Forgotten preferences on start-up?
When I boot my iMac, several of my menu bar items refer me to System Security & Privacy Preferences to provide permissions for combinations of: accessibility, screen recording, full disk access, and input monitoring. When I check the Security & Privacy preferences the requesting apps are all listed and have been checked. (Although sometimes all of those panels are completely blank!) This has only been happening for a couple months.
I have checked that there is only one copy of each of the impacted apps. I have also done a fresh reinstall of the MacOS. [iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019) 24GB; 1TB SSD; OS 12.2].
Logging out and back does not fix the problem, but doing a Restart after the CPU activity settles down seems to resolve, so this is now a two start annoyance when I turn my iMac on for the day. If I do a full Shut Down… and then Start-up the problem usually, but not always, returns. One other solution that usually works is to not have those start-up permission-needing-apps launch as log-in items but to wait for the CPU to settle and then manually launch them (though this fails if the Privacy panels are blank).
I'm hoping for some diagnostic procedures to address this issue beyond just leaving my iMac on all the time!
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
