[fan711]

Description

The cross-platform Permissions option has no effect on macOS. It is honoured on Linux (#5552) and on Windows through WebView2, but WebviewWindowDelegate — which is set as the webview's UI delegate — does not implement webView:requestMediaCapturePermissionForOrigin:initiatedByFrame:type:decisionHandler:, so nothing on that platform ever consults it.

Left unimplemented, WebKit takes the request's default action, which on Cocoa is promptForGetUserMedia (UserMediaPermissionRequestProxy::doDefaultAction). Capture therefore works today — but macOS behaves as though the option were permanently PermissionDefault, and PermissionAllow and PermissionDeny are silently ignored.

Implementing the delegate against the same option gives them their meaning there:

Permission	macOS decision
PermissionDefault	WKPermissionDecisionPrompt — WebKit's own prompt, which is what already happens today
PermissionAllow	WKPermissionDecisionGrant
PermissionDeny	WKPermissionDecisionDeny

So a window that does not configure Permissions behaves exactly as before. PermissionAllow is the case that matters in practice: for a window that only ever loads the app's own content, WebKit's prompt asks a question the user has already answered by clicking the button that called getUserMedia, and granting leaves just the one system prompt that actually gates the device.

A request for the camera and the microphone together (WKMediaCaptureTypeCameraAndMicrophone) gets a single answer, and it is no more permissive than either half on its own: deny beats prompt beats grant.

Two notes on the implementation:

• Permission and WKPermissionDecision happen to agree case for case (0/1/2). The mapping is still written out rather than cast — an agreement between two unrelated ABIs is not something to build on.
• The delegate method is macOS 12+, so it carries API_AVAILABLE(macos(12.0)) and is never called below that. macOS 11 is unaffected.

This does not replace NSCameraUsageDescription / NSMicrophoneUsageDescription, or the sandbox's com.apple.security.device.audio-input / .camera where an app is sandboxed. Those still gate the device; this only decides whether the request reaches them.

Fixes #6067 — filed by @Grantmartin2002 in review. This was found while adding voice recording to a Wails v3 app and had no issue behind it until then.

Related: #3735 is useful background on the Info.plist / entitlement side. #4270 is not fixed by this and I am not claiming it is — that report is about wails3 dev, and the triage there (an unbundled dev binary that TCC cannot attribute) is a separate problem with its own fix.

Type of change

Please select the option that is relevant.

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• WEP (proposal only; no implementation)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

No WEP: this adds no public API and proposes no new behaviour. Permissions, PermissionType and Permission are all existing public API, and the default case is unchanged. Happy to convert it if you read it differently.

Documentation

features/windows/permissions.mdx said the map was ignored on macOS, in four places — the platform section, the media-capture pattern, the support matrix and the troubleshooting entry. All four now describe the two layers: the policy answers WKWebView's request, and TCC still gates the device underneath it, so PermissionAllow drops WebKit's prompt but not the system one. The matrix reads like Linux — camera and microphone ✅, the other three ❌ not yet, since they have no WKUIDelegate equivalent. The id/ translation is updated in the same commit, which is what the recent history of that tree does.

The page also warns about a trap this option creates on macOS, which @Grantmartin2002 raised: a capability that reaches AVFoundation with no usage description string does not fail — the OS terminates the app. PermissionDefault is the zero value, so {PermissionMicrophone: PermissionAllow} on its own leaves the camera on WebKit's prompt, and an app declaring only NSMicrophoneUsageDescription dies if the user accepts it. The advice is to set PermissionDeny explicitly for anything you have no usage string for.

How Has This Been Tested?

Not on macOS — I do not have Mac hardware, and I would rather say so than tick a box. Please treat the macOS column as unverified.

@Grantmartin2002 has since reviewed it there and reports go vet, go build and go test ./pkg/application/ clean, the WKPermissionDecision cases matching the SDK header, and no warnings from recompiling the .m at the package's 10.13 deployment target with -Wunguarded-availability-new.

