator to black
3. Using Ice, move the indicator icon to the left of arrow

Finally, you will get something like this. The original purple indicator icon will still popping up, but it's almost black and will only appear on the left of Ice arrow.

[CodingByMe]

Are there any updates?