Can I get rid of the upgrade number on the System Preference icon?

[desertman]

I have on both of my Macs with macOS 10.14 a red "1" on the System Preferences icon in the dock that is reminding me all day long about the macOS 10.15 upgrade.

I do not want to upgrade, at least not in the foreseeable future. Is there any way to get rid of this number on the System Preferences icon?

Thanks.

 

[Super Spartan]

You can get rid of it with this command in Terminal but after you reboot it will come back again.

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0

Then copy/paste this to kill the Dock and restart it:

alias clearbadge="defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && killall Dock"

 

[desertman]

Thanks. This works when I use just "defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && killall Dock" (without the quotation marks) for the second terminal command. I actually think that this command alone might do the trick as it is the first command plus "kill dock" in one single command.

How it will be after a restart is still to be seen.

 

[ljmac]

Thanks. This works when I use just "defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && killall Dock" (without the quotation marks) for the second terminal command. I actually think that this command alone might do the trick as it is the first command plus "kill dock" in one single command.

How it will be after a restart is still to be seen.

Works like a charm even after rebooting the computer. Can't update right now and this was very helpful to get rid of the nagging every day.
Thank you.