Polishing Alfred's Onboarding Experience

Even between major updates, our approach for Alfred has always been one of steady, ongoing improvement. Sometimes, it's through bold new features, but more often, it happens through incremental, subtle refinements to the user experience. A speed improvement here, an efficiency tweak there.

Alfred Onboarding

Alfred's onboarding and migration process is one of our recent areas of focus; It has always been very functional but, over the years, Apple has made the process of requesting permissions a little fussier with every macOS version. We wanted to make this experience more polished and streamlined for new and existing users.

In an upcoming update, when you install Alfred fresh or upgrade from an earlier version, you'll see this new tidy configuration screen, where you can easily pop up the relevant macOS permissions and confirm they've been granted with clear checkmarks.

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