What I did verify, on Linux:

• permissions_darwin_test.go (new) pins captureDecisionPrompt/Grant/Deny to 0/1/2 — that is the thing which makes the hand-written mapping safe rather than lucky. It also covers the strictest-wins rule from both argument orders, the Permission → decision mapping, and the lookup: an unset entry, a window with no map at all, and a window the manager no longer knows about. Same darwin && !ios && !server tags as the code it tests.
• To run it here, the test file and the non-cgo half of permissions_darwin.go were temporarily copied into pkg/application without the build tags and run on Linux against the real App and WebviewWindow. All cases pass. The copies were then deleted — none of that is in the branch.
• The Go half type-checks and builds. permissions_darwin.go was temporarily retagged linux && cgo && !android && !server and built as part of pkg/application, which exercises the cgo signature, the *WebviewWindow cast and the Permissions lookup. Clean.
• gofmt clean, and the Linux and Windows paths are untouched.
• Both permissions pages compile as MDX (@mdx-js/mdx), including the new <Aside> and the code block inside it.

The Objective-C in webview_window_darwin.m has been reviewed but not compiled by me.

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

Linux: Debian 13, GTK 4.18.6, WebKitGTK 2.52.3 — only to confirm nothing regressed there, since this change does not touch Linux.

Test Configuration

wails doctor is not meaningful here — this is verified by compilation and unit tests rather than at runtime, and not on the platform it targets. Built against master (f2260d1).

Checklist:

• (v2 only) I have updated website/src/pages/changelog.mdx with details of this PR (v3 changelog entries are added automatically)
• My code follows the general coding style of this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• My changes generate no new warnings
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

On the unticked boxes:

• v3 changelog. The checklist says v3 entries are added automatically, but CONTRIBUTING.md asks for v3/UNRELEASED_CHANGELOG.md to be updated by hand. I followed CONTRIBUTING and it is a separate commit — say the word and I will drop it.
• Warnings. I cannot compile the Objective-C, so I cannot claim this myself. @Grantmartin2002 has confirmed it on macOS.

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Edited: the first version of this description claimed WebKit denies capture when the delegate is unimplemented, and that getUserMedia therefore never worked on macOS. That was wrong — @coderabbitai caught it. doDefaultAction prompts on Cocoa, and has done so at least as far back as the safari-613 branch. The fix is real but narrower than I first described, and I have corrected the code comments and the changelog entry to match.

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• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed macOS getUserMedia support for camera and microphone access in web views on macOS 12 and later.
  • Media permissions now honor configured settings consistently with Linux and Windows.
  • Requests for multiple media devices apply the strictest applicable permission decision.

• Documentation

  • Updated macOS permissions guidance, support details, troubleshooting, and usage-description requirements.
  • Added a changelog entry documenting the macOS media-capture permission improvement.

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Walkthrough

macOS WebKit now handles getUserMedia requests through WKUIDelegate. The implementation resolves configured camera and microphone permissions per window and returns the result to WebKit. The documentation describes TCC checks and macOS usage-description requirements.

Changes

macOS media capture permissions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Permission resolution and validation v3/pkg/application/permissions_darwin.go, v3/pkg/application/permissions_darwin_test.go	Adds native Go decision helpers, per-window permission lookup, strictest-wins handling, and Darwin-only tests for capture decisions.
WebKit capture bridge v3/pkg/application/webview_window_darwin.m	Adds the C bridge and the macOS 12+ WKUIDelegate callback for audio and video capture requests.
macOS permission documentation docs/src/content/docs/features/windows/permissions.mdx, docs/src/content/docs/id/features/windows/permissions.mdx, v3/UNRELEASED_CHANGELOG.md	Documents WKWebView and TCC behavior, support limits, usage-description requirements, troubleshooting, and the released change.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WKUIDelegate
  participant resolveMediaCapturePermission
  participant PermissionResolver
  participant decisionHandler
  WKUIDelegate->>resolveMediaCapturePermission: pass window ID and requested devices
  resolveMediaCapturePermission->>PermissionResolver: resolve camera and microphone permissions
  PermissionResolver-->>resolveMediaCapturePermission: return grant, prompt, or deny
  resolveMediaCapturePermission-->>WKUIDelegate: return WKPermissionDecision
  WKUIDelegate->>decisionHandler: pass the decision to WebKit

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[fan711]

Both findings were right. Thanks — the first one was load-bearing and I had it backwards.

