A toggle and a grant are two different things
This distinction matters, because they can disagree.The toggle is yoursIt records what you want Pomeroy to do. It lives in Pomeroy’s settings, and
Pomeroy obeys it. Switching an app off takes its tools away from every
assistant immediately.
The grant is macOS’sIt is the operating system’s answer to a permission request. macOS owns it,
stores it, and is the only thing that can take it back, in System
Settings → Privacy & Security.
What each app asks for
Switching an app on is the only thing that ever triggers a macOS prompt, and it prompts only for that app.
Maps and Weather have no prompt of their own: MapKit and WeatherKit answer any
app that asks. For those two the toggle is the entire gate, which is why they
still start off.
Mail, Notes and Shortcuts are asked for separately. macOS prompts once per
app Pomeroy sends an Apple event to, so approving Mail says nothing about
Notes. You will see up to three prompts, not one.
Messages is different
Your messages live in one file,~/Library/Messages/chat.db, which macOS
guards behind Full Disk Access.
Pomeroy does not ask for Full Disk Access, and will not. It is one switch that
would hand Pomeroy every file on your Mac, including your mail, your browser
history and your backups, in order to read one database.
Instead, switching Messages on opens a standard file dialog at
~/Library/Messages with chat.db already selected and every other file greyed
out. You hand over that one file. Pomeroy keeps a read-only bookmark to it, and
holds no grant over anything else on your Mac.
The full
reasoning.
What Pomeroy will never ask for
Two grants are permanently out: Accessibility and Screen Recording. That refusal is worth more than a promise, because you can check it yourself. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. Pomeroy is not in the list, because it never asks. It costs real features, such as knowing which window is frontmost or attaching a screenshot to a support report. They are declined on purpose. Why the refusal binds the grant, not the use.Changing your mind
1
Open Settings
Click the Pomeroy icon in your menu bar and choose Settings.
2
Switch apps on or off
The same grid from setup. Switching an app on for the first time asks macOS
for its grant; switching one off takes its tools away at once.
3
Take a grant back, if you want to
Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and remove Pomeroy from the
relevant list. Pomeroy reads grants live and never caches them, so it
notices straight away.