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Since upgrading to macOS 13.x, I've received a sequence of Background Items Added notifications with every restart. Permission for all these is enabled under General > Login items: Allow in the Background:
Nonetheless, every time I restart, I get another round of notifications. Obviously this is nothing like fatal, but nonetheless, I'd like to suppress the superfluous warnings about things that aren't problems.
Mac mini, macOS 13.1
I think I solved this – for myself, at very least.
Full disclosure: I am not an Apple developer. However, I am a software engineer with > 20 years experience working on UNIX and UNIX-Like systems (mainly Linux variants), similar to MacOS.
OK! All that being said, here's what I did:
Before I did this, I was getting dozens and dozens of "Background Items Added" warnings. (Ventura 13.1 on a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro.) My logic for this was as follows:
Furthermore: Startup tasks may be run at system boot, at login of ANY user, and at login of a particular user account. As I understand it:
TL;DR: JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
Ok, I feel you. Here is the step-by-step. Like I said, this worked for ME. YMMV. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reboot in Safe Mode
Apple Menu -> Restart. Hold down the SHIFT key (Intel Macs) until you see the login screen.
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
Remove unwanted startup items, reset BTM database, restart
I know this looks like a lot. If anything goes sideways, /tmp/DISABLED contains the files you removed. Just move them back and restart.
Good luck!
It worked for me! I looked in these three locations, sorted by name and removed GotoMeeting from the first, and one each different Oracle Java from the other two. NO MORE ANNOYING POPUPS THANK YOU! (I ignored the advice of the person who said "don't do that, it won't work and could be bad or even terrible).
~/Library/LaunchAgents
Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchAgents and Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons
This is working so far for me! I had Corel Corporation constantly trying to load a help file for Painter. I found it in both the launchagents and launchdaemons. I deleted and restarted and no more load attempts for me running Ventura 13.2.1 on an a 2017 Macbook...Thanks!
This worked, thank you!
For any others: don't delete the items from LaunchAgents/Daemons before running the above command. That just brings them back again as others have warned.
In other words: reboot, run the command, reboot again.
firanto wrote:
Is there any way to prevent that particular notification to show without removing the apps from launch and background configurations?
Sometimes, uninstalling and reinstalling the app will make it work correctly. Some apps seem to find that they have been broken when you disable them, and they reinstall the background item, triggering the notification again.
This happens in Sonoma too. Here is a detailed description of a problem and potential solutions, if that helps anyone.
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Every time I unlock my laptop from sleep I get a bunch of "Background Items Added" & "Login Item Added" Notifications. I have to swipe away each one individually. And they keep popping up every single time my computer goes to sleep.
The only solution is to remove the apps from Login Items and disallow Background Items. This "solution" doesn't work for me, because I actually like this apps. I trust them, and I want them to run a login and run background tasks.
What I don't want is to get a notification about that every single time. Here are possible solutions:
1. For each app that System sends notification about ask if I "trust it". If I do, don't send notification.
2. In Notification Settings allow to block notification from the System.
3. At the very least you could make a "read all notification" button so that I don't have to remove them one by one.
The only solution is to remove the apps from Login Items and disallow Background Items.
Most things that install background items do not use the Login Items method to run at login. Removing the apps from Login Items will likely not resolve the problem apps.
The Login Items and Items that run in the background aren’t not necessarily related.
Disallowing background items only makes it worse as the app is designed to “heal” itself and reinstalls the background item that was disabled.
This "solution" doesn't work for me, because I actually like this apps. I trust them, and I want them to run a login and run background tasks.
The app isn’t designed for Ventura or Sonoma. The developer needs to update the app to work correctly. For some, uninstalling the app and reinstalling removes the repeated notifications.
muibui wrote:
I spoke with one of the Apple Support team members, and here's what I was suggested.
1. Reset using "sfltool resetbtm" from Terminal
2. Reboot
This is the correct answer. Worked for me right away; didn't even have to restart. Thanks!
Was hoping that this would be resolved in Ventura 13.1, but no such luck.
Still getting these alerts constantly.
I contacted apple support, they opened a case and escalated the issue.
Tomorrow I expect to receive a call.
Hope they come with some solution or workaround. Since is really crazy.
Just found this on r...it
This also worked for me. In particular, this solved the problem with syncthing.
@muibui Thank you very much for sharing.
After installing 13.2 yesterday I am then sprayed with this crap all over the right hand side of display....Can anyone work like this? This is waaay beyond an annoyance. Needs fixed immediately!!!
"I would turn off as many as these as you can bear to live without"
If I didn't need them, I wouldn't be running them.
This situation is driving me crayz 😔 I hope they find a solution soon.
Having the same very annoying problem...FIx it Apple
Perpetual "Background Items Added"
