Apple to tighten Mac privacy controls, warns of rising AI agent risks

Apple is reframing Full Disk Access from a power-user toggle into a friction point deliberately aimed at the agentic AI wave, and the absence of named developers suggests the target is the category, not any single product. The practical effect lands on Mac-based AI tooling and automation startups that have quietly relied on broad file access to make agents useful, since explicit consent breaks the seamless onboarding those products depend on. Whether Apple extends the same logic to iOS and whether developers build narrower, permission-scoped agents or route around the Mac entirely is the open question.