Full Disk Access on Mac: Here’s what Apple must, and must not, do

Apple said it will introduce additional controls around macOS Full Disk Access after reports that Meta's Muse app, granted full disk access, analyzes users' communications with everyone in their life on an hourly basis. Apple called the development concerning and is tightening the privacy controls that enabled the problems.

We’ve seen a number of examples of why giving Meta’s Muse app full disk access to your Mac https://9to5mac.com/guides/mac/ is a very bad idea https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/28/yeah-dont-give-metas-muse-app-access-to-your-mac/ , and yet another major privacy https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/ issue has recently been discovered. It’s now been found that Muse analyzes your communication with everyone in your life on an hourly basis. Apple https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/ is rightly concerned about the development, and in a blog post says that it will be introducing additional controls https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/02/apple-says-its-tightening-macos-privacy-controls-amid-the-rise-of-ai-agents/ around the Full Disk Access feature that’s been enabling the problems …