I have a macbook air runnning Catalina. System Preferences notifies me there is an upgrade to Big Sur available, but I do not want to install it. How can I tell Apple to stop notifying me about this upgrade but still give me Catalina updates?
MacBook Air 11″, macOS 10.15
I disagree because this behaviour is inconsistent with the behaviour of most notifications in most apps. Usually the 'flag' that indicates that there is a new notification is cleared when the notification has been read. Leaving it on in this case defeats the purpose of the flag and is annoying because I now cannot tell whether there is a new notification or not other by opening the app and reading it. It is a design fault.
I disagree because this behaviour is inconsistent with the behaviour of most notifications in most apps. Usually the 'flag' that indicates that there is a new notification is cleared when the notification has been read. Leaving it on in this case defeats the purpose of the flag and is annoying because I now cannot tell whether there is a new notification or not other by opening the app and reading it. It is a design fault.
Uncheck the options is the two pictures below.
It may still Notify of an upgrade but will not download or attempt to install the upgrade.
You will need to verify when any additional Catalina Updates are available.
That should end in the next couple of months if Apple holds to their schedule of offering Security Update for approx. 3 years from date of Release.
AndyEdinburgh, I fully understand your point. In my case I have many Macs, and this wrong and sticky notification of an upgrade,
which hides real useful updates is a real pain:
I can easily make the backups about an update, the CCC of the running version, then the update, the tests, and finally the final switch.
I cannot do this about an upgrade. Usually an upgrade is more or less 3 full days of tests. Most of the time,
with the version 0, then the version 1… They are not at all on the same scale of risk in real work.
Here's how my McBook Pro with Big Sur is set up (on the iMac with Catalina, the settings are identical).
Now, if you're asking about deleting the little red "1" from the Software Updates icon, that can't be done.
My understanding is that you can't. I have a 2017 iMac running Catalina, and a M1 MacBook Pro running Big Sur. What I did is just unchecked the "Automatically keep my Mac up to date" box in System Preferences. My iMac still gets all the Catalina Security Updates, and my MacBook Pro still gets all the Big Sur Security Updates.
User wrote " I have a macbook air runnning Catalina. System Preferences notifies me there is an upgrade to Big Sur available, but I do not want to install it. How can I tell Apple to stop notifying me about this upgrade but still give me Catalina updates? "
That was answered earlier.
The " Notification from Apple " will not stop nor can it be Turned Off - that feature is Built into the Operating System and is not an " Error " but a design by Apple.
In my bug report I said that the 'new notification' flag should be removed when the message has been READ. That is the standard behaviour of notifications in most apps these days. It should not depend on whether any further action is taken, such as downloading an update or an upgrade.
I agree that an upgrade should be treated differently from an update. One should be able to opt out of an upgrade without any further consequences. There might be a case for reminding users if they get far behind on updates. Personally I always keep my system UPDATED to the latest version of the OS it is running. However I have two other older computers running Catalina that are not able to upgrade to Bug Sur, and I prefer to keep them all the same, so I do not want Big Sur on my MacBook air. Why should I? I have tried it and did not particularly like it anyway.
While I agree with many of the points you have made, I don't believe much will change. Apple use to be the "It Just Works" company. Lately, not so much. I keep my iMac, currently on Catalina, at least two full OS upgrades behind. The iMac is the machine I depend on for my day-to-day livelihood, and I can't be beta testing Apple's latest OS releases while I'm trying to make a living. I see very little, if anything, in Big Sur or Monterey that would make me want to upgrade.
Thanks. I made bug report.
Your undestanding seems to be correct.
That does not work. The notification is still there.
It may still Notify of an upgrade but will not download or attempt to install the upgrade.
That is the exact opposite of what I want.
Seems to be an Apple software error then. Annoying.
Notifications : Suppress upgrade but keep updates
