Per the tccutil(1) man page, you can clear Contacts privacy preferences with
the shell command
tccutil reset AddressBook
The "why" string comes from the NSContactsUsageDescription ("Privacy - Contacts
Usage Description" in Xcode) key in Info.plist:
$ defaults read "/Applications/iWork
On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Manfred Schwind wrote:
> when an app tries to access the contacts (via Address Book Framework), OS X
> recently asks the user first if this should be allowed. This question is
> asked only once per app, then the app is "on the list" and this list can be
> seen in S
Am 17.09.2012 um 09:48 schrieb Manfred Schwind :
> Furthermore I am not entirely sure, but I think when this contacts questions
> was asked for Pages I saw a description WHY Pages want to access the
> contacts. But I could not find any API to set such a description. So my
> second question is
Hi,
when an app tries to access the contacts (via Address Book Framework), OS X
recently asks the user first if this should be allowed. This question is asked
only once per app, then the app is "on the list" and this list can be seen in
System Preferences - Security & Privacy - Privacy - Contac
