Is it possible to completely remove apps from the various privacy categories in System Preferences?
System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy
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Do you mean specifically for calendars? – Cody Rutscher Oct 12 '18 at 14:46
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Calendars, Contacts, Photos... Generally speaking, how do we remove them entirely? – user305944 Oct 12 '18 at 18:58
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1Unchecking them should do the trick no? – Cody Rutscher Oct 13 '18 at 5:32
To remove all apps from a particular Privacy category, open Terminal.app and type the following command, then type the Return key:
tccutil reset CATEGORY
where CATEGORY is one of:
- Accessibility
- AddressBook
- AppleEvents
- Calendar
- Camera
- Microphone
- Photos
- Reminders
If you want to remove only a particular app, you need to first determine its Bundle ID. Once you know that, issue the command:
tccutil reset CATEGORY BUNDLEID
Note: Specifying an app's Bundle ID appears to require macOS Mojave (10.14) or later.
You could also remove all apps from all categories:
tccutil reset All
In the example given in the question, the following commands would remove Terminal and Chrome from Calendars.
First, determine their Bundle IDs:
osascript -e 'id of app "Terminal"'
shows com.apple.Terminal. Same for "Chrome" gives: com.google.Chrome. Now we can reset them:
tccutil reset Calendars com.apple.Terminal
tccutil reset Calendars com.google.Chrome
Pro tip:
This is a one-liner doing the same:
tccutil reset Calendars `osascript -e 'id of app "Chrome"'`
More info in this blog article: Managing Mojave’s privacy protection: Privacy controls.
answered May 21 '19 at 16:09
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On Catalina,
tccutil reset Allresulted in terminal not accepting input, my keyboard not working anymore and my mouse unable to click. I had to hard-reboot with the power key. – mrm Dec 30 '19 at 21:09
Unchecking the checkbox prevents the application from using those services.
You cannot remove the listings directly from this window as they have requested these permissions in the past. For non-system apps like Chrome, you can remove the application from your machine and it will remove the listing from the privacy pane.
I tried clicking on the application you want to remove, but not the checkbox and then clicking the remove button (-). It worked for me, but I'm not sure if it will work for others as of yet.
