Comment by al_borland

I hope they will at least prompt the user to let them know what’s going on. I’ve run into this before on macOS, where an app wouldn’t launch, and on a hunch I went into the security settings and saw a section there were it was blocked and I could allow it. There was not even a hint of this in the error message when trying to launch the app. It was a very poor experience.

I’ll also be curious if placing the app in ~/Applications avoids the restriction. This has long been my way to get around some of the restrictions at work. /Applications requires admin rights, ~/Applications does not. Apps still show up in LaunchPad and work as normal (as far as I’ve seen), they are just only available to the user, instead of all users, which is fine for my situation. I used to have to request admin rights every time VS Code wanted to update on my work laptop, but since I put it in my user folder instead, it’s been smooth sailing.