Hello and welcome to another episode of App Stories. I'm John Voorhe's back in North Carolina,

and I've got Federico with me. Hey, Federico. Hello, John. How are you?

I'm doing really well. I've recovered from my trip. It was a fun trip, but it's good to be home and kind of getting caught up and back in the usual routine. But we are getting back on track with our

wish list episodes. We took a little break for the Airbnb interview. That was a lot of fun. We learned

a lot about design. And we also

learned that Airbnb wants to hire Federico. But we're not going to let him go. We're going to make

him stick with Mac Stories. And we're going to talk today about our Mac OS and VisionOS wishes,

which, you know, I've got a bit of a list. I've got a bit of a list here.

You obviously got a longer, like, I've been back on MacOS for way, way, way shorter time than you. So obviously you have a longer list. I have, I have some items in my list. But yeah, we're also going to talk about VisionOS. And yeah, I think it should be a fun episode. Why don't we get writing to mechalus.

Yeah, let's start with something that I see us on both of our and yeah, I think it should be a fun episode. Why don't we get riding to macOS?

Yeah, let's start with something that I see is on both of our lists, which are permissions prompts.

Oh, yeah.

And this is not a new problem.

It's been a problem for a couple of years.

It's gotten worse.

And now, reportedly, there's a new API that's going to do a similar thing that they have on iOS and iPadOS where you get permission prompts for using the clipboard, which is going to make the situation even worse, although, you know, there are some limits around it to make it not happen every single time you use the clipboard.

However, one of the things that I've noticed, and you and I have talked about

this a little bit, is that especially with AI apps, you get a ton of permission requests

because they're the kind of apps that want to look at your screen. They want to use your microphone.

They want to, you know, I don't know, capture, yeah, they want to work with

the clipboard. They have all kinds of accessibility and other permissions that they ask for in

order to be able to synthesize as much data as possible that you've got on your Mac. And that can mean four or five of these prompts pop up the minute you install a new

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