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

Fix it darn it!!!!! If photoshop and InDesign don’t ask this, why is Illustrator doing it? Please prioritize this fix it’s been like a month!

Totally downloading Affinity right now. I’ve been an Adobe user for over 20 years, but this is just the last straw. How can this not be a simple fix? And NO, I’m not giving ANY app full disk access. Ridiculous suggestion!

It would be really cool if people would stop suggesting that giving in and allowing Adobe to have full disk access is an acceptable “workaround.”
 

Yes, it will stop the messages from popping up. Yes, it’s annoying that apparently there are extra steps to do this for Illustrator. But the bigger problem is that Adobe seems to be attempting to force, coerce and trick users into allowing full disk access, every single time any Adobe program is opened. For what? Why should I risk my security so that Adobe programs can talk to each other, or whatever other nonsense this is even about? Aside from the infuriating pop-ups, all of my apps have always worked perfectly fine without full disk access. My computer says no, and so do I.

I am experiencing the same on a brand new Mac Studio M4 Max with 36 GB Ram.
I tried restarting Illustrator with a preferences reset, uninstalling and re-installing it through Creative Cloud. Nothing seems to help…

Don’t know if it’s related but about 75% of the times when quitting Illustrator I also get the loading beachball of MacOS.

When going to Security & Privacy in my Mac’s Settings other Adobe applications have ‘Full Disk Access’ and ‘Files and Folders’ allowed. But Illustrator is not showing in the list.

⚠️ Important Notice

This is a critical procedure. During these steps, all Adobe-related data on your system will be removed, including application settings, preferences, cache files, and logs. These files will be permanently deleted.

I personally resolved this issue using the steps below.

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Operating System: macOS Tahoe 26.3 (25D125)

1. Remove Adobe Illustrator via Terminal:
   sudo rm -rf "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2026

2. Clean residual files via Terminal:
   rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/*
   rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.*
   rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.*
   rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/Adobe/*

3. If you are the only user on the system, grant yourself admin privileges via Terminal: sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a $(whoami) -t user admin

4. Perform a clean installation of Adobe Illustrator using Adobe Creative Cloud.

5. ***After installation, go to Settings + Privacy & Security. Scroll down to “Full Disk Access” (this step is critical). Click the (+) button and select “Adobe Illustrator.app” from the Applications folder.

6. Restart your computer. The issue should be resolved.

This is a problematic situation.

Same thing has been happening t me since updating and I dont want to give it full access when I dont even understand what that actually means. It getting really annoying at this point to keep denying it.

This feels pretty clearly like a bug to me, if only that Allowing it (granting it permission) register for longer than the session (Lightroom wasn’t this way). AND after I Allow, opening Privacy Full Disk, Illustrator doesn’t even appear on the list, allowed or not. You need to manually add it. This is also not how other apps work.

Same issue occurring with me, but I was getting a continuous 224 error if I selected Don’t Allow. It suddenly resolved when I allowed. Dirty Tricks