Why does indesign need access to my contacts . . .

[johnatarc]

Can I ask the simple question of why indesign has asked to access to my contacts? The more paranoid half of me would think that Adobe would love to correlate my contacts with other users . . .

[Grant H]

i cannot say I have ever seen that...!

[Peter Villevoye]

I've never seen this prompt, and I wouldn't trust it !

Unless you're using some plugin intended do do something with data merging contacts or something like that, I'd say your installation of InDesign has been corrupted. Have you been using this installation of InDesign before without this notice, or did this occur right after a fresh install of InDesign or other application ?

[Laubender]

Hi together,

Adobe posted this three days ago:

Adobe apps want to access my Contacts or Calendar

Solution

If you encounter this prompt, simply select Don't Allow. It will have no impact on the operation of your Adobe apps. The prompts should only happen once per app (per security category). When you update your Adobe app to a new version, macOS remembers your earlier choices and won't prompt you again.

Regards,
Uwe

[Barb Binder]

Yikes. I've never seen that message before either, John. What version of InDesign are you using and did you download it directly from Adobe? Are you running any third-party plug-ins?

~Barb

[Gusgsm]

Perhaps related?

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

David Baxter, who is Adobe staff, provided an answer in the posting that @Gusgsm linked to, and it is about as authoritative an answer as you'll find. Here's what David says:

"I agree with others here that this prompt is related to some of the new security features with Mojave. It only appears once, and only under certain conditions. It is not unique to Adobe, please see this discussion for Atom (open source text editor) where they were trying to understand the cause too. macOS Mojave: Atom requests access to Contacts and Calendars · Issue #17687 · atom/atom · GitHub"

[Frans v.d. Geest]

The moment I try to do a SEARCH in an Open or Save dialog, this happens in most programs, it is Mac OS related and has nothing to do with InDesign itself.