On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Manfred Schwind wrote: > when an app tries to access the contacts (via Address Book Framework), OS X > recently asks the user first if this should be allowed. This question is > asked only once per app, then the app is "on the list" and this list can be > seen in System Preferences - Security & Privacy - Privacy - Contacts. There > you can also change your decision later on (not sure if many people know > this). > > My first question is: > How can I delete an app from this list to test the behaviour of the app when > OS X asks the address book question? > > Furthermore I am not entirely sure, but I think when this contacts questions > was asked for Pages I saw a description WHY Pages want to access the > contacts. But I could not find any API to set such a description. So my > second question is if there is such an API that I may have overlooked? It > would be really great to be able to inform the user why an app want to access > contacts to help him decide wether or not he wants to allow it. Is this > overall new "sandboxed" contacts accessing behaviour of OS X documented > somewhere?
This is discussed in the WWDC video for session 710, starting about 20 minutes in. I believe it should provide answers to all your questions. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
