Why "login items" notifications pop up while there's no app listed on startup or background?

I wanted to chime in say that I just upgraded to Ventura 13.1 and this issue is nightmarish. I've had to sacrifice 1/3 of my external monitors to these endless notifications that keep popping up no matter what I do. It's like a zombie movie where I keep shooting the bad guy, but it just won't die.

I use my mac for development and cannot just close the program triggering the notification, nor is it a good idea to go mucking around in unix binaries to try and find the offending line of code without touching anything else.

The fact that the suggestion here is 'deal with it, Apple unilaterally changed their API to ruin your experience, and you should learn to live with it' reminds me much more of a certain other OS that I ditched in favor of OSX years ago. You'd think they could recognize that 100+ of the same notification could easily be made one stationary stack in the UI.

For information, I've just updated to OS 13.2, and the problem remains.

Well, you've disabled them all, so they are all trying to reinstall their broken background processes. None of them understand Ventura's allowing you to disable their background processes, so all they can assume is they are broken and they try to fix themselves.

You’ll need to uninstall the Apps that are causing the notifications. Check to see if they have an update. If not, you can try reinstalling them. That might resolve the problem, but may not. You will get a notification when they first run the background process, but it might stop the subsequent ones.

Real Mccoy wrote:

You are right it has to do with apps. But your fix is to remove all the apps I need to do my work or others task.

apple needs to fix the issue. It’s a bug that happened 2 updates ago. The last update didn’t fix the issue.

Uninstalling and reinstalling the app has fixed it for some. The other fix is contact the developer and tell them to fix their software to work with Ventura. If you’re using an app, that’s no longer supported or poorly, supported, find something else.

I went thru and turned everything off and rebooted and they still keep coming back.

Well, that makes them come back.

You have to uninstall the apps that are running the background processes.

Reinstalling the apps might cause them to work correctly. But, if you turn off the background process you installed the app to run, it will just repair itself and you will get another notification.

I've been struggling with this problem for months, found this article that finally resolved the annoying notifications.

https://www.droidwin.com/remove-deleted-apps-from-background-login-items-in-ventura/

Hope it helps others.

Could be adware. I've had this problem and used... I don't know if I can mention the name of the software I used, I've gotten in trouble before for doing that. In any case there are programs out there which can remove spyware and adware from your device. Works beautifully! Careful however some of these programs can cause more trouble than they solve.

bartosz - did you try the solution proposed by Jacobx? It gets rid of the things mentioned by Barney and worked for me.

Here's the link: https://www.droidwin.com/remove-deleted-apps-from-background-login-items-in-ventura/

etresoft wrote:

These 3rd party launchd tasks are something that only exists on macOS, not iOS. Since macOS is rapidly behind phased out in favour of iOS, this is just this year's mechanism to clean out more of the old chaff.

macOS is not being rapidly “phased out in favour of iOS”, and you conflating their cleaning out “more of the old chaff” with that baseless speculation is just nonsense. I've used Macs since 2003, and I've seen Apple do precisely that for almost two decades now with a lot of their own APIs and frameworks… They had to phase out Classic Mac OS-related technologies, such as Carbon, and now they're phasing out NeXTSTEP-related ones; it's all part of their 10-year-ish technological cycle (look at how their processor transitions went for a frame of reference), and the fact that iOS-derived or even pure iOS ones are being used in macOS, and even the mess that is running iOS and iPadOS apps on macOS, doesn't mean anything about the latter's future (as a matter of fact, their relative unpopularity among die-hard Mac users further cements macOS's standing in the market).

This is just Apple really cleaning up shop (you at least got that part right, I'll give it to you), and taking advantage of yet some more economies of scale for their own OS engineers and opening those up to third-party developers. There will be extremely lazy ones who'll just make iOS/iPadOS apps available for the Mac, others will use Electron or Catalyst and do a terrible job at optimizing them, and others still will create proper Mac apps from the ground up, regardless of what frameworks they use.

Yeah, the day Apple gets rid of macOS and forces me to use an iPad, or run iPadOS on a Mac (or at least iPadOS in its current state, and without opening the app distribution marketplace – as they will be forced to in many jurisdictions anyway before said OS is even ready for desktop computers, incidentally, so there's some hope there), is the day I go back to a Windows PC. And Apple engineers, execs, etc. know perfectly well I'm not the only one who would do that; most recent and even old-time PC switchers, and even some old-time, all-time Mac users would, too. Using Steve Jobs's “truck analogy”, there are still trucks on the road, am I right? And while Apple did kill off servers, they're already on their third “server” iteration, with their rack-mountable, “cheese grater 2.0” Mac Pro, which may very well be killed off this month, so it's not exactly something that ever really stuck or was in their design and market DNA. Macs are wildly successful because they strike the perfect balance between simplicity and complexity/hackability, all these stupid bugs, oversights and forced transitions notwithstanding.

Hi, I have been having this problem recently. I have followed your steps and the notification continues to pop-up frequently, one after the other, every time I turn my computer on or restart.

Same here, the problem not is with the list of apps or opening them with the start, but with the notification which continues showing every time I turn on mac

Agree! This started after upgrade to Ventura 13.1. I have turned off all notifications and still the banners appear.

Your continuous negative commentary is counter productive. If you don't have a solution get off the thread or provide a possible work around.

Apple just released an update, lets see if this fixes the login prompts

Hey, guys! My issue has finally disappeared. I had s tech support person help me. He had to create two new folders in the login items window and it worked. Good luck!