{"id":36933,"date":"2026-10-28T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=36933"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:39:59","slug":"ccatp-844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ccatp-844\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #844 \u2014 Adam Engst on Full Disk Access on macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week our guest is my friend and yours, Adam Engst of TidBITS. Adam recently wrote an article about the kerfuffle caused by Apple&#8217;s message to developers about how it&#8217;s going to tighten full disk access controls. I asked Adam to come on the show and explain first what happened and what he thinks the solution(s) could be. Here&#8217;s a link to Adam&#8217;s article: <a href =\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/10\/12\/why-full-disk-access-matters-and-what-apple-should-fix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Full Disk Access Matters\u2014and What Apple Should Fix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During our conversation, Adam mentioned his app, <a href =\"https:\/\/github.com\/adamengst\/setshot-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SetShot<\/a>, which shows you what has changed in your System Settings vs. the defaults and can take snapshots to see what you&#8217;ve changed over time. He brings it up because while his app only needs read access, Apple makes him ask for full disk access, which is both read and write.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-36933-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_10_21.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_10_21.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_10_21.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_10_21.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/CCATP_2026_10_21.html\">CCATP_2026_10_27<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week our guest is my friend and yours, Adam Engst of TidBITS. Adam recently wrote an article about the kerfuffle caused by Apple&#8217;s message to developers about how it&#8217;s going to tighten full disk access controls. I asked Adam to come on the show and explain first what happened and what he thinks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[172,1],"tags":[8453,8452,8412,3658],"class_list":["post-36933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccatp","category-podcasts","tag-backup-utilities","tag-full-disk-access","tag-muse","tag-tidbits"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ChitChatPond_V7_300px.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36934,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933\/revisions\/36934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}