Apple Making It Harder to Avoid Nagging macOS Update Notifications

[ThunderSkunk]

Catalina has been a trainwreck. I‘ll happily upgrade my main work mbp16 to an early beta of the next OS, bc it can’t possibly get worse than this.

I had no idea MS finally addressed their psychotic updater. ...bc all out Win10 installs are virtualized, on an intranet only, totally isolated from internet access. Windows doesn’t get to talk to the outside world... until it puts the lotion on!

 

[maverick28]

I'd be glad if someone told me how to disable nagging in-app updates: every time I launch one of the latest compatible iWork apps in High Sierra, I get a pop-up telling me to update to Mojave in order to install the newest app (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) which I'm not planning to do ever. It's possible with some 3rd party apps by changing corresponding keys in the app's bundle's Info.plist with defaults but I don't find such keys in any of Apple's app's Info.plist file.

 

[katbel]

I'd be glad if someone told me how to disable nagging in-app updates: every time I launch one of the latest compatible iWork apps in High Sierra, I get a pop-up telling me to update to Mojave in order to install the newest app (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) which I'm not planning to do ever. It's possible with some 3rd party apps by changing corresponding keys in the app's bundle's Info.plist with defaults but I don't find such keys in any of Apple's app's Info.plist file.

Some ideas to stop the nagging are here:

Which Terminal command to permanently hide updates in Apps store?

That same profile works for pretty much any recent version of macOS. Configuration profiles in general have been supported in macOS since around 10.7, if I am remembering correctly.

forums.macrumors.com

 

[MacOSExustio]

Probably said somewhere in the previous 328 comments - on the fact that Apple is acting more like Microsoft here - it's ironic that the *reason* I don't want to update to Catalina is *because* of Microsoft. My mother uses still-32-bit Office 2011 (14.7.7) and is one of those people who doesn't like the ever-changing-mess that UX design these days has become. I assume because Gen-Y/Z/millennial/whatever/alpha(?) *likes* stuff like this.. Like the behavioral equivalent of Jony Ive's "fiddle factor"

I guess I'll have to get either the 2016 or 2019 version.. Does MS sell a perpetual-license multiple-computer version anymore?

 

[Sedulous]

Probably said somewhere in the previous 328 comments - on the fact that Apple is acting more like Microsoft here - it's ironic that the *reason* I don't want to update to Catalina is *because* of Microsoft. My mother uses still-32-bit Office 2011 (14.7.7) and is one of those people who doesn't like the ever-changing-mess that UX design these days has become. I assume because Gen-Y/Z/millennial/whatever/alpha(?) *likes* stuff like this.. Like the behavioral equivalent of Jony Ive's "fiddle factor"

I guess I'll have to get either the 2016 or 2019 version.. Does MS sell a perpetual-license multiple-computer version anymore?

No, unfortunately the only persistent license is for Microsoft Office Home & Student for single user. $150.

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[velocityg4]

Probably said somewhere in the previous 328 comments - on the fact that Apple is acting more like Microsoft here - it's ironic that the *reason* I don't want to update to Catalina is *because* of Microsoft. My mother uses still-32-bit Office 2011 (14.7.7) and is one of those people who doesn't like the ever-changing-mess that UX design these days has become. I assume because Gen-Y/Z/millennial/whatever/alpha(?) *likes* stuff like this.. Like the behavioral equivalent of Jony Ive's "fiddle factor"

I guess I'll have to get either the 2016 or 2019 version.. Does MS sell a perpetual-license multiple-computer version anymore?

Unless you absolutely need MS Office for specific functions not supported by LibreOffice or iWork. Just use iWork or LibreOffice instead. I prefer LibreOffice since you can save by default in DOCX, PPTX and XLSX. Last I tried iWork that wasn't possible.

 

[Sedulous]

Unless you absolutely need MS Office for specific functions not supported by LibreOffice or iWork. Just use iWork or LibreOffice instead. I prefer LibreOffice since you can save by default in DOCX, PPTX and XLSX. Last I tried iWork that wasn't possible.

Pages will save to .docx but chances are high that any complex page layout elements will be butchered.

 

[motulist]

Unless you absolutely need MS Office for specific functions not supported by LibreOffice or iWork. Just use iWork or LibreOffice instead. I prefer LibreOffice since you can save by default in DOCX, PPTX and XLSX. Last I tried iWork that wasn't possible.

The vast, VAAAAAST majority of people never need anything beyond TextEdit.

 

[velocityg4]

Pages will save to .docx but chances are high that any complex page layout elements will be butchered.

From what I can find. You still have to specifically export as docx. Not just make it the default format used by Pages.

 

[JagRunner]

Like everyone said the Apple/Epic threads...it's apples platform. They can do what they want. You could always leave to another platform lol