Remove macOS Sequoia Screen Capture Notifications

With a recent macOS Sequoia update, apps capturing your screen would trigger a new notification that shows next to the menubar. For apps like AltTab which take screenshots of your screen for their functionality, this results in a constant flood of notifications every time you use the app.

Apparently, this new “feature” was not on purpose. It should show a notification once every 30 days. But through some misconfiguration of the timestamps in the ScreenCaptureApprovals.plist file, the notification was not limited to 30 days. To fix this, find the file with:

open $HOME/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.replayd

and move or delete the ScreenCaptureApprovals.plist file from the opened folder. Then directly restart your Mac. The macOS system will automatically rewrite the file with corrected timestamps and the screen capture notifications don’t show up anymore.