TwistedTory wrote:
Since updating my 6 month old MacBook Pro to Ventura 13.1 this week, I receive a dialogue box after start up asking "do you want the application good.apple.geod.xpc to accept incoming network connections?
You have the firewall running. Turn it off. It's useless.
I also receive notifications several times a day for three login items adding or updating what they run in the background, yet two are turned off in login items, and all notifications are turned off. How do I turn off the notifications and/or activities?
Yes. This is a common complaint recently. The cause is certain 3rd party apps that aren't loading background tasks correctly.
Thank you - and yikes! I now want to revert to the iOS before Ventura.
Don't get too upset. One bad habit that most people on this forum have is assuming that every problem that looks the same, is absolutely identical, and can only be fixed by going back to the previous version of the operating system.
That thread being linked to above is a good example for the tools used to diagnose and solve this specific problem. However, the problem in that thread is completely different than your problem. They just have similar outward appearances. That problem turned out to be pretty serious for reasons unrelated to Ventura. Your problem may be much more minor and easier to fix. What you have to do is figure out what those three login items are. You will need to either uninstall them correctly and/or update them to the current version, assuming the current version works better with Ventura.
Now, some big, big caveats. When you uninstall, you have to be extremely careful. Certain types of modern software simply cannot be easily removed. I've given up trying to explain it, not because people don't understand, but because the current situation is simply too absurd to explain. You have to find out what those three problematic apps are and tell us. Then we can tell you if you can safely remove them. DO NOT use any kind of "app zapper" or "clean up" apps to uninstall software. DO NOT attempt to drag files to the trash (without consultation first). DO NOT attempt to perform any kind of manual uninstall. (Did I mention how absurd this has become?) Otherwise, if you do it wrong, you'll wind up that the poor schmuck in that thread above, having to wipe your hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch. You can't even do an easy restore from backup.
But if you provide the correct information, then we can tell you exactly what file(s) you need to drag to the trash to successfully uninstall software.
The ultimate problem isn't necessarily "bugs" with the current version of macOS. There was a change in Ventura that is causing certain poorly-designed 3rd party apps to exhibit repeated, annoying notifications. Those apps were always doing it wrong, but nobody ever noticed before Apple started pumping out those notifications (which you can't disable, by the way).
two are turned off in login items
If you want to blame Apple for something, blame them for this user interface. You might actually be causing the notifications. That new user interface in Ventura where you can "turn off" login item simply never should have been done. It was a horrible idea. I have a theory about why Apple did it, but it is well into conspiracy territory so I shan't elaborate. If you have made any changes in that login items user interface, you will need to uninstall any software you've modified. You can reinstall it afterwards if you really want to use it. But never user the login items user interface again. Maybe in two or three years, you will be able to safely use it on any software that has been updated at some point within the next two or three years. But it is too dangerous to be used now.
