How to turn off Input Monitoring for a Mac app

Revoke an app's keyboard observation permission in macOS, verify the effect and distinguish stopping access from uninstalling the app or its integrations.

Turn off an app’s Input Monitoring access in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Input Monitoring. That stops the authorised observation path; it does not uninstall the app or remove files it already created.

Change the intended entry

Identify the application by name and the copy you actually use. Toggle its permission off and follow any macOS request to quit or reopen it.

If you are testing a typing sound utility, type in a harmless document afterward and inspect its status. TapNoise should report that the permission is needed rather than continue ordinary system-wide keyboard feedback through that access path.

Understand what remains

Revoking a permission is not a data-deletion command. Preferences, activity counts and agent integration entries can remain until you remove them through the product’s documented process.

An app can also have separate Accessibility permission. Review that list independently if your intention is to stop optional control features as well.

Re-enable only for a reason

If you decide to use the feature again, return to the same list and grant access deliberately. Do not toggle unrelated permissions as part of the test.

For complete removal, uninstall TapNoise in order, including agent connections and any license seat you want to free. For a required feature that stopped after an update, see permission identity checks.

Sources: Apple’s Input Monitoring controls, TapNoise uninstall steps.

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