Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents 'substantially' increase risk

Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents 'substantially' increase risk Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk Mac apps will soon need ‘very explicit user action’ to gain full disk access, according to Apple. Mac apps will soon need ‘very explicit user action’ to gain full disk access, according to Apple.

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• Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk Mac apps will soon need ‘very explicit user action’ to gain full disk access, according to Apple.
• Mac apps will soon need ‘very explicit user action’ to gain full disk access, according to Apple.
• by Emma Roth Oct 2, 2026, 8:08 PM UTC Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more.
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• Apple will add new limits for “full disk access” on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch .
• In an update on Friday , Apple says it’s rolling out new controls to “ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action.” The change comes just weeks after Inc ’s Jason Aten found that Meta’s Muse AI somehow knew the contents of his messages , despite not giving the chatbot explicit permission to access them on his iPhone or Mac.