“flameshot” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified

[saurabhj4in]

Flameshot Version

All

Installation Type

Linux, MacOS, or Windows Package manager (apt, pacman, eopkg, choco, brew, ...)

Operating System type and version

Apple M3 Pro, macOS Sonoma Version 14.3

Description

I am unable to install flameshot in mac as I am getting this issue as "macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware" Is there any way that I can do that.

Steps to reproduce

Download flameshot.dmg and double click to install

Screenshots or screen recordings

System Information

Apple M3 Pro, macOS Sonoma Version 14.3

[HeinanCA]

Occurs to me as well on M3 Pro, macOS Sonoma v14.4.1

[ObjectOrientedGuy]

check this section in README.md file

Note that because of macOS security features, you may not be able to open flameshot when installed using brew. If you see the message “flameshot” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. you will need to follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Applications folder (Finder > Go > Applications, or Shift+Command+A)
2. Right-Click on "flameshot.app" and choose "Open" from the context menu
3. In the dialog click "Open"

After following all those steps above, flameshot will open without problems in your Mac.

[Karreg]

I just came across the same issue. Thanks for the link.

It should definitely be written in the MacOS install documentation :)

[mmahmoudian]

@jain6196 @HeinanCA Duplicate of #3533 and #3404 . We always encourage users to search among open and closed issues before creating a new one. This is primarily to save your own time.

@ObjectOrientedGuy Thanks for addressing this issue before we find a chance to do so.

Also @Karreg kindly provided a PR on out website repo to have this information more spread across our documentations. Thank you @Karreg

I wish you all enjoy Flameshot

[krema]

check this section in README.md file

Note that because of macOS security features, you may not be able to open flameshot when installed using brew. If you see the message “flameshot” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. you will need to follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Applications folder (Finder > Go > Applications, or Shift+Command+A)
2. Right-Click on "flameshot.app" and choose "Open" from the context menu
3. In the dialog click "Open"

After following all those steps above, flameshot will open without problems in your Mac.

This is not working for me. Other ideas?

EDIT: Got it. Go to Settings -> Privacy & Security and unblock it