How to get rid of that nasty reminder to connect to iCloud?

[rin67630]

I just don't want to use iCloud.
Every time I open Sonoma I get this nasty reminder to connect.
I cannot refuse, just select "later".
Then I immedately get the same nag again. Three times !
And at the next connection I get that same series of nags again, like if it came from an uneducated rude child.
Has someone got a trick to get Apple to stopping nagging me?

 

[russell_314]

I just don't want to use iCloud.
Every time I open Sonoma I get this nasty reminder to connect.
I cannot refuse, just select "later".
Then I immedately get the same nag again. Three times !
And at the next connection I get that same series of nags again, like if it came from an uneducated rude child.
Has someone got a trick to get Apple to stopping nagging me?

The modern macOS is set up to be connected to the cloud. Sometimes it can be a pain to use something as it’s not intended by the designer.


Is there still an option for a local non Apple account for initial setup on modern Macs? I don’t know but I bet there is some way to do it.

I suspect that might be the trick because at that point your only on a local user account instead of an Apple account with iCloud functionality that it wants to access.

Of course you’re going to lose some features, but I suspect if you don’t even want basic iCloud then those features probably aren’t something you want either.

That’s my only guess when it comes to a solution.

 

[bogdanw]

Has someone got a trick to get Apple to stopping nagging me?

If you have SIP disabled, you can disable the agent responsible for nagging from Terminal:

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.followupd

launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.followupd

If you don’t have SIP disabled, sign out of the Apple ID and sign back in through the App Store.

 

[rin67630]

If you have SIP disabled, you can disable the agent responsible for nagging from Terminal:

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.followupd

launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.followupd

If you don’t have SIP disabled, sign out of the Apple ID and sign back in through the App Store.

Thank you, I appreciate your expertise and help.
Does that mean it works for user 501 only?
Regarding the option with SIP, I'm afraid I did not understand what it means.
Should I sign out, then enter the terminal commands, and sign in back?

 

[bogdanw]

About “Disabling and Enabling System Integrity Protection”
https://developer.apple.com/documen...ling-and-enabling-system-integrity-protection

If you are not the first admin, user 501, you can use

launchctl bootout gui/$UID/com.apple.followupd

launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.followupd

Log out from iCloud is not necessary, but a reboot is recommended.

 

[Fishrrman]

SIP = system integrity protection.
It keeps users from fooling "too deeply" with the OS.

But you sound like you want to "do some fooling".
But you could easily get in over your head.

If you want to DISABLE SIP, do this:
1. Shut down, all the way off
2. Boot to the recovery partition or startup options (apple silicon), or internet recovery (intel Mac)
3. When you get to the system utilities, open terminal
4. Enter (without quotations) "csrutil disable"
(you need to write this command down on paper if you intend to use it)
5. Your administrative password will be required (but you won't see it as you type it).
6. When done, REBOOT.

Now open terminal and type
csrutil status
What does it say?

 

[rin67630]

SIP = system integrity protection.
It keeps users from fooling "too deeply" with the OS.

But you sound like you want to "do some fooling".
But you could easily get in over your head.

If you want to DISABLE SIP, do this:
1. Shut down, all the way off
2. Boot to the recovery partition or startup options (apple silicon), or internet recovery (intel Mac)
3. When you get to the system utilities, open terminal
4. Enter (without quotations) "csrutil disable"
(you need to write this command down on paper if you intend to use it)
5. Your administrative password will be required (but you won't see it as you type it).
6. When done, REBOOT.

Now open terminal and type
csrutil status
What does it say?

Thank you SIP disabled, commands entered, sip re-enabled.
Looks like the nag is gone...
The guy, who tames Apple...