That is the whole reason we ask. It is the preview you already know from your Mac - when you switch desktops or apps, you see the actual windows, not a row of icons. TypeJump shows you the same thing.
Without it, four open Chrome windows look like four identical Chrome icons. With it, you see the page in each one. Same with Outlook - a dozen identical mail icons, or the actual emails. Same with Word and Excel - the app icon, or the document you are looking for.
You can decline, and the app works perfectly.
You can allow it, and get a much nicer experience.
Either way, everything TypeJump does stays the same.
And nothing is ever recorded. The pictures live for the second you are choosing, then they are gone.
Hold ⌃C. This is the entire difference.
Four identical icons. You count positions and hope you picked the right one.
You see each page and pick the one you meant. Everything else - jumping, typing to filter, voice - works identically in both.
Apple uses one single switch for everything visible on your screen. Recording a video of your whole desktop sits under it - and so does reading the little bit of text in a window's title bar. There is no separate, gentler setting for just the names.
Apple named that one switch after the most serious thing it allows. Window switchers, screenshot tools and note-taking apps all end up behind the same alarming label. The name describes what the switch permits - not what any particular app does with it.
TypeJump does the small thing. It reads names, and it shows you a picture of a window while you are choosing it. That is the extent of it.
You do not have to believe any of this. Each of these takes a moment.
macOS shows an orange dot in your menu bar whenever an app is capturing anything. Open the switcher and watch it: the dot blinks on for a moment and is gone. If TypeJump were recording, it would simply stay on.
System Settings › Privacy & Security › Screen Recording › switch TypeJump off. Everything keeps working. Only the small pictures disappear. That shows you how little depends on it.
Every release of TypeJump is signed and reviewed by Apple before it can be installed. That is the same check behind every app you download outside the App Store.
It lives in your system settings, not inside TypeJump. Only you can turn it on, and you can take it back whenever you like. The app cannot grant itself anything.
No. Not us, not anyone else. The pictures are drawn on your Mac, shown for the second you are choosing, and gone. They are never saved and never sent anywhere.
Yes. The permission stays under your control in system settings and macOS enforces it - TypeJump only gets what you allow, and only while it is running. Apple reviews every release before it reaches you. And if you ever change your mind, one switch takes it back.
You keep the whole app. Shortcuts, jumping, hiding, the switcher, typing to filter, voice - all unchanged. You see names instead of pictures. Plenty of people use TypeJump exactly this way and never turn it on.
Nothing. No names, no pictures, not even how many you have open. The only thing we ever learn about this setting is a single yes or no - whether people turn it on - which is what told us this step confuses so many, and why this page exists.
Any time. Skip it now and try TypeJump without it - if you later wish the pictures were there, TypeJump's settings take you straight to the right place.
