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I'm having issues in Catalina 10.15 where random apps come open at startup. These aren't necessarily ones I was using when I shut it down last. Also, in Safari, the sidebar will randomly pop open.
Is this common and how do I fix it? Thank you.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
To disable apps from opening automatically on startup, you can do the following:
To disable apps from opening automatically on startup, you can do the following:
Check the app Preferences. They might have their own configuration of autostart that you can disable.
You can right-click the app icon in the Dock or click the app name in the Menu bar > Preferences.
You can also check two folders
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
BTW, can you tell us what are the apps you're talking abou? That'll help to investigate if there's something specific to them.
LOL that's crazy huh 😆
Well, let's try this:
Shut your Mac and turn it on while holding Shift key. This will start your Mac in Safe Mode. It might take several minutes because macOS gives himself some heath care and can solve some problems. You can then restart your Mac normally and see if it stops acting weird.
You can also create a new admin user and play with a while to see if it behaves as you expect. If it does, then transfer your data over there. Once everything is set, delete the old user and that's it.
Final solution is to backup your data to an external drive and do a clean install.
Do not recover from a Time Machine. Just install macOS and copy back your data the old way so it won't copy back old settings that might be messing up with your Mac.
There are 2 ways
Go to Sys Prefs > Users & Groups > Login items and remove the ones you see there.
Some apps have this configuration on their own Preferences. You should look into that and uncheck the box that enables the autostart.
Thank you. /Library/StartupItems was empty. /System/Library/StartupItems didn't pull up anything in Finder, unfortunately.
The apps I remember opening were News and Photos and also Mail. But there have been others.
Check System Preferences > Users & Groups > [Your Name] > Login Items.
Thank you. I tried that, but there aren’t any items listed under login items. What else could it be I wonder?
Wow those native apps shouldn't be doing this unless you had them opened when shutting down the Mac.
I'll have to look more into it.
When I started up this morning, it opened to the Podcast app, which I haven't used in several days. This is so weird. I feel like there's a ghost in the machine.
Why do random apps open at MacBook Air startup?
