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

Forum|Forum|29 days 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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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

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.