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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.

performance

Correct answer jane-e

I’m not sure this is an Adobe issue. There are several threads in the Apple forums about other apps.

I am on macOS and am also getting this annoying alert.

Jane

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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.

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.

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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