Anyone get "'Unity Hub' would like to receive keystrokes from any application" pop up message..

Updated to Mac OS Catalina today and opened Unity to be greeted with a message saying "'Unity Hub' would like to receive keystrokes from any application".

The two options are "Open System Preferences" or "Deny"

Has anyone else received this as well when using Unity or know what it could be relating to? Did a Google search and couldn't find anything and Unity still seems to run fine with the message in the background.

 

This is a screenshot of the message in question.

 

Unity Hub is a standalone manager for Editor installations and projects. Its default path for Mac is here "/Applications/Unity/Hub/Editor".

If it's not launched directly it will still run silently in the background whenever the Editor's launched, despite my request to disable this behaviour.

It appears to be listening to keystrokes which is a major security concern... Hit "Deny" and/or kill the process whenever you run the Editor(it's not required).

 

Thanks for your reply, grizzly. Yeah, I've noticed that Hub tends to run in the background, even when I quit the 'Unity Editor' program itself. I've since selected "Deny" and it hasn't seemed to affected the project as far as I can tell. Thanks again.

 

Are they serious ? Why on earth they want to capture the keystrokes ...not cool unity.

 

As above, Unity why do you need to capture keystrokes outside Hub? Guessing there is a reason but is that poor engineering or feature we don't really need. Explain.

 

I had exactly the same on my MacBook, MacOS Catalina. Without hesitation denied!! It gave me a creepy feeling. On top of that, wondering whether any functionality would be hampered by this denial?

 

Same thing for me. This is a huge concern as this means Unity Hub is capturing passwords. Furthermore, that means that the poor Windows users are most likely still getting their keystrokes captured. Will someone from Unity please address this?

 

So it's not just Unity Hub. I just had a report that my game is producing this dialog when run on macOS 10.15.

It is a properly signed and notarized standalone application (not through Apple Store yet).

Is there an entitlement I need to set to turn this off? I can't find one...

 

I got this message today and hit "deny" - no application should have that power. I wonder why U3D needs that,
Other strange thing I noticed - I am not sure is related - is that when you close the editor, although the hub is running on the background, its window do not show again, even switching to it.

 

Some applications have global shortcuts so that you can invoke the app even when it doesn't have focus. Indeed, shortcut managers must rely on this. As such, they watch for specific keystrokes and take control. Apple have changed their policy and clearly think this is something that should be approved, rather than assumed. I guess that Unity initialisation must try and take hold of the keyboard in some way that now needs this permission.

You can deny it for now and allow in the future, if an issue should arise.

 

I got this too. What are they trying to do?! Why do they need keystrokes!? would recommend switching to unreal engine.

 

ok, bye bye... you could not become a good artist, programer, game designer or what so ever, when you can decide that quickly to change platforms.

 

See this thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-hub-a-security-risk.759851/