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

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
February 18, 2026
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After the last update of the application, the following pop-up appears every time after launching:

How can I stop it?

Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer Harshika Verma

Hi @Robbe32229705vq9e,

Thank you for reaching out. We completely understand how frustrating this situation can be, and we appreciate your patience.

As Anubhav mentioned earlier, this is a known issue, and our team is actively working on a resolution. In the meantime, you may try a workaround by granting Full Disk Access through your macOS settings, as this has helped stop the prompt for some users.

Additionally, since Illustrator is not showing in the list, could you please let us know what happens when you click the “+” icon at the bottom and try to manually add Illustrator?

If the issue persists, we recommend using the Cleaner Tool to perform a fresh uninstall and reinstall of Adobe Illustrator.

Please let us know how it goes or if you need any further assistance. We’re here to help

Thanks,

Harshika
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missodessa

Participant

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.

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punkaag

Participant

“I dont want to give it full access when I dont even understand what that actually means.”
This comment really should be upvoted

Miraud

Participant

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.

ehh_d

Participant

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

sskaz

Inspiring

I had been fine clicking Don’t Allow every time, but now I just had to migrate my Adobe account with my employer’s new Adobe Team profile, and I started getting error 224 in Illustrator (After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop are fine).

Now I have to click Allow to get Illustrator to launch and it infuriates me. Though to be fair, they’ve always had to ability to mess with my system, see the recent unauthorized /etc/hosts file modifications nonsense.

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello everyone,

Thanks for reaching out. Adding to the expert suggestions, this prompt is coming from macOS privacy controls, not from Illustrator itself. To prevent it from appearing, go to System Settings > Privacy and Security > Full Disk Access and ensure Adobe Illustrator is enabled.

For reference, you can also take a look at these similar discussions where the same behavior was resolved by granting full disk access: https://community.adobe.com/questions-606/cc-library-asks-for-permission-every-time-i-restart-my-mac-580498 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255856376

Please let us know if the message stops appearing after this. Looking forward to your update.

Anubhav

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halogen88

Although giving Illustrator ‘Full Disk Access’ may solve the issue of the prompt appearing, it doesn’t clarify what Illustrator is doing that causes MacOS to show this Security and Privacy prompt to users. Why does Illustrator want/need Full Disk Access?

sskaz

Inspiring

Adding on to this. Please don’t tell your customers to give apps full disk access—ever. Most of them are not security experts and every time a developer tells customers to do it, you’re making your customers think these security prompts are just something to ignore instead of giving serious consideration to, and will make them more likely to permit it when there’s a serious malicious threat.

Find out what in your apps is prompting for permission and fix it. Talk to Apple if you need to.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

I had this message in Illustrator Beta. Giving Illustrator Full Disk Access in System Settings > Privacy & Security solved the problem for me.

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P E T R O V?Author

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I don't have the beta version installed.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Did you try it? May work as well with your installed version.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Please refer to this post from the Lightroom community: https://community.adobe.com/questions-675/after-mac-os-and-lr-update-adobe-lightroom-classic-would-like-to-access-data-from-other-apps-978490#:~:text=Why%20does%20the%20message%20talk,We%20don't%20know%20yet.

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emolen

Participating Frequently

../TLDR- Nothing to see here.

TLDR - the issue started 1 year ago for lightroom users; thread has 4 replies with ~4 comments on each reply; one user believes they resolved their issue by removing a plugin named Luminar 4; there are no official solutions offered; there is some critique and concern; one community expert sounded off ‘…so give it the permissions it asks for! If you don't trust Adobe, then don't use Lightroom Classic or any other Adobe apps. If you do trust Adobe, then do not deny these kind of dialogs if you want your Adobe apps to function properly. They do not ask permissions for the fun of it.’; I saw no Adobe Community Manager response whatsoever; there was no response more recent than ‘1 year ago’ when I read through the thread; if you got nothing from this you won’t likely get anything from that...

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