Question about Messages App

[Aquaporin]

I restored from Time Machine after playing around on Big Sur and I feel like I got the wrong version of the messages app. Under file, I now have Enable Diagnostics Mode and Export Conversation...
I could only find a single Reddit thread which talked about finding this Enable Diagnostics Mode option but nothing about why or how to go back to a normal version.

Is this what it looks like for everyone and I am going crazy, or is there a way to go back to the normal version?

 

[Taz Mangus]

Messages→About Messages. What is reported for the version? On my Catalina install, Messages version is 13.0 (5500).

 

[Aquaporin]

Same version on my system. Do you not have those options?

 

[Taz Mangus]

Same version on my system. Do you not have those options?

No.

 

[Aquaporin]

No.

So weird. It wonder why a Time Machine restore triggered this mode.

 

[Boyd01]

Same version here, without your options.

 

[NoBoMac]

It wonder why a Time Machine restore triggered this mode.

Need to ask the obvious question: was the last Time Machine backup made pre-Big Sur? Can see a plist getting restored that has debug options toggled on. No idea which one that might be.

 

[Taz Mangus]

If you create a new clean user, login to the new user do you still still those options in Messages app?

 

[Aquaporin]

Need to ask the obvious question: was the last Time Machine backup made pre-Big Sur? Can see a plist getting restored that has debug options toggled on. No idea which one that might be.

I did a restore to a June backup of 10.15.5 and it had the debug options even after updating to 10.15.6. I’ll try the new account to see if it persists.

 

[Aquaporin]

These options were still there when I created a new test user account.

 

[Aquaporin]

Doing a reinstall of MacOS with Apple R didn't fix it either. I thought for sure that would do it.