Camera and mic are the permissions everyone knows about. But macOS quietly grants apps the ability to record your screen, control your cursor, log your keystrokes, and read every file on your drive — and System Settings makes each one genuinely hard to find.
Full Disk Access is the broadest privacy grant on macOS — an app with it can read your Mail, Messages, Safari history, and most of your files. You probably granted it months ago and forgot. Here is how to see who has it and take it back, no Terminal required.
macOS shows you which apps have permission to use your camera and mic. It does not clearly show you which ones actually used them recently. Here is how to find out — and what to do about it.
Phones, smart TVs, plugs, speakers, maybe a neighbour’s guest device — your Wi‑Fi is busier than you think. Here is how your Mac can show you exactly what is connected.