{"id":42068,"date":"2024-02-09T19:29:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T00:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42068"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:59:34","slug":"how-to-stop-macos-upgrade-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/09\/how-to-stop-macos-upgrade-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop macOS Upgrade Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2024\/2\/2.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2024\/2\/2.html\"><p>Instead, you get harassed by frequent notifications imploring you to &ldquo;Upgrade to macOS Sonoma&rdquo;, notifications that won&rsquo;t take no for an answer. They don&rsquo;t even have no for an answer! And if you click the wrong thing, you&rsquo;ll <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2024\/01\/22\/ventura-and-monterey-users-beware-unwanted-sonoma-upgrades\/\" title=\"Ventura and Monterey Users: Beware Unwanted Sonoma Upgrades\">accidentally, silently install Sonoma<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The solution in this case is actually quite simple, one little Terminal command:<\/p><pre>defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date \"2025-02-07 23:22:47 +0000\"<\/pre><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/22\/macos-14-3\/\">macOS 14.3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/13\/macos-14-sonoma-shipping-soon\/\">macOS 14 Sonoma Shipping Soon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/29\/options-in-macos-update-notifications\/\">Options in macOS Update Notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"how-to-stop-macos-upgrade-notifications-update-2024-02-14\">Update (2024-02-14): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2024\/02\/12\/can-you-avoid-a-forced-upgrade-to-sonoma\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2024\/02\/12\/can-you-avoid-a-forced-upgrade-to-sonoma\/\">\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2024\/01\/22\/ventura-and-monterey-users-beware-unwanted-sonoma-upgrades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a detailed analysis<\/a> by Adam Engst on TidBITS laid the blame on what could only have been a serious bug in the upgrade notification, I&rsquo;ve had reports from users who insist that they never saw or dismissed that.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>For Macs with more than one user, that key-value pair must be set in each user&rsquo;s <tt>~\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist<\/tt> to ensure the notification doesn&rsquo;t occur.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If those forced upgrades had been initiated independently of that notification, as some accounts imply, then blocking its appearance wouldn&rsquo;t have prevented the upgrade from occurring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/post\/tag\/forced-updates\/\">Ric Ford<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson: Instead, you get harassed by frequent notifications imploring you to &ldquo;Upgrade to macOS Sonoma&rdquo;, notifications that won&rsquo;t take no for an answer. They don&rsquo;t even have no for an answer! And if you click the wrong thing, you&rsquo;ll accidentally, silently install Sonoma.[&#8230;]The solution in this case is actually quite simple, one little Terminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-02-10T00:29:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"b227313b-44aa-4fd2-a294-8ef4ad607e18","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-02-14T15:59:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AsicxO0SqT9KilI70rWB-GA","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":[1836,649,30,2385,2087],"class_list":["post-42068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dark-patterns","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-software-update"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068","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=42068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42104,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068\/revisions\/42104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}