We right here at Macworld encourage customers to put in OS updates sooner fairly than later, much less due to the brand new options (if there are any) and principally due to the necessary safety and bug fixes. Nonetheless, there are many good causes to show off automated replace installs in System Settings and skip the occasional OS replace. However, because it seems, that replace might set up even for those who don’t need it to.
Developer Howard Oakley has documented on his weblog how macOS installs updates even when you might have the setting to put in updates turned off. In Oakley’s occasion, he determined to cease updating his iMac Professional after a “barely traumatic” expertise with Sequoia 15.1.1. Oakley continued to get notifications for Sequoia 15.2, 15.3, and 15.3.1 which he subsequently declined. However he finally obtained a notification to put in the 15.3.1 replace now or later, with none possibility to say no. A background exercise was added to his Mac that scheduled the replace to put in in the course of the night time. Oakley posted the logs of the exercise to point out the method at work.
The logs even present how some processes that usually seem to the consumer throughout an set up will not be proven and native authentication (a.okay.a. asking for consumer enter) is disabled. Nonetheless, if the consumer units macOS to do an replace in the course of the night time, macOS skips these gadgets (such because the license settlement) as a result of the system asks the consumer to click on a button to proceed. There’s a presumption that the consumer isn’t obtainable to click on these buttons.
Oakley didn’t provide an answer as a result of he doesn’t know of 1. In the event you get a kind of notifications with out a decline possibility, you would presumably choose Set up later, flip off Wi-Fi, and shut down your Mac, however the notification will finally re-appear till the replace installs. This conduct doesn’t sound like a bug, as Apple has a historical past of “encouraging” customers to put in the newest variations of its OSes and it seems that Apple is forcing the updates after a set time frame between updates.
You’ll want to take a look at Oakley’s weblog, which is a terrific mixture of Mac technical articles and posts about portray. Oakley is a longtime Mac developer who has written a number of nice Mac utilities.
