I have given location permission for the app i'm developing. Now i need to reset location permission and want to see the permission pop-up.
I have tried tccutil reset and /var/db/locationd/clients.plist is not accessible. Both are failing even with sudo.
Please suggest any methods.
System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Location Services
Allow the apps and services below to determine your location.
Choose the app, and untick it's permission.
These steps only disables permission. But i need to reset permission to default. It should ask for allowing location permission popup on opening app after resetting.
Have you tried deleting the app, then re-installing it?
I have the same issue. I tried to delete /var/db/locationd/clients.plist and /private/var/db/locationd/clients.plist after booting into single user mode and the clients.plist reappears as it was before.
As suggested above, I also deleted all copies of my app without success.
The specific problem I have is that "System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Location Services" does not show my app but the clients.plist still contains two entries and seems to be somehow corrupted. So I am in eager need to delete or modify the plist.
Any solution on this? Running macOS 12.4
Did you ever find a solution?
Nope
My solution was found on superuser.com questions/526183
since apple does allow me to post the entire url.
you basically make a copy of clients.plist, convert it to xml, edit to remove the app you do not like, convert it to binary, restart killall locationd
Doesn't work for me.
When I try to copy or modify that file I just get flooded with 'Operation not permitted', even as the root user.
File in question has the following permissions: -rw-r--r-- 1 _locationd _locationd 15927 Jan 9 13:37 clients.plist
since apple does allow me to post the entire url.
DevForums does let you post arbitrary URLs, you just have to do it in the ‘clear’. Like so:
https://superuser.com/questions/526183/remove-applications-from-location-services-in-security-privacy-on-mac-os-x-10
See tip 14 in (the increasingly inaccurately named) Quinn’s Top Ten DevForums Tips.
Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"
Change the bundleID temporarily (repeatedly if needed) and it should treat the app as a new entry and pop up the message. Once you get the behavior you want, set the bundleID back to the original one.
