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Apple could just make it obvious when something is recording the screen. If there is an orange dot what it means is a mystery, sometimes there is no further info in control center so you have to guess was it some recent discord call or you got pwned. Simply fixing that would address a lot of the problem. Is that better in Sequoia?


Of course. Draw a red rectangle around the screen, invert the menu bar, whatever.

Instead, they are copying the “accept cookies” / Windows Vista policy of nagging the user to the point of oblivion.


an icon appears in the menu bar when an app is capturing the screen. clicking it says which app it is.


That already exists, right? I’m guessing they are concerned it’s too subtle.


No, what I meant doesn't exist in current macOS. I record screen often so I just checked:) There's an abstract orange dot on control center and often no further info if you expand control center. Sometimes the dot is there even though I didn't record. Which app did it? Who knows.


I think that would be a lot easier to target as an exploit than the engineering they would have already done to the broader solution of permissions

Especially if left unmonitored/updated




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