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

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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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nopeynope

Participant

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.

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Robbe32229705vq9e

Participant

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.

Harshika Verma

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Community Manager

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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theryzor

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The continued inclination to offer unnecessary privacy invasion as a workaround to this issue is making Affinity sound pretty good.

Mahmut Ucar

Participant

⚠️ 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)

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

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/*

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

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

***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.

Restart your computer. The issue should be resolved.

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Christopher36675825znc3

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Mahmut Ucar

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This is a problematic situation.

mahmutucart

emolen

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Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello everyone,

Our team is currently investigating the issue. We will keep you posted as we have more updates.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have more questions or need assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Anubhav

nopeynope

Participant

While we’re waiting, would you please tell us how to revoke access when we accidentally click allow because this window pops up every single time we open any adobe app? Thanks.

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello @nopeynope

The permission for Full Disk Access can be revoked at any time from the System Preferences (https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/video/allow-permissions-video.html).

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have more questions or need assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Anubhav

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

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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

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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.