Privacy & permissions
Supermac asks for access only when a feature needs it. This page lists every macOS permission the app can request, what each one enables, where to change it and what stays on your Mac.
How prompts work
Permissions
These are the permissions the Supermac app and its HomeKit helper can request. Each one is optional and only appears when its feature is used.
Lets Supermac control windows, search menus and insert text for you.
Supermac asks the first time a feature needs to control another app, such as snapping a window. If it is already on but the feature still does nothing, turn it off and on again, then quit and reopen Supermac.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility
Lets Supermac capture your screen for screenshots and other screen tools.
macOS asks the first time you take a screenshot. If captures come out empty or black, turn Supermac off and on again in that list, then quit and reopen the app.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording
Lets Supermac use global shortcuts, snippet triggers and the app switcher.
This is separate from Accessibility. Grant both when a feature needs to see a shortcut and act on it.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring
Lets Supermac run Finder and system actions when you explicitly ask it to.
macOS shows the Automation prompt per app that Supermac is asking to control. It appears only when you run an action that needs it.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation
Lets features that need protected local data read files they would otherwise be denied.
Most people can leave this off. Grant it only if a feature tells you it needs protected local data.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access
Lets Supermac show your next meeting and search calendar actions.
Supermac requests this when a calendar feature is used; it is optional and can be revoked at any time.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Calendars
Lets Supermac search and complete reminders.
Supermac requests this only when you use a reminders feature. It is optional.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Reminders
Lets Supermac find people from the launcher after you grant access.
Access is optional and can be revoked at any time.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Contacts
Lets Supermac show a local camera preview and run optional break presence checks.
Grant this only if you enable a feature that uses the camera. It is optional.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera
Lets Supermac use microphone input for dictation or media features when you grant access.
The microphone is used only while a feature that needs it is active.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone
Lets Supermac search and run Home scenes, lights, switches and accessories.
HomeKit access is requested by Supermac's HomeKit helper app, so the prompt may name the helper rather than Supermac.
Where: System Settings → Privacy & Security → HomeKit
Privacy
What you search, snap, calculate, shelve or capture stays on your Mac. We have no copy of it.
That is the privacy policy's own wording. The policy also lists the small set of things the app sends us — license activation, update checks, crash reports and usage analytics — separately from that content.
FAQ
Supermac can request Accessibility, Screen Recording, Input Monitoring, Automation (Apple Events), Full Disk Access, Calendars, Reminders, Contacts, Camera, Microphone, HomeKit. Each prompt appears only when the feature that needs it is used.
The list above links every permission to the docs for the feature it enables.
Every permission is optional: you can say no, keep using the rest of the app, and grant it later in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Supermac asks the first time a feature needs to control another app, such as snapping a window. If it is already on but the feature still does nothing, turn it off and on again, then quit and reopen Supermac.
The troubleshooting docs cover the same setting: turn the permission off and on again, then quit and reopen the app.
macOS asks the first time you take a screenshot. If captures come out empty or black, turn Supermac off and on again in that list, then quit and reopen the app.
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose the section for that permission, for example Accessibility, Screen Recording or Input Monitoring. Turn Supermac on or off there.
Quit and reopen Supermac after the change so the app picks up the new answer.
What you search, snap, calculate, shelve or capture stays on your Mac. We have no copy of it.
The policy says usage analytics are designed to exclude the content of your AI chats, search queries, clipboard, files and screenshots.
Support
Start with troubleshooting, or reinstall from the download page and grant the permission again.
The same permissions in the docs, with the feature pages they belong to.
Fixes for a permission that is on but the feature still won't work.
Get the disk image, move it to Applications and activate your key.
Still stuck? Email [email protected] with your macOS version, your Supermac version and the exact prompt or error you see.
