Way to block update notification for Tahoe permanently?

[flyproductions]

Yes i really want to stay with Monterey! Even if Apple does not want me to.

So is there still a way to get permanently rid of this annoying update notifications and badges on the settings-icon?

All the old methods / terminal commands seem not to work anymore.

Even blocking softwareupdated with Little Snitch does not:
"This rule is ineffective because the process it refers to has been deleted or moved."

Any help or suggestion is highly appreciated. Any discussion concerning the value of updating in general is not!

Thanks in advance!

 

[bogdanw]

"Defer Tahoe for 90 days"
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/defer-tahoe-for-90-days.2465304/

People have claimed that refusing the Software License Agreement gets rid of the badge https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/remove-system-settings-update-badge.2404855/post-33021866
It never worked when I tried.

If you have SIP disabled, you can disable the SoftwareUpdate notification process from running https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-keep-getting-this-message.2433445/post-33348055

 

[PotentPeas]

These terminal commands should prevent the notification from appearing. No need to mess with SIP.

defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate UserNotificationDate -date "2035-01-01 00:00:00 +0000"
defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date "2035-01-01 00:00:00 +0000"

This basically is where macOS stores the date of the last update notification that it gave you. It waits a period of time before popping another one. If you put that date way out into the future, you'll be waiting a long time before seeing another notification.

(This doesn't address the Settings icon badge. I just don't keep Settings on my dock, so I rarely see it. You can access Settings easily from the Apple menu in the top left.)

This thread has more information on ways to block the update and update notifications.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/no-longer-possible-ignore-sequoia-for-90-days.2436999/page-3?post=33626862#post-33626862

 

[bogdanw]

I forgot about the profile to remove the System Settings red badge https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ore-sequoia-for-90-days.2436999/post-33628256

 

[MBAir2010]

this morning I had to use my M1 MBA and ran into some many snafus with tahoe
and was really thinking about switching back to Monterey as I did with Ventura-Seq, now tahoe?
seems to me this fence is so large and wide that spans or bridges Tahoe and Monterey
exactly t 5h 49min for 287 miles as I feel that is the time and effort to revert back to Monterey
as some aspects of Monterey is not worth the efforts as Tahoe is okay but tedious on settings.
perhaps for me and other we are just simply tired of the annual name changing OS with menial boring upgrades.

after I improve my MBA 2010 today I might just shelf these M1s as I did last summer.
they are very inconsistent!

 

[flyproductions]

Thanks for yxour help!

People have claimed that refusing the Software License Agreement gets rid of the badge

Seems to have worked for me so far. Did this after reading you post and didn't get any update-notification since.
Before it allways returned only a few minutes after executing one of the commands.

For...

launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.SoftwareUpdateNotificationManager

...i get an error:

Could not find domain for user gui: 501

 

[flyproductions]

Seems to have worked for me so far. Did this after reading you post and didn't get any update-notification since.

Would hav been to nice! 🙄

Worked for a while. Now the annoying mess keep reappearing any two days after disagreeing to the licence agreement.

F**ck Apple violently pressing updates which people do not want!

Any new suggestions to the topic?

 

[PotentPeas]

Did you try the commands from my post above? I have yet to get any update notification for Tahoe.

 

[August West]

I have yet to get any update notification for Tahoe.

I have a M2 mini & M1 MBA both running 15.7.2. The mini has not shown the red notification yet but the MBA has had it for weeks¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Since I like to keep the System Settings in the task bar my simple work around was just make an alias of it in the Apps folder and add that to the task bar. Low tech but it works for me.

 

[bogdanw]

Video of the red dot removal with a profile https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-me-to-upgrade-to-tahoe.2471234/post-34292501