On the WebKit fallback. I claimed WebKit denies a capture request when the delegate method is unimplemented. It does not. UIDelegate::UIClient::decidePolicyForUserMediaPermissionRequest calls request->doDefaultAction(), and on Cocoa that is:

void UserMediaPermissionRequestProxy::doDefaultAction()
{
#if ENABLE(MEDIA_STREAM) && PLATFORM(COCOA)
    if (requiresDisplayCapture())
        promptForGetDisplayMedia(UserMediaDisplayCapturePromptType::UserChoose);
    else
        promptForGetUserMedia();
#else
    deny();
#endif
}

deny() is the non-Cocoa branch. I checked main, safari-613-branch and safari-7614-branch — it has prompted on Cocoa throughout, so my claim was not merely out of date, it was wrong.

That changes what this PR is. getUserMedia does work on macOS today via WebKit's own prompt; what is broken is narrower and still real: the window's Permissions are never consulted, so macOS behaves as though the option were permanently PermissionDefault and PermissionAllow / PermissionDeny are silently ignored. Since PermissionDefault maps to WKPermissionDecisionPrompt, a window that does not configure the option behaves exactly as before.

The code did not need to change — the mapping was already right — but the reasoning around it did. I have rewritten the comments in both files, the commit message, the changelog entry and the PR description, and force-pushed.

On the changelog scope. Applied. It now reads:

Fix the Permissions option being ignored on macOS 12 and later: the WKUIDelegate media-capture method is now implemented, so PermissionAllow and PermissionDeny apply to camera and microphone requests as they do on Linux and Windows. NSCameraUsageDescription / NSMicrophoneUsageDescription and, where sandboxed, the matching device entitlements are still required

One thing I withdrew on my own account. The first description speculated that the triage on #4270 might be incomplete, on the strength of the same wrong premise. It was not incomplete — @leaanthony's explanation holds, and I have removed that passage. Apologies for the noise.

Standing caveat unchanged: I have no Mac and the Objective-C has never been compiled, only reviewed. Verification on macOS 12+ would still be very welcome.

[Grantmartin2002]

The code looks right to me — built it on macOS 26.6/arm64, and the hand-written mapping matches WKPermissionDecision in the SDK header. One thing I think blocks it though.

The docs page for this option still says the feature doesn't exist. docs/src/content/docs/features/windows/permissions.mdx has "The map is currently ignored on macOS", a support matrix listing macOS as "TCC only" for camera and microphone, and a troubleshooting entry telling people it has no effect. Worth folding in the point from your description while you're there — TCC still gates the device, so PermissionAllow drops WebKit's prompt but not the system one.

A test pinning captureDecisionPrompt/Grant/Deny to 0/1/2 would be worth having too. That's the invariant you avoided casting for.

No linked issue, so I opened #6067 if you want to Fixes it.

[Grantmartin2002]

One more for the docs change, if you take it — on macOS, Prompt for a capability whose Info.plist usage string is missing just gets the user a dialog the platform can't honour. NSCameraUsageDescription / NSMicrophoneUsageDescription have to be declared, and a missing key is a TCC violation rather than a graceful denial. #3735 was closed by documenting exactly those two keys, and #4270 is the neighbouring dev-mode case where TCC attributes to the terminal running the binary instead of the app.

So {PermissionMicrophone: PermissionAllow} on its own is a bit of a trap: camera stays unset → Prompt, and an app that only declared the mic key gets asked for something it can't deliver. Harmless on Windows and Linux, macOS-only, and it only becomes reachable once there's a map to configure.

Something like "set PermissionDeny explicitly for capabilities you haven't declared a usage string for" would cover it. We got bitten by this in an app that grants mic and denies everything else, which is why I noticed.

[fan711]

Thanks — that is a thorough pass, and the docs gap was a fair block. All of it is in, in two commits on top of the two you reviewed.

Docs. permissions.mdx is rewritten in the four places you listed, and the id/ translation is updated in the same commit — that is what the recent history of that tree does (#5883 is the pattern).

