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October 9 2025 - 3:27 pm

Bug or Feature? Non-Persistent Permission to Read the Media Library

If you've been following along, you will have noticed how Apple has, over the years, gotten stingier with which and how certain "protected resources" on your Mac can be accessed by third parties. One of these resources is your Media library. In order to access information about your Media library, a third party app has to declare its intentions to the user. This is a typical dialog you will see in such a situation:

Conventionally, this will be displayed as you launch the script app for the first time. Then the user's "Allow" decision will be remembered every time you launch it thereafter.

This is not happening in macOS 26/Tahoe. Every time you launch such a script you will see this dialog.

Not every script requires access to the Media library so this doesn't happen with every script. But it does with enough of the popular ones.

I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior. I filed a bug report.

posted in Bug or Feature?, macOS 26, Tahoe
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