How can I remove Applications from Security & Privacy?
Solution 1:
To remove all apps from a particular Privacy category, open Terminal.app and type the following command, then type the Return key:
tccutil reset CATEGORY
where CATEGORY is one of:
- Accessibility
- AddressBook
- AppleEvents (i.e. Automation)
- Calendar
- Camera
- Microphone
- Photos
- Reminders
- ScreenCapture (for the Screen Recording list)
- SystemPolicyAllFiles (for the Full Disk Access list)
- SystemPolicyDesktopFolder
- SystemPolicyDeveloperFiles
- SystemPolicyDocumentsFolder
- SystemPolicyDownloadsFolder
- SystemPolicyNetworkVolumes
- SystemPolicyRemovableVolumes
- SystemPolicySysAdminFiles
If you want to remove only a particular app, you need to first determine its Bundle ID. Once you know that, issue the command:
tccutil reset CATEGORY BUNDLEID
Note: Specifying an app's Bundle ID appears to require macOS Mojave (10.14) or later.
You could also remove all apps from all categories:
tccutil reset All
Though this might freeze your Mac on macOS 10.15 and later, see comment below.
In the example given in the question, the following commands would remove Terminal and Chrome from Calendars.
First, determine their Bundle IDs:
osascript -e 'id of app "Terminal"'
shows com.apple.Terminal. Same for "Chrome" gives: com.google.Chrome. Now we can reset them:
tccutil reset Calendars com.apple.Terminal
tccutil reset Calendars com.google.Chrome
Pro tip:
This is a one-liner doing the same:
tccutil reset Calendars `osascript -e 'id of app "Chrome"'`
More info in this blog article: Managing Mojave’s privacy protection: Privacy controls.
Solution 2:
I tried clicking on the application you want to remove, but not the checkbox and then clicking the remove button (-). It worked for me, but I'm not sure if it will work for others as of yet.