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How to authorize Dr.Fone - Data Recovery to access iTunes backups on Mac?

Recently, Apple has updated macOS Mojave (10.15) in order to provide better performance and experience. However, you may have found that Dr.Fone - Data Recovery fails to detect iTunes backups on a Mac computer that runs OS 10.14. And our program will also pop up a window saying "Access to iTunes backup is limited. To access backups, you need to complete the authorization at first."

As you can see, it is because Apple blocks the permission of backup in MacOS 10.14 and 10.15. Here, we provide this detailed guide to help solve this issue with just a few clicks. Please follow the steps below:

1. Click the Apple logo at the upper left corner of the screen, then click System Preferences.

2. Click Security & Privacy option.

3. If you have set the lock for your computer, please type the password to unlock your computer.

4. Click Full Disk AccessPrivacy

5. Right-click on Dr.Fone - Data Recovery program icon, then highlight “Options” and choose “Show in Finder”.

6. Press and hold the left mouse button to move the “Dr.Fone - Data Recovery” icon to “Full Disk AccessPrivacy”.

7. After adding Dr.Fone - Data Recovery, you will see it in Full Disk Access. Then restart Dr.Fone - Data Recovery to detect your backups.

8. Well done!

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