macOS privacy usage descriptions for app permissions
Cluster 64571 · apps/desktop. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #95298 on 26 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #95298. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #95298. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
These items address adding and improving privacy usage description strings for macOS permission prompts, including Calendar, Reminders, screen recording, local network, and music access. The work ensures the app properly declares why it needs these permissions to macOS.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#95298 macOS privacy prompts now explain themselves — Calendar, Reminders, screen, local network, music declarations (salvage #65220/#87204/#81571/#66215)
files:
apps/desktop/electron/entitlements.mac.plist,apps/desktop/package.json,contributors/emails/[redacted:email],tests-js/desktop-mac-usage-descriptions.test.ts
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: done elsewhere 1
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#64582 fix(desktop): add Reminders privacy usage descriptions · done elsewhere →
708b245,#95298,#65220,#64571
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#64571[Feature]: Desktop. Hermes.app should include Reminders privacy usage description
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- Subsystem
- apps/desktop
- Merged PRs
- #95298
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 26 Aug 2026