Cannot allow apps to access location

[Nucha Powanusorn]

Is it just me or I can't find anywhere to allow other apps like Chrome, Firefox, etc. to access location?

 

[bogdanw]

"By default, Chrome asks you when a site wants to see your location."
"If you're using Chrome on a Mac desktop, you may get a notification that "Location is turned off in your Mac system preferences." To update your computer's location preferences, follow the onscreen instructions."
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142065

 

[DanRyb]

You're in the right spot. But I am guessing it's something to do with the beta. I just bought a new Mac and updated to Sonoma beta rather quickly after setting it up because I wasn't experiencing any issues with it on my previous laptop. But now I've noticed with Microsoft Edge, the app itself has never prompted me to use my location like Apple's did on first launch. Therefore, the location settings within Edge are useless. Mac OS is not providing location access to Microsoft Edge. I don't know of a workaround.

My previous older Mac I had updated from Ventura (actually whatever was before that lol) so I had already granted location access to these apps and I didn't realize an issue. I checked out that same spot on it before wiping it clean and third party apps were in that same section.

 

[clingfreeze]

Same. Yes, this is a bug since Dev Beta 1. I haven't found a way to add apps to the list to access location.

 

[bogdanw]

I don't know if it works in Sonoma
"tccplus - tccutil with extended capabilities allowing you to grant/remove accessibility permissions to any app"
https://github.com/jslegendre/tccplus

 

[galad]

An app has to request the access, you can't manually add them, same as Ventura.

 

[luckman212]

most likely related or identical bug now affecting 13.5:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/13-5-location-privacy-broken.2396788/

 

[clingfreeze]

New Dev Beta 4 (23A5301g), still ucked.

 

[luckman212]

great so literally no current OS, beta or not, has working location services...

 

[Dog Bone Malone]

Aye. Weather widget and system settings has location services enabled, but won't load on actual widget!

 

[clingfreeze]

I just updated NetSpot (Free) to the newest version, and the app asked me to be added to the location services. And this time it worked. That did not work with the previous versions. It seems that apps need to be updated to work with the new location services in Sonoma and Ventura, which seem to have an additional safety hurdle built in.