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As a developer and user, I sometimes need to reset the decision I once made concerning access rights in the "Privacy and Security" settings of my Mac. For example: I started and application for the first time and by accident click "No" or "Deny" when an application asked for specific rights (eg. access to the Network or Pictures etc). Sad part is that sometimes the application does not appear in the Privacy settings yet needs to be reset or turned on.
This is how you can reset this for a specific application.
1) in the Info.plist file of said application (right click the application in Finder and select "Show Package Content", open the Contents folder, and double click the Info.plist file) look for "CFBundleIdentifier" where it will show something like this:
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.company.appname</string>
We need the "com.company.appname" text.
2) Next reset the security settings for a specific service ("Photos" being an example, see list below) for said application like so:
tccutil reset Photos com.company.appname
Rest ALL security settings for a given service (caution!)
Let's say you want to reset the privacy settings for an entire service then this can be done like so.
Keep in mind though that ALL rights for all applications will be revoke by doing this!!
tccutil reset Photos
I did find a list of existing services, but this list may grow over time as Apple comes with more options.
Accessibility AddressBook All AppleEvents Calendar Camera Facebook LinkedIn Liverpool Location MediaLibrary Microphone Photos PhotosAdd PostEvent Reminders ShareKit SinaWeibo Siri SystemPolicyAllFiles SystemPolicyDeveloperFiles SystemPolicySysAdminFiles
