macOS 15 Sequoia pop-up for Local Network access

wsapplesupport
New Contributor II

We deploy a number of security products that require specific privacy preferences be set so that users don't block them from working. A couple recent deployments I've witnessed a new privacy pop-up for local network devices. I'm using JAMF Pro 11.9.0, but do not see any privacy preference options for this new Sequoia option. Anyone else seeing this or perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place. Just wanted to confirm with the community before raising it to support.

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wsapplesupport
New Contributor II

Should have included in the original post, but I did run across this post with the usual Apple response

https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/762848

AJPinto
Honored Contributor III

Welcome to macOS 15. It's not that Jamf does not have a button for Local Network Access, it's that Apple does not make a key pair to manage this. The best suggestion I have is to submit feedback to apple, but don't expect this one to be changed.

YanW
Contributor III

Also need help with that

jamiesmithJAX
New Contributor III

as @AJPinto we are at Apple's mercy on this.  I spoke with my account rep about it and they mentioned that I am not alone in this complaint (as well as the 30 day screen sharing authorization) and for whatever it is worth all the customer feedback is being brought back to the team that makes the decisions.  To me this is reason enough not to offer Sequoia to the end users for as long as I can avoid it

pchrichard
Contributor

I was about to post the same question, has anything at all been released for additional privacy overrrides, such as the system window picker/screen recording?

emanueldiaz_09
New Contributor III

I hope they find a solution for this quickly.

For those that use NoMAD to communicate with on premises servers it broke the communication. Also broke communication with apps that communicate within the network for casting (I am in education).

You just have to allow the apps, but would be nice if we can get a plist or json file to do this across our fleet. 

AJPinto
Honored Contributor III

For those that still use NoMad, retire it now. Not tomorrow, retire it now. If you are still using NoMad you are brokering credentials on a fully end of life product that has not been patched in 10 months and will never receive another patch.

https://www.jamf.com/blog/jamf-to-archive-nomad-open-source-projects/

jel-gherson
New Contributor III

We are also being impacted by this. Whilst the Screen Sharing/Recording change was heavily discussed before Sequoia was released, this 'Local Network' change seems to have been more under the radar.

In our case the main impact we are having is with the PaperCut client for a managed print solution. 

All these changes may have some justification based on improving security but they have been making the user experience much worse since IT departments cannot pre-solve these things until they are triggered and each has to be individually done, this is particularly an issue for remote workers where IT will not even see the laptop beforehand and which is increasingly common these days.

kevinstrick
New Contributor

Agree-- We also have a bunch of security products that produce these pop-ups-- I would be nice if we could automatically allow these on supervised/ADE enrolled devices. I commend apple on transparency with privacy to the end user and all, but in a corporate environment it can be a big pain, and bad user experience. And if the user says no to allowing access, it effects operation of those products