Mac security and privacy check: settings, permissions and access

Seven checks, one place

macOS spreads this information across System Settings, Terminal commands and log files. The Permissions group brings it together:

• Security Settings checks SIP, Gatekeeper, FileVault, the macOS firewall, XProtect, automatic security updates and apps missing a security fix, and scores them out of 100.
• Privacy Access lists the apps you allowed to use the camera, microphone, screen, Full Disk Access and more, including apps that are no longer installed.
• Privacy Cleanup clears browsing history, cookies, caches and macOS's recent items, without touching saved passwords.
• Browser Extensions lists the extensions in each browser and what each one may do.
• App Signatures checks that each app is signed by a known developer, checked by Apple, and unchanged since.
• Wi-Fi Security shows how the network you're on is secured.
• Sudo Activity lists the commands run with sudo in the last 30 days, from the system log.

It reads, you decide

The security and permission checks only read. Tidy My Mac never switches a security setting or a privacy permission itself: each fix opens the right page in System Settings, where macOS confirms it's you making the change. Privacy Cleanup is the one page that removes anything, and what it removes goes to the Trash, so you can put it back. Everything is checked on your Mac, and the Privacy Policy lists what the app reads and every request it makes.