My Mac mini has MacOS 10.14.6 (Mojave). I have. decided not for the present to update to Catalina. Is there any way I can stop getting daily reminders about this system update? Every day I am faced with a choice about when I want a repeat of the reminder; the best I seem to be able to do is to click 'Tomorrow'. Is there is no way of choosing 'Never'?
Mac mini, macOS 10.14
Hello, Michael.
One way to stoop the nagging is to download the Catalina upgrade installer. The upgrade application will download to your Applications folder. Once downloaded, it will likely launch to begin the installation. At that point just quit the installer (⌘Q) and leave it alone in the Applications folder.
Software Updates will recognize that you have already downloaded the upgrade and will stop pestering you with the notification.
Thanks v. much, D.I. Johnson. Actually I accidentally did try starting the upgrade and stopped it just in time, but admittedly I did not. get as far as actually downloading the installer. I'll try agaain.
Thanks very much, leroydouglas. I shall keep your instructions for use later, for it all sounds very complicated and for the moment I think I shall have to put up with the daily nuisance of the upgrade messages.
Suit yourself. Understandable, it is two command lines entered into the Terminal.
Found in your ~/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
Michael Graubart wrote:
Thanks v. much, D.I. Johnson. Actually I accidentally did try starting the upgrade and stopped it just in time, but admittedly I did not. get as far as actually downloading the installer. I'll try agaain.
If the installer launch after download you can quit it like any other app—however , this has proven to be ineffective aginst the daily update notices, unless that installer is actually run.
(The installer will sit harmless in your Applications folder "Install macOS Catalina.app")
A temporary fix between shutdowns/log outs is from the terminal.app copy and paste:
sudo softwareupdate --reset-ignored
(please note your psswd will not echo on screen—type it in anyway to proceed)
relaunch System Preferences>Software update
Then to suppress the red badge icon on the Dock, is one more Terminal command, copy and paste:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && killall Dock
Mac system update - stop daily notification?