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Forticlient VPN issues on macOS

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
July 30, 2025
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I am trying to install the FortiClient VPN on my mac (macOS 15.5)

I get the following error - however, when navigating to the open Security & Privacy Settings I don't see the FortiClient.

I only see the following in my network extensions.

The only place, I see Fortitray is in my VPN panel. However, there I cannot toggle it to enable it.

I tried to see other post, but none of them seemed to fix it. Do you guys maybe know the solution to fix this?

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msanjaypadma

Staff

Hi @dcremers ,

Can you try mentioned in below article :

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiClient/Technical-Tip-Error-To-connect-to-a-VPN-with-FortiClient-open/ta-p/371589

Thanks, Mayur Padma

dcremersAuthor

New Member

Hi @msanjaypadma,

As you can see, I already tried this in the screenshot above. However, Fortitray.app is not listed there to enable it. Do you maybe know why?

msanjaypadma

Staff

HI @dcremers ,

Can you try reinstalling it and reboot once?

Thanks, Mayur Padma

sharmar

Staff & Editor

Hello @dcremers

On your Sequoia, Could you please Go to System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions > Network Extensions and then toggle on the Fortirtay, Forticlientproxy and FortiClientPacketFilter.

Ref : https://docs.fortinet.com/document/forticlient/7.4.3/macos-release-notes/223986/special-notices

Thanks

liam-

New Member

Hi,

For anyone who finds this via Google in future and wants a potential answer to the question rather than the 'didnt read the question' answers above:

I found attempting to make a connection, and then going into settings in FortiVPN and allowing full disk access for the processes it requests and then uninstalling with the offical uninstaller and then deleting /Library/Application Support/Fortinet and then rebooting and installing FortiVPN causes the installer to correctly prompt for the new security extensions and VPN profile.

Hell of bug, have fun!

Liam

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