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MacOS: “1Password” would like to access data from other apps?
Hoping to understand what this permission is for. Thanks.
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
Same here. What kind of data does 1Password want to access, for what reason, and why now?
I guess people who actively choose to use a password manager tend to be more paranoid (or realistic) then the general public, and you can't drop this on us without context.
The dialog doesn’t actually come from 1Password, but from macOS itself. 1Password requires various permissions from macOS in order to use all its features. It just seems a bit odd that this dialog suddenly appears, even though neither macOS nor 1Password has been updated.
I also went through all of macOS’ privacy settings and couldn’t find anything related to this under “Files and Folders” or “Full Disk Access.”
I would simply like to know which privacy and access permissions 1Password actually requires – and which ones it doesn’t.
