A keystroke logger is a form of malware that can monitor your activities through listening to what you press on your keyboard. This permission is potentially allowing a keystroke logger to run on your Mac. I would not allow it under most circumstances. I read this it's well known discord asks to access (all) keystrokes for it's 'Push to Talk' feature Does this mean "Applications" = Discord?Īlso, the question about what this grants access to is indeed explained: this does(!) grant the application(s) access to all keystrokes whether using that app or other apps! (it's not clear whether the app has to be open for the keystrokes to be collected). Some that were open at the time were desktop versions of whatsapp, discord and slack, as well as chrome, sublime text, and terminal.Īfter clicking 'Open System Preferences' I see 'Discord' is the only application shown. Several applications were open when this prompt appeared, and so I do not know which one caused it.I'm not sure if this permission grants certain application(s) access to keystrokes only while the application is actively being used, or even while not in use?.I'm not sure if "Applications" means all applications in the Applications directory, or something else?.nothing to worry about)? Or is this something suspicious (like some program imitating or posing as something harmless)? Some concerns Is "Applications" referring to everything in the Applications directory? Is this a common request on macOS (i.e. A google search for the exact quote reveals very little.
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