Perpetual "Background Items Added"

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

Posted on Nov 2, 2022 3:30 PM

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Feb 3, 2023 8:07 AM in response to grouchy2

Take no offense please. I do really that contributors are offering their best effort and it is appreciated, believe me! And you are exactly right. The fact that this is happening and is so frustrating to resolve really suggests that Apple should have prepared some official guidance to help resolve it. The good news is this group has solved it. Best regards.

Feb 3, 2023 10:27 PM in response to djpais

Same. Took about 5 minutes following @etresoft's guidance. Unfortunately, several big companies (Microsoft, Google, and Steam) cannot update their software to respect the Login Items. Instead, I'll have to deal with quitting their apps each day or deleting them rather than removing them from the area of System Preferences that Apple provides. Either that or upgrade my 8 GB M1/M2 MBAs, as I'm running into high TBW from too much multitasking/app usage.

Feb 6, 2023 7:24 AM in response to r bryan

I have been able to delete them.


I would prefer to only disable this annoying message. One time is enough, then simply mute it (them).


I want to disable some tasks from running since I keep this software on my disk, just don't need it running all the time. Disabling the notifications is the minimal change I need, rather than deleting the software.

Feb 11, 2023 4:27 PM in response to hardchemist

Trying to figure out what Dawei Guo belongs to. Weird stuff. If it said "apple pie" instead of Dawei Guo it wouldn't be as bad.

That wouldn't get you anywhere, either. There is an Apple Pie project that you will find, but it isn't creating software that runs a background process.

Searching for "developer named Dawei Duo" provides several hints as to what you installed.

Feb 11, 2023 4:32 PM in response to Barney-15E

It's not Dawei Duo, it's Dawei Guo (looks like autocorrect lol) And yes that's the first thing that I checked in the community and no I don't have the associated programs running, although I may have in the past. Perhaps an old preferences file that was never deleted? Also searched all the processes and did a disk-wide text search for that name.


Either way it's odd that all this started to happen with 13.2......

Perpetual "Background Items Added"

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