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App data access Macbook Pro M3
Out of the blue I was asked to enable fingerprint access as well as allow access to app data. I had not made any updates to my Mac OS or 1password as far as I know. Is this normal or should a disallow access data from other apps? Please advise.
Hello folks,
I wanted to provide an update: macOS apps can contain several different components and a recent change to macOS resulted in all of an app's components being required to be manually added to an app's entitlement manifest rather than being automatically included so that those components can access 1Password's Group Containers folder.
If a 1Password app component (such as the updater) isn't in the manifest then you'll see a prompt asking you to give 1Password access to data from other apps. Our developers have previously resolved this issue by adding the updater to 1Password's entitlement manifest but it looks like other components may still need to be added and the team will investigate this further.
For the time being, you can click "Deny" when prompted without running into issues. If you clicked "Allow" in the prompt, 1Password was not granted access to data from any other apps and there's no other action that you need to take at this time. That being said, if you'd like to revoke this permission you can uninstall and reinstall 1Password and then click "Deny" if you see the prompt again in the future.
-Dave
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- 1P_Dave
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Hello folks,
I wanted to provide an update: macOS apps can contain several different components and a recent change to macOS resulted in all of an app's components being required to be manually added to an app's entitlement manifest rather than being automatically included so that those components can access 1Password's Group Containers folder.
If a 1Password app component (such as the updater) isn't in the manifest then you'll see a prompt asking you to give 1Password access to data from other apps. Our developers have previously resolved this issue by adding the updater to 1Password's entitlement manifest but it looks like other components may still need to be added and the team will investigate this further.
For the time being, you can click "Deny" when prompted without running into issues. If you clicked "Allow" in the prompt, 1Password was not granted access to data from any other apps and there's no other action that you need to take at this time. That being said, if you'd like to revoke this permission you can uninstall and reinstall 1Password and then click "Deny" if you see the prompt again in the future.
-Dave
I've already clicked on "Allow". How do I now make it "Don't Allow"?
- 1P_Dave
Hello geraldR! 👋
I'm sorry that you ran into an unexpected prompt. I've run into the same prompt myself when updating from 8.10.62 to 8.10.64 and I've flagged this internally. A recent change to how Apple enforces permission restrictions for the Group Container folder, where the 1Password updater stores log files, resulted in a similar issue that was resolved earlier this year and it sounds like there might have been a regression somewhere recently.
An issue has been filed with our development team to investigate this further. For the time being, you can click on either "Allow" or "Don't Allow" and it won't cause any issues.
-Dave
1P_Dave, like brownpaulw, I also selected "Allow" when presented with the prompt "1Password would like to access data from other apps." What is the process to revoke this permission from 1Password on macOS 15.3.1? (Thank you.)
Pleonasm , What I did on my Mac (OS 15.3.1) was to go into...
System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access
...and switch 1Password's slider to "off". I haven't seen any ill effects from doing that -- at least not yet..
