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The Apple dialogs fwiw are at least easy to understand, and are distinctive for each security nag type. Having used Catalina in public beta over the last month it really does not feel like using Windows Vista, you get asked once for each application and after that, nada. The experience would be far better if macOS did not re-launch every open application after installing a major OS update so that the dialogs could be drip-fed as each app was used.

I do agree that better monitoring and reporting would be better, but these nags are for basic folder access and notifications. I do find it strange however that macOS now requires permission for an app to send notifications, whereas it is no longer required to provisionally send notifications to a user on iOS (until they turn them off).




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