Setting your Mac to open apps from unidentified developers

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if you want your mac to allow apps from unidentified developers, you’ll have to follow a few additional steps. firstly, try to open the unrecognized application. you’ll see a notification that it can’t be opened. then, follow the instructions: 

• open system preferences.
  
• click on security & privacy, then go to the general tab.
  

• you’ll see the message “[app] was blocked from opening because it is not from an identified developer.” clicking the button next to it marked “open anyway.” 
  

• you’ll be asked again if you’re sure you’d like to run the app. click the open button to run it.
  

these steps allow you to open this app whenever you’d like. you should remember, though, that gatekeeper won’t allow you to open apps that contain malware, even after following these steps.