Fact · Voice privacy and security
Apple says that when you give an app access to your Mac, you also give it access to your contacts, calendar and other information, and that the app is then subject to its own terms and privacy policy rather than Apple's.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“If you give apps access to your Mac, you also give them access to your contacts, calendar, and other information”
Allow accessibility apps to access your Mac, Apple Support, Mac User Guide, 2026, Allow accessibility apps to access your Mac.
Open the original- What it measures
- Apple's Mac Help page on accessibility apps. It describes the alert a Mac shows when a third-party app asks to access and control the Mac through accessibility features.
- What it does not show
- The sentence is general and does not list which data a given app reads. Apple's wording covers what the grant allows, not what a particular app does with the data.