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Apple is getting pushy
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man, if you can't complain then what, some of these people would complain about free beer if it wasn't cold enough
System Settings is not listed in Notifications.
The notification is generated by the extension /System/Library/ExtensionKit/Extensions/FollowUpSettingsExtension.appex
There are other notifications from System Settings that you might want (Apple Account & iCloud).
Please enlighten us.
Try updating. Maybe that will help make the badge go away. Just a thought.
Not sure what your reply has to do with my response to a separate concern, but okay.
Ah, good to know. (I mean, bad to know, but thanks for passing it along.)I don't think that's totally true. Although they're mostly up to date they may not get some patches in the same timely fashion, or not at all.
Apple clarifies security update policy: Only the latest OSes are fully patched
New document confirms what security researchers have observed for a few years.arstechnica.com
I'm still running Sequoia all the same.
I might do that with the .3 update. It depends on the feedback I see on this site.
Is it keeping the user safe when they nag me about setting up Apple wallet in the same exact way?
They have auto installation of security updates for that. This is something else entirely.
So does 18.7.3.
I hardly disagree.
As mentioned in another thread, even when you think you’re updating Sequoia in Settings, unless you actively uncheck Tahoe and check Sequoia, it will just „upgrade“, even if you clicked on install next to Sequoia.
While the badge on the icon is pushy, automatically opting for an update the user did actively not select is impudent.
Some people need to stay a version behind, and if it’s just for the piece of mind that none of their apps or add-ons break.
They give the user an option and try to decide about it behind their back, too.
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I really do understand where you are coming from but I also understand the company point of view. Their objective will be to migrate everyone to the latest and greatest. And fast. So, my only recommendation is to pay attention to what is checked, where is checked and what buttons you press on notifications.
It’s the latest, but it’s definitely not the greatest. Otherwise people wouldn’t complain about it so much.
I personally just dislike they way they go about it. People have legitimate reasons not to upgrade. For example my mother needs a visual interface where she can open apps from, with folders and user defined sorting. But Launchpad is gone and all the „alternatives“ are too much for her to learn, when it was so simple for over 20 years…
If it wasn’t for that and the reduced battery life I wouldn’t care.
And if Apple really needs to stoop this low to make people upgrade, maybe they should fix the things people are trying to avoid, instead of installing something you, the user and owner of your machine, didn’t intend to install.
It’s simple, really.
Surely! It has a preference setting to auto-allow Apple's binaries that is on by default. Turn that off and block the processes mentioned in this thread once they start popping up.
What’s the point of a notification (which you can turn off anyway) if it doesn’t notify you? Nit-picking
Totally agree. Latest OS updates keep our data safe, if people want to risk their data, that’s up to them.
what did you see about the .2 update that made you want to skip it?
Counterpoint: probably less time to apply that fix than to keep posting about it
I'm with you that it should be dismissable, but it isn't and there's a perfectly good workaround out there.
lol. I had to go look in mac where settings I con was on my dock. I don’t pay attention as there so many icons on my dock. Folks love to nitpick and complain.Counterpoint: probably less time to apply that fix than to keep posting about it
I'm with you that it should be dismissable, but it isn't and there's a perfectly good workaround out there.
My own experience would be that MacOS is still far less pushy when it comes to updates than what Windows 10/11 are, where there is no official way to disable them. At least MacOS still requires user permission to download and install updates that alter the system, at a guess primarily due to its Unix architecture. Installing updates on MacOS is still very similar to what it was on Windows Vista and 7.
I'm holding off upgrading to Tahoe for now (though I'm considering getting an M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pro after they come out, and they will come with it) due to concerns I have about its interface inconsistencies, so am still on Sequoia, but I have noticed that some of the time my systems icon in the dock displays a red 1 beside it (indicating an update is available) while other times it doesn't bother.
I'm holding off upgrading to Tahoe for now (though I'm considering getting an M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pro after they come out, and they will come with it) due to concerns I have about its interface inconsistencies, so am still on Sequoia, but I have noticed that some of the time my systems icon in the dock displays a red 1 beside it (indicating an update is available) while other times it doesn't bother.
If you think that's annoying, imagine Google Chrome which keeps asking me to update from macOS 10.13.6 to be able to install a new version of Chrome every single time I open their browser.
Both my 2010 Mac mini and my 2011 Macbook Air can't be upgraded past 10.13.6
Both my 2010 Mac mini and my 2011 Macbook Air can't be upgraded past 10.13.6
I ditched Chrome in September 2025 after they forcibly stopped supporting uBlock Origin and all practical workarounds to keep it working, and now use Brave, which is built on Chromium and performs almost exactly like Chrome (it even identifies itself as Chrome for user agent purposes) but retains support for the plugin (it also has better privacy features). Brave tells you about updates more or less the same way as Chrome but in my experience they tend to happen every 2-3 weeks rather than every week. I also considered switching to Firefox before I tried Brave, but have decided against doing so for now (I'll switch if Brave has to eventually end support for uBlock Origin) due to Firefox's noticeably slower performance.