PermissionsKit

The convenient wrapper on macOS permissions API.

Current implementation supports permissions for:

• Calendar
• Contacts
• Reminders
• Photos
• Full Disk Access

Usage

Available types:

typedef NS_ENUM(NSUInteger, MPPermissionType) {
    MPPermissionTypeCalendar = 0,
    MPPermissionTypeReminders,
    MPPermissionTypeContacts,
    MPPermissionTypePhotos,
    MPPermissionTypeFullDiskAccess
} NS_SWIFT_NAME(PermissionType);

Get permissions status:

/**
 * Requests current authorization status for a given type.
 *
 * @discussion It is safe to call this method on system where permission type is not supported. MPAuthorizationStatusAuthorized will be returned.
 *
 * @param permissionType MPPermissionType
 * @return MPAuthorizationStatus
 */
+ (MPAuthorizationStatus)authorizationStatusForPermissionType:(MPPermissionType)permissionType;

Ask for permissions:

/**
 * Requests user authorization for a given permission. Completion will be invoked with a user decision. Completion queue is undefined.
 * @discussion There will be no completion when requesting MPPermissionTypeFullDiskAccess, because its status is unknown. You should implement your own callback mechanism, for example - polling authorization. It is safe to call this method on system where permission type is not supported. MPAuthorizationStatusAuthorized will be returned.
 *
 * @param permissionType MPPermissionType
 * @param completionHandler void (^)(MPAuthorizationStatus status)
 */
+ (void)requestAuthorizationForPermissionType:(MPPermissionType)permissionType withCompletion:(void (^)(MPAuthorizationStatus status))completionHandler;

Calendar

10.9+

NSCalendarsUsageDescription key in info.plist is required.

Contacts

10.11+

⚠️Uses Private API for calling permissions, because public one is not working properly. See rdar://34158737

NSContactsUsageDescription key is required in Info.plist

Reminders

10.9+

NSRemindersUsageDescription key is required in Info.plist

Photos

10.13+

⚠️Works only for Photos Extensions. See rdar://34431396 and rdar://43426722

NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription key is required in Info.plist

Full Disk Access

10.14+

Since there is no legal API to request Full Disk Access permissions on macOS 10.14, this is the only workaround to get and ask for it.

⚠️There will be no callback when requesting this type of permission, so you should use your own implementation such as polling permission status, or use other events to handle possible permission change (for example handle NSApp foreground/background status).
Calling for permissions opens Preferences->Privacy with selected “Full Disk Access” section.

Application Sandbox:

PermissionsKit can be used in sandboxed applications. It uses multiple files to check for FDA status in case some of the
tested files are unaccessible due to reasons unrelated to FDA (not present on older systems, UNIX permissions, etc.)
The files are:

• ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
• ~/Library/Safari/CloudTabs.db
• /Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db
• /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
  Your app needs to be able to access those files under sandbox. You can do it using Security-Scoped Bookmarks flow(e.g. having a bookmark for root folder), more details in apple documentation
  Or for testing purposes you can add temporary-exception to your .entitlements file.

<key>com.apple.security.temporary-exception.files.home-relative-path.read-only</key>
<array>
	<string>Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist</string>
	<string>Library/Safari/CloudTabs.db</string>
</array>
<key>com.apple.security.temporary-exception.files.absolute-path.read-only</key>
<array>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db</string>
    <string>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist</string>
</array>

For more details please check Full Disk Access details.

Installation

CocoaPods

PermissionsKit is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'PermissionsKit-macOS'

Carthage

PermissionsKit is available through Carthage. To install it, simple add the following line to your Cartfile:

github "MacPaw/PermissionsKit"

Manual

For manual installation just choose the latest available Release and drag and drop the framework to you project. (You may also need to add it to Embedded Binaries).

Requirements

macOS 10.9+
However different kinds of permissions require different system version it is safe to call for authorization witout actual system check. MPAuthorizationStatusAuthorized will be returned in this case.

Example

See PermissionsKitTestApp target

Useful links

• Full Disk Access
• Contacts
• Calendar, Reminders
• Photos
• tccutil

License

MIT License

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