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App Sandbox on macOS 14 Sonoma

NotNotch’s deployment target is macOS 14, so App Sandbox is built to run on Sonoma and later. File pickers use the user-selected read-write entitlement rather than a blanket home-folder grant.

Last updated 2026-02-28

Why Sonoma is the floor

The SwiftUI notch host and several system APIs assume macOS 14. App Sandbox follows that floor.

Later systems

The same App Sandbox path is intended to keep working through macOS 27 without bumping the minimum.

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