Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 Privacy and screen recording

Question

Hey everyone, I’m running into a pretty concerning issue with Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 on macOS.

When I launch Premiere, macOS asks me if I want to allow “screen and system audio recording.”
I always hit Deny in the popup.
Despite this, macOS still shows a banner saying “Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 is capturing your screen”, and in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording, Premiere shows up as if it has access.

Screenshots: (attached)

This is especially worrying because I’m working on a project under NDA, and I cannot risk any unauthorized screen/audio capture.

My questions:

Has anyone else seen this behavior with Premiere Pro or other Adobe apps?

Is this a bug in macOS (permissions not enforced) or in Adobe Premiere itself?

Is there any way to permanently block Premiere from even requesting screen/audio recording?

Could this be related to background Adobe processes (Creative Cloud, CoreSync, etc.)?

Should I escalate this as a security/privacy vulnerability to Apple/Adobe?

I’ve already removed Premiere from the allowed list in System Settings, but the popup keeps coming back and it still claims to be “capturing.”

Has anyone managed to fully disable this? Any help would be huge.

Thanks in advance

R Neil Haugen · Answer

What is your audio hardware preference set to? For most normal purposes, it should be None. Then Premiere simply uses the default system setting.

As to that warning ... Premiere never actually uses the camera of the system webcam, period. However, to be able to do voice-over recordings, it needs permission to use the audio part of the webcam system. And as the system doesn't know the difference, it 'thinks' Premiere wants access to the camera ... when Premiere doesn't even have any process anymore to use 'live' capture video.

So there is never any issue of privacy.

It only wants the ability to use your mic to do voiceovers that you request.

And there are thousands of daily users, some with NDA's enforced by people carrying sidearms, shall we say? ... that work in Premiere every day.

I might be acquainted with such things myself, but then, maybe not ... 😉

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