Throughout this Summer I’ve been enduring the notification harassaments from Apple asking me if I’m really reallllllly certain that I do in fact want the app that I’ve used for nearly a decade to absolutely for sure function the way I want it to. 

I know everyone in tech ridiculed them for this, but maybe Qualcomm was onto something when they talked about Apple’s annoying popups. 

Recently Jason Snell talked about this very thing, although I can’t remember the exact episode. 

So what am I talking about? As a Mac user I regularly use apps to record portions of my screen. Between Loom, Droplr, Screenshot X, Zoom, and others it’s a crucial part of how I do my work that I record my screen. 

When I go to load one of these Apple puts a popup asking me if I really want the app to do this, and then I can say no, or remind me in a month. There’s NO way to disable this. 

Apple assumes that I’m not smart enough to know which app I want to use and what it does. So they harrass me week after week (thankfully once a month with the final release of the new Mac update), and ask me if I’m really certain I want these apps to continue doing what they’re doing. 

And here’s the thing, these notifications don’t actually know whether the app has changed in anyway that might be dangerous for me, it just assumes that I shouldn’t be using them. 

This is ridiculous.

Enter Amnesia, a tiny app that makes this disappear forever. Thankfully I can control my device enough to fix this. But it’s incredibly frustrating.