{"id":38013,"date":"2022-12-29T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38013"},"modified":"2022-12-29T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:51:07","slug":"options-in-macos-update-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/29\/options-in-macos-update-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Options in macOS Update Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@isaiah\/109587633043247810\">Isaiah Carew<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@isaiah\/109587633043247810\"><p>Whoever is in charge of updates, really likes dark patterns.<\/p><ul><li>It asks a Yes-or-No question that it does [not] allow you to answer with Yes or No.<\/li><li>It doesn&rsquo;t provide any sort of &ldquo;snooze&rdquo; feature -- so non-techy users who might not know how to update manually are faced with now-or-never situation.<\/li><\/ul><p>I&rsquo;m pretty sure Apple knows they&rsquo;re doing this and it&rsquo;s done to &ldquo;trick&rdquo; users into updating even when they don&rsquo;t want to in attempts to artificially drive up numbers of people that stay up to date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The iOS alert for new OS versions also seems like it&rsquo;s trying to trick me. There <em>is<\/em> a way to decline without <em>scheduling<\/em> the update for later in the day, but it feels like a puzzle that I have to figure out each time.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chucker@norden.social\/109588337162030237\">S&ouml;ren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chucker@norden.social\/109588337162030237\">\n<p>I wish &ldquo;auto-update&rdquo; weren&rsquo;t a binary switch, mostly because for apps I care about, I want to know there&rsquo;s an update and read the release notes (but if I turn off auto-update, there&rsquo;s just a constant huge list, and a lot of apps are jerks about telling you what&rsquo;s new anyway)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/dismissing-big-sur-notifications\/\">Dismissing Big Sur Notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/no-thanks-vs-later\/\">No Thanks vs. Later<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah Carew: Whoever is in charge of updates, really likes dark patterns.It asks a Yes-or-No question that it does [not] allow you to answer with Yes or No.It doesn&rsquo;t provide any sort of &ldquo;snooze&rdquo; feature -- so non-techy users who might not know how to update manually are faced with now-or-never situation.I&rsquo;m pretty sure Apple [&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":"2022-12-29T21:40:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"7d5145d6-f10d-4065-a579-80e657dd64f0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-12-29T21:50:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfVFF1vENQGWleYDmV91k8A","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":[1836,77,31,2185,30,2223,111,2087],"class_list":["post-38013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dark-patterns","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-notificationcenter","tag-software-update"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38013","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=38013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38019,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38013\/revisions\/38019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}