Cant access local network on latest macOS version

Bug Reports
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After the last update on macOS I cannot access the local network from Cursor anymore. For example if I ping a local network IP from the integrated terminal I get this:

➜ ping 192.168.1.76
PING 192.168.1.76 (192.168.1.76): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4

And this works in my other terminal apps, as well as in VSCode. I noticed that I get the same behavior from the other apps if I, in macOS, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network and switch them off.

However, Cursor. does not appear in that list. From some lite research about it, it seems that apps can’t be added manually to it and it’s up to Cursor itself to ask for that access. I don’t know why this happened now and worked before.

Not being able to access the local network from the integrated terminal leave me with the alternative to use an external terminal app instead, which is not as nice :slight_smile:

Hardware info:

Macbook Pro M4
MacOS 15.4.1 (24E263)

Cursor info:

Version: 0.49.5
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: fd861c8a80c0f9e4e35294b1915ee8a7b29ae850
Date: 2025-04-24T03:21:20.123Z (1 day ago)
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.4.0
2

I had to allow Cursor to see Local Network again after I updated.

  1. Open System Settings (Cmd + Space, type System Settings).
  2. Navigate to:

Privacy & Security > Local Network

If you see Cursor there, make sure it has a green indicator that it is allowed to see your local network.

3

Alright, in that case it’s something wrong with my setup perhaps. Since Cursor does not prompt me about access, nor does it show up in the list of apps in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network. I’ve tried making a fully clean install of Cursor and that did not help so I’m not really sure what to do here :confused:

4

Now I solved it by making a full uninstall and installed an quite a lot older version (which I imagine has a different bundle ID(?)). With that version I got prompted for Local Network access and it started showing in the Local Network view in system settings. After upgrading to the latest version it seemed like it stopped working again, but then I could go to Local Network in system settings, switch it off and on again, and then it started working again :man_shrugging:. Apparently this can with any app if the initial Local Network prompt show how bugs out. Anyways, this is what helped me, incase someone else runs into this wried issue.