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

Thanks. The trouble is that I don't know which apps are causing the notifications. Do I assume it's all the ones in the login items list?

It looks like you have more identified background items than the rest of the world combined. I only see a few in your list that are unidentified. Some of those have developer names you may be able to search. One is calling a built-in function, kextload, so it is trying to start a kernel extension. It should only ever need to run that once. And, that function has been deprecated, so whatever is calling it should be updated to do it correctly.

For myself, the Microsoft Autoupdate and Licensing helper do not cause notifications.

I also run Carbon Copy Cloner and never get any notifications on that.

Alain_D wrote:

What is really annoying is that there is no information in the notification related to the application which triggers it.

Apple should be able to at least add this information to this notification.

It’s there. You just have it turned off. Go into System Settings > Notifications and set previews to show always.

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.

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 remove the apps in order to isolate the problem.

These are apps that I use on a daily basis as well including Zoom, Box, SnagIt.

Once fixed, I reinstall the apps and the Notifications have not returned.

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 disabled login items and problem got worse. reinabled one by one and now i have a list of login items on startup and restart that takes forever to delete.

This is so annoying and consumes so much time it is finally forcing me to consider leaving apple mac after all these years.

Apple has taken a step back into the dark ages when users had to continually fiddle with settings, reinstalling, etc.

I feel the same way. I used to like Apple because I was not bombarded with notifications. I felt in control, but, now, notifications pop up everywhere and it does not matter that I turn them off completely. Nothing matters anymore, notifications will notify you of nonsense everywhere (iphone, mac, etc) all the time. We’ve lost control. I am sad to leave Apple, but I have no choice at this point.

I'm not sure that the grass is greener on Android or Windows.

MacOS/iOS are very stable, and this is a huge benefit, that I would not sacrifice so quickly ...

And frankly, beside this login item issue, we really are in control of notifications.

I almost always refuse notifications from apps that I install (and iOS always ask if notifications have to be enabled).

Thank you all for the assistance. Done everything except ‘downgrade’ from Ventura. Still getting notification pop-up at start up and restart. Fed up with it now so going back to Monterey.

Please, no need to reply further.

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.

Well I think I finally solve my issues. I found the Cleanup Script for the Samsung App and deleted it. Then I re-installed the Google Chrome App and the notifications stopped. Have restarted twice and no notices. Yippee! It has been a frustrating affair. This has been far more help in identifying the source than Apple Support phone service. They could not even tell me how to identify which apps were causing it. A simple setting in notifications put the finger on the culprits. Thanks to this thread someone posted to turn on preview in the notifications. Thanks for the help.

I do not know which App(s) is causing this. This started after the latest OS upgrade.

I am using the MAC for my video editing only.

I would ditch the MAC if not for my FCP X.

There is no solution for this unless Apple does something about this.

Enough!

Try going to notifications in settings and turning on the preview setting there. That was how I found the 2 apps causing this on my Mac. Deleted one app and re-installed the other app and no more notices. Preview setting adds info to help ID the cause. Hope this helps.

Thank you Jacobx. Upgrading to 13.2.1 didn't solve my problem nor did any of the other turning off/deleting this and that suggestions above. The article you linked did work and the steps were very easy to follow and do! It definitely helped me!