{"id":15890,"date":"2016-10-03T18:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15890"},"modified":"2021-06-29T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:02:58","slug":"disabling-macos-beta-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/disabling-macos-beta-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling macOS Beta Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2016\/09\/30\/leaving-last-betas\/\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2016\/09\/30\/leaving-last-betas\/\">\n<p>There&rsquo;s a good reason why I don&rsquo;t want the betas installed on that Mac: it&rsquo;s the one that runs the version of macOS that most of my customers will be using. It&rsquo;s also the machine that submits products to the App Store, and we all know how picky they can be about tool and OS versions.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>To turn off beta updates I first quit the App Store app and checked that there was a beta seed URL for Software Update using the Terminal[&#8230;] I then nuked it:<\/p>\n<pre>$ sudo defaults delete \/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-10-03): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/783072694489210880\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/783072694489210880\"><p>I think <tt>sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog<\/tt> is sufficient by itself. That&rsquo;s all I needed to [do].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wenge\/status\/783127361264898048\">Jim Zajkowski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wenge\/status\/783127361264898048\"><p><tt>sudo \/System\/Library\/PrivateFrameworks\/Seeding.framework\/Resources\/seedutil unenroll<\/tt> (or you can switch to the public beta)<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Hockenberry: There&rsquo;s a good reason why I don&rsquo;t want the betas installed on that Mac: it&rsquo;s the one that runs the version of macOS that most of my customers will be using. It&rsquo;s also the machine that submits products to the App Store, and we all know how picky they can be about tool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-29T19:03:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"70deb7c6-4af7-43cd-94c9-2fcdbda4fc88","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-29T19:03:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcN63xkr3Q82UyS_NvaT8iA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[649,30,39,1381,2087],"class_list":["post-15890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-12","tag-software-update"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15890"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15905,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890\/revisions\/15905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}