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title: Resetting access to protected resources in macOS
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# Resetting access to protected resources in macOS

Use Terminal to remove your app’s authorization access to protected resources during testing.

## Overview

Overview The first time your app attempts to access a protected resource such as Reminders or the microphone, the system prompts the person for permission. After the person grants or denies your app’s request for access, the system remembers their choice. For more information, see Requesting access to protected resources. During development, you might need the system to prompt the person for permission again — to test your app’s onboarding experience, verify that your purpose strings appear correctly in every language you support, or reproduce a bug that only occurs before the person grants access. To make the system prompt the person again, use the tccutil reset command in Terminal. The tccutil reset command requires a service, each protected resource has a service name. By default, the command affects only your current user account. To reset access for all user accounts on your Mac, run the command with sudo. To learn more about tccutil, enter man tccutil in Terminal. Reset access To reset access to a specific protected resource for every app, enter tccutil reset with the service name: % tccutil reset <service> For example, the following command resets access to Calendar for every app: % tccutil reset Calendar The next time any app attempts to access Calendar, the system prompts the person for permission. To reset access to a specific protected resource — in this case Calendar — for a single app, add the app’s bundle ID to the command: % tccutil reset Calendar com.example.company To reset access to all resources at once, pass All as the service name: % tccutil reset All The next time any app tries to access any protected resource, the system prompts the person for permission. To reset access to all resources for a single app, add the app’s bundle ID: % tccutil reset All com.example.company Look up a service name The <service> argument accepts the following values. When applicable, each entry includes the privacy usage description key to add to your app’s Info.plist.