Two things can be true: 1. This is for Push to Talk (PTT), and is not meant maliciously. 2. It's not good that an app is asking for this permission. For #2,

Two things can be true: 1. This is for Push to Talk (PTT), and is not meant maliciously. 2. It's not good that an app is asking for this permission. For #2, I'm not sure, but think the issue might be that Apple's system doesn't allow for sufficiently fine-grained permissions. Certainly that has been a repeated problem for other apps, as Apple has tried to improve end-user security. Binding a hot-key to an action shouldn't require knowing anything about the stream of characters that a user is typing. But when the permission model isn't specific enough, that's what you get. I think Apple's approach is mostly good (being able to listen to keystrokes without permission is very bad), but it has some costs.