
I will also give some troubleshooting guides on how you can set up your HP printer wirelessly in different ways via the HP Smart app or Mac’s Image Capture. In this post, I will discuss various ways to scan using your HP printer on your Mac. As a result, the quality of Windows has massively improved over the past 5 years.If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. They had been run by business people, and now they're full of technical leadership. Meanwhile, Microsoft had the opposite happen. Now it seems like they're run by business people who are more interested in pumping stuff out than actually having it be any good. In the time since, they've lost all the talent. Obviously the software Apple acquired from NeXT was great, but I think they also got a lot of great engineers and managers out of that. Apple's offerings have turned to absolute garbage over the years. I was finally able to get my photos off of my phones using a Chromebook!Īpple's only solution was to use iCloud Photos. I cannot get *any* Mac to see my iPhones, from macOS 10.12 through 11. This forum has been my life for the last four years with my iPhones: Image Capture/Preview/Photos is why I am moving to Android/Windows. This article will be updated when Apple releases a macOS update with a permanent fix.

If you later choose to scan from a different app and get the same error, repeat these steps.

The error message starts with: "You do not have permission to open the application."Īffected users have shared complaints about this issue across the Apple Support Communities, Reddit, HP Support Community, and elsewhere. The message says to contact a computer or network administrator for assistance, or indicates that the Mac failed to open a connection to the device. When attempting to use a scanner with a Mac, Apple said users might get an error message indicating they do not have permission to open the application, followed by the name of the scanner driver. A screenshot of the error message from the HP Support Community
