"Adobe Illustrator 2026.app" would like to access data from other apps."

If you do any cursory research into the data harvesting that goes on, yes the pop-ups can be annoying but I love that Apple lets me know when software wants to mine my data. There is no legitimate reason Adobe Illustrator should have access to any of my data on other apps. It will work perfectly fine if you hit “Deny.”

This is a normal macOS privacy permission prompt in many cases. It's always a good idea to verify why an app needs access before clicking "Allow." 

It is irrelevant if other organisations are doing this. Some organisations steal from their customers, that doesn’t mean it is the right thing to do. It is Adobe that repeatedly ask you the same question every time you open Adobe Illustrator, not Apple. The fact that this is again highlighted as the “correct answer” is laughable. The correct answer would be:  “Hi, I am a senior Adobe Dev and our team have just sorted this, so the next time you update Adobe Illustrator you will only see this request once” 

Hi - agree with everyone that this is too invasive and I am not comfortable allowing full disk access. This has been going on now since the update. It isn't an issue for the other programs. When will this be fixed. Thanks

I agree with those that say that it is not an acceptable work around to grant Adobe access to private information. It’s invasive. I’m disappointed in Adobe. I don’t feel they are on the side of the small consumer anymore. 

“you may try a workaround by granting Full Disk Access through your macOS settings, as this has helped stop the prompt for some users.”

Let's be clear. You are advising your customers to break their own security protocols, and those of their clients because Adobe have forgotten how to write competent software?

This is just unacceptable. Why would illustrator need full access to all my data? can anyone from done give clarity about this? 

Why is this still an issue? No, I am not giving Adobe full permission to access my apps. Why can’t it be fixed? It wasn't in a previous version. No wonder folks are switching to Affinity.

​@Harshika Verma, “you may try a workaround by granting Full Disk Access through your macOS settings” is not an acceptable workaround and should not be the correct answer. I don’t want Illustrator having access to other apps. This is poor security management and a poor workaround solution for users. Especially if users don’t understand why that’s a workaround. None of my apps have full disk access and they have never needed full disk access to function. Illustrator should be no different.

For users reading this, you do not need to give an app Full Disk Access unless that app really needs access to all (or most) of your data on your computer. So, do not grant an app Full Disk Access unless it truly needs broad access to your data. In most cases, only disk utility tools that manage or erase system data require this access.

What I’m experiencing with this issue: I clicked “Allow” and checked for Illustrator’s app permissions in my system settings. I don’t see Illustrator under Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access and I don’t see it anywhere else under the Privacy & Security settings, so this issue seems more like an annoying bug that doesn’t actually do anything accept keep asking you to Allow/Deny access to other apps. Looks like ​@Miraud has seen the same thing, so I agree with this being a bug. A really annoying one and I hope the intent around this issue is to collect data from Adobe apps only, not other apps.