Quite a lot of people discuss the macOS prompt “ would like to access data from other apps” after upgrading to macOS Sonoma in various forums, and this message also occurs in the latest macOS Sequoia.
Mac users have also encountered this "app would like to access data from other apps " with other applications, such as:
- “Dropbox.app” would like to access data from other apps.
- “Zoom.app” would like to access data from other apps.
- “VSCode.app” would like to access data from other apps.
- “Parallels Desktop.app” would like to access data from other apps.
- “Pulsar.app” would like to access data from other apps.
- …
It seems that this prompt is not exclusive to certain apps, some Mac users tried to update the app and reinstall the app on Mac, but the error still pops up. Besides, it may not be a system bug given that someone reinstalled macOS and still received this message on the Mac screen.
This is a privacy feature included in macOS Sonoma and later. if an application that isn’t supposed to or doesn’t have permission attempts to access data from a folder(this can be one of the open folders in your workspace), then it triggers this pop-up to ask for permission. Furthermore, you will also see this prompt each time you open the application if the folder is still being accessed because the allow permission is only active for the instance of the application. This explains why people keep receiving the “app would like to access data from other apps” message.