Access to microphone requested. For what?
samuelb opened this issue · comments
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📝 Description
Hi
Since a few days, macOS prompts me to allow access to the microphone for Gitify. This popup appears every time Gitify shows me an notification about a new or updated PR.
I find this suspicious, since this tool shouldn't require the microphone for anything. Or does it?
I installed Gitify with Homebrew and the version is 4.6.1. My files in the /Applications/Gitify.app folder matches the once from the downloadable zip from Github.
Why does Gitify require microphone access?
🪜 Steps To Reproduce
Not sure if this is a occurrence specific on my system and therefore I don't know really how to reproduce this on any other system. I basically installed and configured Gitify. Then it starts to prompt for microphone access when PR activity in my repos would show a notification in Gitify.
ℹ System Info
MacBook Air M1 macOS 14.3📸 Screenshots
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This is weird. I'm also on macOS 14.3 with Gitify 4.6.1 installed via Homebrew, and I don't experience it. I checked Settings > Privacy > Microphone, and Gitify isn't listed. I don't know all the lines of the codebase, but I'm pretty confident we haven't added something to do with a mic in recent releases. Given you're the only person who's reported this, it's more likely something about your setup.
I get the same request and do not like it
Macbook M3 Pro, macOS 14.3 (23D56)
+1, Apple M1 Pro, Sonoma. Reproducible by quitting and starting again, but stops if clearing all notifications before quit.
Gitify is listed under Settings > Privacy&Security > Microphone.
EDIT: Actually (since I don't want to allow access), the application is currently unusable, I get three consecutive dialogs for mic access every time there's a notification.
I found this when searching the apps plist
adam@air ~ % grep Microphone -A 1 /Applications/Gitify.app/Contents/Info.plist
<key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app needs access to the microphone</string>
@afonsojramos - could this be linked to the warning in the v4.6.1 release notes - re the macOS build being built on your machine until we resolve #696
Searching for all mentions of access returns
adam@air ~ % grep access -B 1 /Applications/Gitify.app/Contents/Info.plist
<key>NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app needs access to Bluetooth</string>
<key>NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app needs access to Bluetooth</string>
<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app needs access to the camera</string>
--
<key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app needs access to the microphone</string>
none of which are part of our entitlements file - https://github.com/gitify-app/gitify/blob/main/entitlements/entitlements.mac.plist
NSMicrophoneUsageDescription
This app needs access to the microphone
I tried searching for this too in my local repo, the only place it came up was in node_modules/electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Info.plist 🤔
Yeah and the first place I checked on was Electron's setting to ask for mic, but there's nothing in this repo about that. Super weird. Is there something about the build process that introduces it?
That's very weird... I'll see if the switch to electron forge fixes this by any chance.
I also wonder if the electron upgrades will help.
I discovered that the microphone permission prompt wont show up if "Play sound" in Gitify is turned off or when having a bluetooth headset connected.
Just to make sure I understand: you're saying this prompt only happens if:
- "Play Sound" is enabled in Gitify, AND
- You have a Bluetooth Headset connected, AND
- You receive a new notification
Is that right?
Prompt happens if:
- "Play Sound" is enabled in Gitify, AND
- You don't have a Bluetooth Headset connected, AND
- You receive a new notification
Sorry when my wording was not clear in my previous message.
Wow super weird. Thanks for the clue!
Labeling this as documentation. We can look to update both the README, and the FAQ for gitify.io
#970 will remove these from the macOS builds going forward