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(No longer possible) Ignore Sequoia for 90 days

katbel said:
Oh yeah! I have it too, sigh
Can we delete it?
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With SIP disabled from Finder, with SIP enabled from Terminal in Recovery.

I have SIP disabled and only the profile from #60 installed. I deleted ProductMetadata.plist , index.plist and the Rosetta folder from /Library/Updates/ and rebooted. After that, Software Update found and installed without giving any notification (as it should) two XProtect updates.
 
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bogdanw said:
With SIP disabled from Finder, with SIP enabled from Terminal in Recovery.

I have SIP disabled and only the profile from #60 installed. I deleted ProductMetadata.plist , index.plist and the Rosetta folder from /Library/Updates/ and rebooted. After that, Software Update found and installed without giving any notification (as it should) two XProtect updates.
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Deleted 🙂, thanks
How do you know you had the two updates installed?
 
katbel said:
How do you know you had the two updates installed?
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System Information- Software- Installations.
I also opened /Library/Updates just after restart and caught them being downloaded and installed.
 
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Today I had the usual Updates available. I checked just in case and got the old
Screenshot 2025-01-08 at 4.57.38 PM.jpg
I didn't delete it, and today is still working LOL
 
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katbel said:
Today I had the usual Updates available.
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I got that too recently.

First I tried deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist. It didn’t work, I got the notification again a day later.

Yesterday I tried setting the value of UserNotificationDate to 2035 :) inside ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist

Code: 
defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate UserNotificationDate -date "2035-01-01 00:00:00 +0000"

I’m curious if this trick fixes the phantom notifications.
 
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bogdanw said:
I got that too recently.

First I tried deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist. It didn’t work, I got the notification again a day later.

Yesterday I tried setting the value of UserNotificationDate to 2035 :) inside ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist

Code: 
defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate UserNotificationDate -date "2035-01-01 00:00:00 +0000"

I’m curious if this trick fixes the phantom notifications.
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I love the 2035 😅
I'm doing the same experiment, thank you!
 
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Even though the profiles to stop notifications and to not download sequoia automatically are installed, My Macmini somehow downloaded itself (again!) ver 15.1 (but it did not installed it) and new notifications appear now... they can't stop trying to force you to update to sequoia... :rolleyes:... which I will probably be skipping. 🤦‍♀️

EDIT: PS: I forgot to say I get these notifications ALL THE TIME.
 

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If defaults read com.apple.SoftwareUpdate also returns a value for MajorOSUserNotificationDate, set that to 2035 as well:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date "2035-01-01 00:00:00 +0000"
 
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bogdanw said:
If defaults read com.apple.SoftwareUpdate also returns a value for MajorOSUserNotificationDate, set that to 2035 as well:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date "2035-01-01 00:00:00 +0000"
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Since I followed your instructions , at the beginning of Jan, I never got a notification again!
So far.. don't want to wake up the beast 😉
 
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Unlike the nondescript “Updates Available” notification, the “Upgrade to macOS Sequoia” notification might appear only after Sequoia is downloaded or at least macOS thinks it was downloaded.

I installed Sequoia on an external drive and forgot to delete the Install macOS Sequoia app from Applications. A few days after, I got the “Upgrade to macOS Sequoia” notification.
 
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Updating to the latest Sonoma 14.7.3 I found this weird connection, that happened before I updated yesterday
being 1 week old at least
I only imagine that is something not on my computer but on Apple servers
It's only me?
BTW System Update now shows a brief Nothing to update, but then it goes to: Sequoia is available
It doesn't bother me because there is no notification, so far

Screenshot Update.jpg
 
Software update makes some unusual connections, including direct to Apple IPs and on port 80. To prevent the update from failing, I disable the firewall during update.
 
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Installed it. A question; After day 90 I expect a message with an update request (install Sequoia). When I refuse, can I expert a message at day 91, 92, 93,… or again after +90 days?
 
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