Why do Apple Pages, Numbers and Keynote keep reinstalling themselves on my Macbook Pro?

I keep deleting these apps and they keep spontaneously redownloading themselves.

I know there's some setting somewhere that tells your device to download the same apps you get on the other devices but I don't think I have this enabled.

I also don't have these apps installed on any other Apple products.

How do I get them off and keep them off?

MacBook Pro

Apple M11

macOS Ventura 13.5.2

Posted on Sep 12, 2023 7:45 AM

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SGIII

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Sep 13, 2023 10:12 AM in response to lichtgeistt

I forgot to mention that I have Word, Excel, Numbers, and Pages on my machine and have never had an "override" problem. Just follow the instructions in the link in my post above.

Peggy

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Sep 13, 2023 2:58 PM in response to lichtgeistt

Did you try clicking on the greyed-out slider? I found that I had to click on the slider & then a dialog box asking for my password appeared. Then I could "unlock" the setting.

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