Perpetual "Background Items Added"

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.

Why did you delete the launchd plist file for all of those apps? Were all causing notifications?

I was getting at least a dozen notifications. I emptied the mentioned folders completely. I was prepared to restore using time machine if necessary, but I didn't need to do that because it worked, in spite of protestations by people (who haven't tried it, and haven't even seen this issue) that it's impossible to do this without breaking things. An application that will destroy OTHER applications and/or the OS when it can't access one out-of-package resource is either intentional malware in the first place or so poorly designed that it qualifies as malware.

It doesn't cause any notifications.

Not everyone has this issue. It seemed to start for me after I did a safe boot to see if something was interfering with my VPN.

Or, they could actually read the thread and know they just need start their own thread to get specific help with their specific problem instead of blindly ripping through their Mac disemboweling it.

There are over 1,000 people with this same issue. You want 1,000 threads because every situation isn't EXACTLY the same, even though this the same error message and a new development with OS 13?

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Apple Support helped with this today. Please look for upgrades for the software noted in the notification. The message means the software needs to be updated to work with Ventura. Sure enough, updating each software stopped the notifications.

Calling Apple for prepaid support is like calling windows for a PC service. Nos an Apple product anymore. It is like a commodity. Very upset with apple; I called and spent like three hours on the phone, but nobody solved the problem of background items being added. It is very disgusting, and the senior advisors I talked to looked like amateurs. Very sad; it's not apple anymore. I miss Steve Jobs. That was the Apple I used to love.

This is an Apple OS issue. Hopefully, the next update will fix it.

Updating software does not work. Nor does deleting anything.

It's simply a matter of the OS reporting things that it does not need to report — and the user having no way to turn it off.

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.

Hi, Thanks for your views. I was hoping you might have insight on why even after I remove the software, as I didn't need it anymore, the background items are still be recorded as being present. Can't seem to find guidance on how to remove login items when the original software is no longer on the device.

Hi, Thanks for your views. I was hoping you might have insight on why even after I remove the software, as I didn't need it anymore, the background items are still be recorded as being present. Can't seem to find guidance on how to remove login items when the original software is no longer on the device.

How did you remove the software? If it is running a background process, you would need to use the uninstaller provided by the developer.

jpm16930 wrote:

Hi, Thanks for your views. I was hoping you might have insight on why even after I remove the software, as I didn't need it anymore, the background items are still be recorded as being present. Can't seem to find guidance on how to remove login items when the original software is no longer on the device.

Most of the software that causes this particular issue is software that most people simply can't remove on their own. You may be able to remove bits and pieces, but all you are doing is removing bits and pieces, leaving other bits and pieces still running. Only now, they are running in an unknown state. In some cases, if you remove software incorrectly, some of those bits and pieces may get baked into the operating system, permanently changing it in unpredictable ways. If that happens, you would need to erase the hard drive completely, reinstall the operating system, and not restore from backup. Fun stuff, eh?

It happen me too with some background demons installed from Chaos Group software (Vray render engine). This issue must be solved from the developer...you can only disable after restart....

I tried also to go to the folder where the file PLIST is located and deleted it...but if you do that, some malfunctions can occurs to some background app...

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?

calins73 wrote:

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 do know the story how these launchd tasks function just about better than anyone. I don’t experience this problem myself. I have tried to work with people who do experience the problem to learn more about why it is happening and how to fix it. Unfortunately, very few people are able to provide meaningful information.

I have been trying to stop people from damaging their systems as you have done. I think that will be more confusing in the long run. It may “fix” the notifications, but it will break any 3rd party software affected. There is no way to tell how broken they will be as each app is different.

My particular version of this problem produced multiple notifications of “Login Items” after every restart. Additional similar notifications would appear sporadically.

I went through my applications and logged out and/or disabled the licenses for every program that allowed it. Lo and behold, the constant notifications stopped; I assume the culprit program was no longer attempting to login, so no more notifications…

I copied serial numbers/passwords as I logged out to facilitate restoring the licenses.

I have re-connected Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, DaVinci Resolve, Topaz AI programs, ChronoSync, Sony Imaging Edge, and FotoMagico. The notifications have not recurred.

I plan to re-login to other programs from smaller developers at a slow pace and with frequent restarts to see if I can locate the offending programs. However, I can now use the programs that I use over 90% of the time with no annoying notifications. YMMV but hope this helps.

This has been driving me mad too, and I seem to have just fixed it!

As others have suggested, you need to find the offending files in LaunchAgents (check both root and user libraries).

Since some of the notifications are showing the name of the individual developer rather than the company, a quick Google may help.

For me, offending apps were Temp Monitor, Monity, and Stream Deck (Corsair Memory Inc).

The first two, I just uninstalled for the time being, and removed their corresponding LaunchAgent files, and after a restart they disappeared from Login Items. (I also reset the PRAM on restart just in case, but that probably didn't do anything).

For Stream Deck, I made sure I'd updated to the latest version, backed up my profiles first, then deleted the Elgato file in LaunchAgents and restarted. No more notifications! Hurrah. In order to make Stream Deck launch at startup again, I just downloaded the installer and installed the software "over itself" (no need to uninstall). It worked a treat, adding the file back into LaunchAgents and without causing the persistent notifications. I didn't even lose any of my Stream Deck settings. Results in other apps may vary.

This has been doing my fruit for weeks, probably months actually. It's f**king annoying that we pay a small fortune to own these normally great products but after every big update there's a niggle' and this time, which wasn't an issue on my Mac before Ventura, it's the very annoying loop of notifications that are pretty much absolutely pointless because there is bugger all we can do with them except click the X in the corner to make them sod off for a few hours or, if we're lucky, until the next reboot - which these days is more frequent than on Macs of yesteryear.

I finally got rid of most of the annoying little blighters.

One of the most challenging was 'GoToMeeting' which pooped up to wind me up on a regular basis despite not having a trace of a GoToMeeting or LogMeIn product on my Mac.

The pesky little rat-faced rectum stain that I can't eradicate for love nor money is Samsung Electronics. I can 1000% say that the word 'Samsung' can't be found in any file of any search of my 2020 16" dogs bollocks MacBook Pro that cost as much as the GDP of a small nation (feels like it) but still, on a daily *&^%^ UY&^%&^^ basis, I have the $%^%$^&*&^ faced notification on my screen and can't for the life of my get it to *&^%*& right off!!

There. That's that off my chest. Next!