This has been an ongoing issue since the MAS was first introduced. The update badge on the MAS dock icon never displays waiting updates, but it you open the MAS and see the badge at the top that does show waiting updates, click on it, don't do the updates yet, the dock icon now displays the badge. What good is a notification badge if it doesn't notify me of waiting updates? Thanks for any thoughts on this.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
😁 😁 Forgive the humourous display, Larry, but usually it is the other way round. For years people have been complaining about the badge showing updates they can't get rid of. It just seemed funny that you should want them.
I suspect this is something to do with the alternative system in Mavericks but not having Mavericks I couldn't say ... but I know a man who does and can.
Regards, 71.
As my forum tag displays, I'm using Mavericks. Why would anyone NOT want to be notified if some of their apps need updating? I have purchased over 40 apps from the MAS store and I now have to manually open the MAS every day to see if any of them need updating. Surely Apple can do better than that.
Can't fault your logic, Larry. Perhaps I shouldn't have injected the smilies into my post, but I meant well.
Have you considered automatic updates which you can enable and disable at will?
Oh, I understand the humor in it...I'm just upset that Apple can't fix such a simple issue.
Update notification works correctly on my kit. So perhaps the issue isn't Apple at all, perhaps it's an issue on your kit.
Create a test user account on your Mac and see if the issue follows you to the new account. If not, at least the issue is in your user account and not your Mac in general.
Dah•veed, this issue is on two user accounts, and on two other Macs in my house...and it's a known issue if you Google it. In fact, I've had this very same problem since the beginning of the Mac App Store on every Mac I've ever owned, and since that time we're talking several Macs and several versions of OS X.
Oddly, if I go to the MAS and see the badge there on on "Updates" and then close the MAS without doing anything..."THEN" the badge is displaying on my MAS Dock icon.
Update Badge Doesn't Alert to Waiting Updates