The macOS section is two layers now rather than one: the Permissions map answers WKWebView's request, and TCC gates the device underneath it. PermissionAllow drops WebKit's prompt but not the system one, and no app can grant itself device access — that is stated in the section text, in the policy table, and again in troubleshooting, because you are right that it is the thing people will get wrong. The matrix reads ✅ / ✅ / ❌ ❌ ❌ for macOS, mirroring Linux, with a line under it saying what ✅ means there. It also now says that below macOS 12 the delegate method does not exist, so the map is ignored on those versions.

The Info.plist trap. Added, as a caution in the macOS section and as a troubleshooting entry ("My macOS app quits when web content asks for the camera or microphone"). Thank you for that one — I would have shipped the option that makes it reachable without ever mentioning it. The page says to set PermissionDeny explicitly for any capability you have no usage string for, and uses {Microphone: Allow, Camera: Deny} as the example, since PermissionDefault being the zero value is exactly what turns a half-configured map into a crash rather than an oversight.

Tests. v3/pkg/application/permissions_darwin_test.go, same build tags as the code it tests. TestCaptureDecision_Constants pins Prompt/Grant/Deny to 0/1/2 against WKPermissionDecision — agreed that this is the thing which makes writing the mapping out safe rather than merely tidier. Beyond that: the strictest-wins rule from both argument orders, the Permission → decision mapping, and the lookup (unset entry, window with no map, window the manager no longer knows about).

To get the camera-and-microphone combination reachable from a plain Go test, resolveMediaCapturePermission is now only the cgo boundary — one line down to mediaCaptureDecision(uint, bool, bool), which is what the tests call. No behaviour change.

I still cannot run them on macOS. They pass here, but by copying the test file and the non-cgo half of permissions_darwin.go into pkg/application without the build tags and running that on Linux against the real App and WebviewWindow; the copies were deleted and none of that is in the branch. So go test ./pkg/application/ on a Mac is worth one more run from you, if you are still willing.

Template and issue. The body was on the template, but the documentation box genuinely was not ticked — that one and the tests box are now, and the description says Fixes #6067. Thanks for filing it; it states the problem better than my description did.

No need to push the docs yourself. If the TCC-layering wording reads wrong to you on the rendered page, say so and I will take it.

[leaanthony]

Ported the authored macOS permissions documentation to M-Press in 995d961, including the existing Indonesian changes and updates to all other eight translations. The ten pages now describe the WebKit/TCC layers, macOS 12 requirement, usage-description warning, permission matrix, and troubleshooting consistently. The new microphone-only Go example matches across every language.

Dependency: merged #6137 at 7b0f6dc; the PR now targets codex/mpress-markdown. Original implementation edits are preserved, with current-base changes merged safely. Removed the obsolete Indonesian Starlight source left by the modify/delete conflict; its authored content is ported into Markdown. No translation sidecar state or audit settings were changed. Pushed fast-forward to the original fork branch as taliesin-ai.

Validation: M-Press 1.0.17 build --strict --no-purge-css, link/asset check, and rendered-site check passed (2,010 content pages; 2,011 HTML pages; zero site errors). The documented permission-map example compiled and passed its local Go check on Linux. Manually reviewed the docs, locale/code parity, and the preserved implementation diff. Native WKWebView/TCC runtime tests require macOS and were not run on this Linux host.

Known gate: the global translation audit remains failing (7,676 findings versus 7,678 on the pinned migration base); findings outside the permissions page are unchanged. The migration-wide audit blocker remains separate work, with the gate enabled. coderabbit --plain was attempted but unsupported; the one narrow fallback review hit the shared rate limit. No usage credits were spent.

[leaanthony]

Stefan, I am sorry. PR #6050 contained the actual Darwin implementation and tests, but it was closed when its temporary migration base branch was deleted after the docs merge, which stranded your work. I also mischaracterized it earlier as documentation-only — that was wrong.\n\nI recovered the code, tests, changelog, M-Press docs, and translation-audit updates in replacement PR #6144: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/pull/6144\n\nThe new PR preserves you as co-author.