[Bug]: macOS is constantly telling me "Ice is Accessing Your Screen"

[andynormancx]

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Description

I understand that Ice needs to access my screen and I understand that the changes in macOS mean that the OS is going to remind me of this sometimes.

However at the moment macOS is popping up the "Ice is Access Your Screen" almost every time that I click on a menu bar item. I assume this is something broken in macOS, but in case it something in the app I'm raising this.

Sometimes macOS will forget for a few seconds that it needs to nag me. The Ice icon will disappear from the top of Control Centre and it will stop nagging me. But then a few seconds later the icon is back in Control Centre and the nagging starts again.

I've tried removing and re-adding the permissions.

Also the number it shows of the times that Ice has accessed the screen/audio keeps going up and down, it isn't just counting upwards as you'd expect. In the few minutes after first posting this bug it went up to 12, then down to 2 and now up to 3 🤷🏼

Steps to Reproduce

1. click on a menu bar item
2. almost every time the "Ice is Access Your Screen" warning pops up

Ice Version

0.11.12

macOS Version

15.2

Screenshots

[jordanbaird]

Are you running one of the macOS 15.2 betas? This was a problem with screen capture apps in general, but it seems to have been fixed for the final release.

[andynormancx]

No. I ran some of the iOS and iPad betas, but I didn't run the macOS beta and I'm on the current release version.

[jordanbaird]

So after doing some digging, this does indeed look like a bug in macOS. It seems to only affect some users. I found this script that may help.

Alternatively, some people found the following steps to work (I've specialized them for Ice):

1. Quit Ice
2. Manually set the date on your Mac to 2040
3. Relaunch Ice and open Menu Bar Layout settings or show the Ice Bar to trigger screen recording
4. Set the date back
5. You may have to quit and restart Ice again

If neither of these things work, hopefully Apple fixes this in the next update, as there isn't really anything actionable we can do otherwise.

Here are some links I found with more info:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255886645
lwouis/alt-tab-macos#3973

[andynormancx]

Thanks so much for digging into that Jordan, I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't go and investigate the general problem.

I've used the script to tweak the dates and that has fixed it for now.

[SpyCoder77Alt]

Thanks so much for digging into that Jordan, I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't go and investigate the general problem.

I've used the script to tweak the dates and that has fixed it for now.

And by saying for now, you mean until 2040 lol