macOS Sonoma Network Priority, suppress "Allow accessory to connect?" prompt

Two things came up using my Thunderbolt 2 dock with my MacBook Air M2 running macOS 14 Sonoma. The first, I noticed it was using my spotty WiFi connection instead of the faster, reliable wired interface in the dock. Today I learned you can Set Service Order and configure the order in which macOS tries network interfaces (VPN connections are always at the top of the list and tried first, apparently):

Network Systems Settings page with Set Service Order... selected
Network Systems Settings page with Set Service Order... selected

Huzzah. Next, every time I connected the Thunderbolt hub, I was getting a pop-up I had to clear, which was annoying:

Pop-up asking "Allow accessory to connect?" when plugging in Thunderbolt 2 Dock
Pop-up

Under Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security and find the "Allow accessories to connect" setting, and tweak to taste:

Accessory connection security setting
Accessory connection security setting

Running smoothly now.

High density area, too many radios... At a glance I see 33 WiFi networks, including (11) 2.4 GHz and (22) 5 GHz networks, with no channels free of direct or neighboring channel interference, sigh...

Comments