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title: 'Security Settings Prevented'
url: 'https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/security-settings-prevented-wacom-software'
markdown: 'https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/security-settings-prevented-wacom-software.md'
lang: en
date: '2021-04-27'
description: "Wacom vs. Big Sur 11.3 Update I updated to the latest version of macOS Big Sur (11.3). In previous versions I'd already had to tick a box to allow the Wacom tablet and pen to access the computer. But there's another update now and everything broke. The tablet buttons worked fine, the pen didn't at …"
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - Wacom
    - macOS
    - 'Big Sur'
  category:
    - fotografie
    - 'informační technologie'
  '':
    - ''
  archives_year:
    - '2021'
---

# Wacom vs. Big Sur 11.3 Update

I updated to the latest version of macOS Big Sur (11.3). In previous versions I'd already had to tick a box to allow the Wacom tablet and pen to access the computer. But there's another update now and everything broke. The tablet buttons worked fine, the pen didn't at all. Couldn't tap, couldn't press the button. Well, technically you could, but nothing happened on screen.

![A macOS dialog: "Security settings prevented the Wacom Software from posting an event", with instructions for allowing it in Security & Privacy](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/user/pages/05.blog/57.security-settings-prevented-wacom-software/t3w7ka3vn4w31.png "Security Settings Prevented Wacom from posting an event")

My first stop was the official Wacom forum, where the advice was the classic: uninstall and reinstall the driver. Make sure everything is deleted. I did that, everything was where it should be but still nothing. I tried logging out, logging back in, restarting — none of it helped.

Nothing left but to keep searching. I found the fix on [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/gv26va/security_settings_prevented_the_wacom_software/). After a successful reinstall I removed all the Wacom entries from System Preferences. Restarted the computer, plugged in the tablet via USB and waited. Notifications started popping up asking for permissions to access this and that — I approved all of them and suddenly it worked.

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I **held off** on migrating because of my tablet driver (Wacom). **Wacom** sent all customers an email asking them to wait — the **tablet might stop working**. Why they didn't sort out the driver in advance I don't understand, and maybe I don't want to.

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