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Apple Making It Harder to Avoid Nagging macOS Update Notifications
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Well if you're willing to take the security risk then it might be a good choice. I would try a clean install of macOS but only after you back up the existing OS in case it doesn't work.
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They will likely read the reasonable comments but I suspect some of these people who really dislike Catalina will type an email by banging their heads against the keyboard. At least it'll entertain the guy in charge of reading them LOL
Point updates: Fine. I honestly don't want to miss security updates.
But Catalina is broken. I have a large audiobook collection, and you can't put your Books library on an external drive like you could with iTunes. Until they fix that (which seems to be a low priority for them), I'll remain on 10.14.
But Catalina is broken. I have a large audiobook collection, and you can't put your Books library on an external drive like you could with iTunes. Until they fix that (which seems to be a low priority for them), I'll remain on 10.14.
And just two stories earlier, “An Apple File System bug has been discovered in macOS 10.15.5 Catalina”
I'm on Mojave also, but I disabled the "automatically keep my mac up to date". Wouldnt the update have no effect since I disabled notifications regarding catalinaWell, I better ignore the 2020-03 update then
Incredible: a lot of tips for stopping Windows updates...none for stopping Apple on Mac
but Apple has stopped us (very sarcastic)
🤣 LOL
but Apple has stopped us (very sarcastic)
🤣 LOL
hmmm... we are not sure that apple has the right to offend us with their updates. and i think we have the right to reject the apple software agreement license. apple cannot dictate the terms of the agreement as a seller. we should be able to reject it according to our own timing as we are the ones who paid the purchase price. therefore, apple really begs for another big law suit, a class action suit, to force them to only fix the bugs that become apparent within their software, but not be allowed to modify the software by introducing new functionality as OS updates or battery management software that turns the iPhone into a turtle, or changing the OS to include contact tracing. this is not something that apple should do or ever worry about it. they need to produce good, functional software, not political software suggestions.
This is actually a very bad idea on Apples part, especially for those of us running production environments where our systems have to remain uniform with each other. Unfortunately we still have a lot of issues preventing the move to Catalina and frankly in our business its best practice to always stay one full version behind anyway until it gets its last point update. We may have to remain on High Sierra and Mojave for the next two years at least until I've got all our hardware and software tested and compliant.
I have the command softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina" deployed across our estate for this reason.
Might be ok for lazier home users who dont think its important, but not for business.
I have the command softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina" deployed across our estate for this reason.
Might be ok for lazier home users who dont think its important, but not for business.
To anyone out there capable of finding where they broke our terminal command
here is the link https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2042?locale=en_US
to download the security update and trying to figure it out where we could go back and fix it
For everyone else here is the link to send a feedback to Apple
here is the link https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2042?locale=en_US
to download the security update and trying to figure it out where we could go back and fix it
For everyone else here is the link to send a feedback to Apple
Feedback - macOS
Apple wants to hear from you. Send us your comments and feedback about macOS.
www.apple.com
Right? I mean, if the box is unchecked, the update doesn’t happen. I haven’t read all the updates in this thread, though, so I’m willing to believe that apple ignores that checkbox?
I know a lot of Mac users who need to stay on Mojave because of the hardware/software they are using. Often very expensive hardware. I bet some will be tricked now into installing Catalina. Going back to Mojave is not an easy task for less savy Mac users. I think this is a very bad move which will lead to a lot of cursing.
In my opinion it's time for a boring LTS (long term support) branch of macOS that breaks less stuff. I really don't care so much for all the fancy features Apple has been working on the last couple of years (Handoff, Continuity, Siri). What I need is rock solid OS with a decent Mail client and Photos management sofware. It would also be nice if the built in apps would not randlomly delete my file between updates.
In my opinion it's time for a boring LTS (long term support) branch of macOS that breaks less stuff. I really don't care so much for all the fancy features Apple has been working on the last couple of years (Handoff, Continuity, Siri). What I need is rock solid OS with a decent Mail client and Photos management sofware. It would also be nice if the built in apps would not randlomly delete my file between updates.
No the whole thread is about how you can't hide updates. I think some are just worried that Apple will head in the direction Microsoft took.
Hell no I won't upgrade. Not when they eliminated x32 support in Catalina. I'm not about to give up my Quicktime 7 if I can help it!
So having run the most recent security update, now I'm back to getting nagged to take a mid-2012 MBP to Catalina again... after I had not that long ago finally bothered to step through what it took to get the upgrade to stop being offered so I wouldn't accidentally run it. Ugh.
I'm not going to Catalina because I have 32 bit software I mean to use on the MBP for as long as Mojave gets security updates. And I happen to like iTunes or what's left of it in Mojave.
Why can't Apple let it alone already... I have another laptop shipping this week that will have Catalina on it. There's no way I'm taking the other one off Mojave. The only thing this move of theirs did was make me decide I need to keep up to speed every day with any news of their software update tweaks so that I don't boot a machine and connect it to the net one day and have Apple say congratulations we finished your background OS upgrade we decided it was time for you to have, so rebooting again in 3.2.1...
I'm not going to Catalina because I have 32 bit software I mean to use on the MBP for as long as Mojave gets security updates. And I happen to like iTunes or what's left of it in Mojave.
Why can't Apple let it alone already... I have another laptop shipping this week that will have Catalina on it. There's no way I'm taking the other one off Mojave. The only thing this move of theirs did was make me decide I need to keep up to speed every day with any news of their software update tweaks so that I don't boot a machine and connect it to the net one day and have Apple say congratulations we finished your background OS upgrade we decided it was time for you to have, so rebooting again in 3.2.1...
Wait... so this is just referring to the reminder and the app badges? I thought they were forcing updates to become mandatory.
We’re at the point now where “most” updates don’t break stuff. I never had an issue with Windows 10 or macOS. And if that ever happens, that’s what backups are for.
Windows 10 updates also happen much quicker than in the past with Windows 7.
It’s time we get on the monthly update bandwagon. Not because we have to accept it but because security and fixing issues is becoming increasingly more important.
"Not Yet"... but they removed the way to have it not pop up as available. Too easy to launch it unintentionally.
Nagging? How could they complain when they force all these ad type articles
With the release of macOS Catalina 10.15.5 and related security updates for macOS Mojave and High Sierra earlier this week, Apple is making it more difficult for users to ignore available software updates and remain on their current operating system versions.
Included in the release notes for macOS Catalina 10.15.5 is the following:For users still running an earlier major macOS version like Mojave or High Sierra, the Software Update pane in System Preferences typically displays a prominent upgrade button for Catalina and a notification badge on the System Preferences icon in the Dock, but until now knowledgeable users have been able to hide those items by using the softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina" command in the Terminal app.
After updating to macOS 10.15.5 or Security Update 2020-003, this command no longer works, with Terminal displaying the following message:As documented in a discussion thread in our forums, there are some additional commands that can be used to temporarily remove the notifications, but it's clear Apple wants as many users as possible to upgrade their Macs with all of the most recent operating system updates.
Article Link: Apple Making It Harder to Avoid Nagging macOS Update Notifications
Doobydoooby, I know how it is. I'm on a mid-2012 mpb here. I could update, but not gonna do it. I actually have two drives in this thing, one with a more updated version of the OS that I can switch to when appropriate, but am grimly hanging on to some older software for all I'm worth. Software that isn't supported in newer versions of the OS. So I spend most of my time in the past 😂😎
But doesn’t launching It require a confirmation and password? That’s pretty intentional.