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System preferences notification red badge annoying

I've update my MacBook Pro to macOS Catalina 10.15.4.

System Preferences -> Software Update says that my Mac is up to date and no updates found, but red badge with number "1" is on System Preferences icon on a Dock.

This is annoying! How to get rid of it!

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 30, 2020 4:21 AM

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Posted on Mar 30, 2020 4:52 AM

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



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System preferences notification red badge annoying

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