Full Disk Access Really Does Mean Full Disk Access

Yes, they will spin and spin, but, in general, Apple doesn't outright lie. For example, remember when Apple was asked why apps on iOS couldn't have the similar relaxed restrictions like apps on macOS? Craig Federighi, back in 2021, said: Today, we have a level of malware on the Mac that we don't find acceptable. If you took Mac security techniques and applied them to the iOS ecosystem, with all those devices, all that value, it would get run over to a degree dramatically worse than is already happening on the Mac. Today, Apple announced it will "introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of [Full Disk Access] can only do so with very explicit user action." In other words, you will have to jump through a lot more hoops if you want an app to have access to all the files on your hard disks, to make sure you really mean to "expose everything on their systems" to the specified apps. I guess AI bots can be considered as…