Repeated request for microphone permission on iOS Simulator

Question

I'm working with Xcode 10.1 (10B61) on an app that needs permission to use the microphone. (Almost) Every time I start the app from Xcode (in simulator) I get a system popup:

"Appname" would like to access the microphone "Privacy - Microphone Usage Description"">

It doesn't matter if I select "Don't Allow" or "OK". This message keeps popping up. How can I fix it?

Update [fixed]

This issue seems to be fixed in Xcode 10.2 👍

Answer 1

You can get rid of this following this steps:

1. Go to "Security & Privacy" Settings on macOS.
2. Select "Microphone" on the left panel.
3. Uncheck the Xcode option on the right panel.

Answer 2

Edit:

Unfortunately it looks like the following procedure is just a temporary fix. After some time the dialog started appearing again. Repeating the procedure fixes it for an additional period of time.

---

I had the same problem and what helped in my case was disabling and then re-enabling microphone permissions in the the Simulator.

Steps to fix:

• go to Settings app in the Simulator
• find your app settings page within the Settings app
• disable microphone permission (or any other permission that is causing trouble)
• re-enable microphone permissions

After this procedure, the microphone permissions dialog stopped appearing every time I would run the app.

Note that I did run the app with the permissions disabled and navigated to the point where permissions are required before re-enabling them (but I don't think that's required).

Hope this helps, it did in my case.

Answer 3

After looking for a workaround this one seems to fix it for me: In Simulator go to Settings > Your App > Disable the Microphone Access

Update: Not solving this issue but might be helpful: You can dismiss the popup via Esc key - that should be way faster than clicking a button

Answer 4

Another work around is to check if the app is running in the simulator and disable the audio code:

struct Platform {
  static var isSimulator: Bool {
    return TARGET_OS_SIMULATOR != 0
  }
}