Apple will start limiting Mac disk access for developers due to risk of AI agents
- Full Disk Access was introduced for system-wide backups, but agentic AI has introduced a new threat
- Apple has confirmed it will be "introduc[ing] additional controls" to protect sensitive data
- No word on when the changes could apply – no signs for macOS 27.2 just yet
Apple has announced plans to give users more control to the Full Disk Access setting on macOS in a bid to prevent agentic AI from gaining too much access to unwarranted information.
Typically, giving an app Full Disk Access would let it bypass many of macOS's privacy protections, including files and documents, emails, messages, browser history and other data.
It was introduced largely to support system-wide backups, which genuinely needed access to all that data, however with the rise of agentic AI, Apple has been forced to tighten that.
Apple makes major change to Full Disk Access due to AI
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