Perpetual "Background Items Added"

SimoByst wrote:

I had this problem and a person on Apple Senior support helped me with it!

Write this into spotlight search:

~/Library/LaunchAgents

Then you simply delete the files that cause the notification issue.

You can alternatively install a cleaning program such as CleanMyMacX or Avast cleanup.

There are a number of cleaning programs out there that are straight-up adware/malware. I'm looking at you MacKeeper <Mac Keeper Popup Adware - Apple Community>.

CleanMyMacX is absolutely not one of the problem cleaners. In fact, CleanMyMacX is GREAT. I've used it on 2 of my computers and 8 user computers for at least 5 years. It had never caused any problems and has fixed many problems like the one this thread is about, and their customer support is fantastic.

I'm a little late to this issue, but what solved it for me was to uninstall and reinstall the apps that generated the notifications. I know this can be a pain, but it worked.

For me, it was two apps; one, I was no longer using and the other, was Stream Deck. Stream Deck is owned by Corsair Inc, which was the title of the background item notification. So sometimes, it's not obvious which app is the cause.

I tried deleting the specific App files from here: Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchAgents and Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons as suggested previously here. That did not solve the issue. The Apps would not launch automatically anymore so that was good, I thought. But the messages were still there... I then realized that I needed those Apps to automatically start. So I just ran the specific nagging App installers again. That worked, no more messages, but I won't be trying to shut them off with the Ventura GUI again. If I did not need them to run, I would have gone with the Terminal method.

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 issue of those annoying notifications (at startup) has been resolved in the latest version of Ventura 13.3

I have no idea of the issues involved in the relationship between Apple and its developers, and I don't know why I should really care. I raised this problem (and others had the same problem) because I had transferred my files over from my MacBook Pro to a new MacBook Air (I had to install Ventura on the Air to make the transfer). After I made the transfer of the files, I started receiving notifications that certain apps were running in the background. The notifications appeared and reappeared when I opened System Settings>Login Items or when I restarted my computer. The problem did not exist on the MacBook Pro. Whether or not it was a good idea, the problem has (for the most part) disappeared when I deleted the files from the Launch Agents/Daemon folders in the Library. This action does not seem to have affected any of the apps installed on my computer (yet). I still think that this is a software glitch in Ventura, but if it reappears, I will just have to live with it until Apple fixes it. Also, I know that this is an Apple Community forum, but I would hope that someone at Apple might look at it from time to time.

And, nobody here has figured out why that happens to some people, but not others. It doesn't seem to be the particular background item because some have similar items and one gets repeated requests and others don't.

Since many don't see the repeated requests, it doesn't sound like something inherent in the OS (but still could be fixable in the OS).

I don't know if it has been suggested nor if it will work, but I thought maybe resetting TCC might trigger whatever is needed to remember. But, I also imagine it could make it worse. In Terminal,

tccutil reset all

Everything that must ask permission will ask for permission, again (Camera, Microphone, etc). My hope would be that it will start recording the approvals correctly.

These background app permissions may not be related to TCC at all. Etresoft may know the answer to that.

mightee wrote:

But what if I want to keep using the software it's notifying me about, but just not get the notifications? Won't this affect usability?

You can try uninstalling and reinstalling using the uninstaller provided by the developer. If that doesn’t work, you can ask the developer to update their software to work correctly with the new privacy requirements.

I had the same problem with just one application and tried all the other suggestions that didn't work. I found out the application needed updating to match the system update. Once I did the update, the messages have stopped. Not sure that's the problem with all the messages...but it worked for NCH software.

DaPhid wrote:

Worked for me as well. But to be clear, it was because I wanted the apps forcing this off my machine completely. If I needed them, the issue returns.

You will have to contact those developers and ask them to update their apps. This apparently wasn't fixed in Ventura 13.2, so it may never be fixed, or it might not be fixed until macOS 14.

I appreciate your effort in writing such a long story, but one of the solutions actually worked perfectly for me, I got rid of those notifications.

So, this one works: Look in ~/Library/LaunchAgents (you can copy paste into go to folder from Finder), I deleted the ones that were keep popping and it worked.

We do appreciate that you seem to know the story, but did you actually have the problem and did you actually tried the solutions you are claiming "Nope. Not gonna work." ? Or you are just confusing people?

I'm tired of deleting files in finder since it's not 100% working, the issue keep coming back.

So I develop a small tool to workaround the issue at the moment.

It will locate all `Background items added...` notification and close them automatically(By simulating mouse click).

https://github.com/xiaogdgenuine/BIAN-Killer

I decide to use it till apple fix this annoying bug.

I hope it will be helpful for those who continue to have this problem.
I solved this problem as follows.
1-Open the terminal
2- Enter this command -> "cd Library"
3-Enter this command -> "rm -rf Google" (If you're not going to use Google again.)
4-Then open Finder.
5-Choose Git from the top menu and type "Library/LaunchAgents".
6-Delete anything that has to do with Google in the window that opens.
7-Restart your Mac. If you get the same notification again, click the notification (Most likely, the notification will come from Google Software, not Google Updater.)
8-Click the info icon next to Google in the background items in the settings tab that opens. Then delete all Google related files in the Finder tab that opens.

Congratulations, you made it ;)

I tried all of the suggestions below and none of them worked. So I went to Systems, Notifications and turned off notifications from DropBox. And hey presto, no more annoying messages about background updates. Try it, simple but it actually works!

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.

I created a new user and the problem went away.

Now to find the app (or whatever) that's causing the trouble — any ideas?