MacOS – Add apps to Input Monitoring

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I would like to grant access for google chrome or safari to my microphone and both redirect me to security & privacy section.

There are no plus or minus signs and no apparent way to allow these apps to use my microphone.

I also tried the same with Skype. All of those apps just redirect to this blank preference pane.

How can I add an application here?

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The core question here is "What have you done to make / install any application that would request this entitlement?"

A system call by an app you install and then run is what populates this preference pane. Additionally - there are several entitlements, so you might need to allow an app like Microsoft Teams several clicks for screen sharing, controlling the input, accessing the camera and microphone, etc...

I’ve found as I get used to this release, stating from the top of the pane and looking at each in sequence helps to get used to the different security restrictions.

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MacOS – Apps Stuck in Security & Privacy > Accessibility

Within Terminal you can run the following command to see the current entries in your system.

sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/Tcc.db 'select * from access'

And then this command to remove an entry you don't want any longer.

sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/Tcc.db 'delete from access where client like "%YOURAPPNAMEHERE%"'

So, for example, I ran the following command which removed Automator from the list.

sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/Tcc.db 'delete from access where client like "%Automator%"'

And just to give credit where credit is due, I found the solution on Apple's discussion forums here.

Another option to find a list of applications which have requested Accessibility access is the following command. This will give you the list of application which have been allowed and the ones that haven't.

defaults read com.apple.universalaccessAuthWarning

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