How can I reset Contact access permission, so OS X will ask again?

Question

I know I can turn on and off permission in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Contacts, but what I want to do is force OS X to ask for permission again. This is for testing purposes... I.e. I maybe have a bug that gets triggered when the permission request dialog is shown.

Any ideas where the "asked" flag is being stored, so I can blow it away? I've checked in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ and a bunch of other obvious places.

Avian

Answer 1

Just needed to do this myself...on the command line do:

tccutil reset AddressBook

Edit: This will reset for all apps that have requested access.

To reset only for a single app, just add the bundle id

tccutil reset AddressBook com.id.bundle

thanks Colin for your comment bellow.

Laceration

This works great, however I'd just like to point out, that it will also clear all your other apps existing permission settings. – Fugato

worth noting that you can add a bundle id to the end of this command to make it only clear one app – Exeter

Answer 2

Solution is Go to General - Reset - Reset Location & Privacy.

Overmodest

Thanks! This also works as a way to reset photo permissions in iOS 6. – Clypeate

In fact that ONLY works to reset permissions in iOS. The question was about Mac OS – Avian