A weekly or fortnightly Reminder or Calendar alert could be useful here.
Mac system preferences badge update#
The main gotcha with this one is that you won’t see the update badge for other updates that may be relevant to your current install, so you’re going to need to develop the habit of making a regular check.
Mac system preferences badge software#
I’ve seen some suggestions of using a defaults command to try to address this, but it appears to be a temporary fix and has to be repeated every time you open Software Update, so I don’t recommend this particular trick.ĭefaults write AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 killall DockĪ better way to rid yourself of it is by replacing System Preferences in the Dock with an alias to the app instead. If you keep System Preferences in the Dock, you’ll notice that even after the previous step you still have the eye-catching red banner alert on the Dock. To reverse the above step, go back to the Terminal and use:
The main gotcha to remember after doing this is you won’t see Catalina updates, and even if you go to the App Store and try to “get” it, it will fail to install. Hit ‘return’ and type your admin password, which will be invisible when you do so.Īfter completing this step, you’ll no longer see Catalina advertized, but you’ll still have the red number “1” badge in both System Preferences and the Dock. Sudo softwareupdate -ignore "macOS Catalina" It’ll require a trip to the Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and an administrator’s password.įrom the command line, copy and paste the following: If all you want to do is stop Catalina appearing in the Software Update pane urging you to “Upgrade Now”, you can use this super tip from Macadmin guru Rich Trouton. Remove the Catalina Advert Inside Software Update There’s a couple of things to watch out for, too, so if you do choose to implement any of these workarounds, remember to bookmark this page for future reference when you want to undo any of the changes you made. Aside from those wanting to avoid the expense of their current 3rd party software demanding “pay-me for a new Catalina-compatible version”, there are those still using incompatible 3rd party kexts, 32-bit apps or who are just happy with the features and performance they’re currently enjoying.Īre they all condemned to having the annoying update notifications in their faces until they surrender to Apple’s will?įortunately not, but there are three different places the nags appear, and depending on how obsessive you are about not seeing the update and badge icons, you may or may not want to deploy some or all of the tricks described below. I know there are those that will deliberately run their Macs at least one major version behind the current version (though I can think of multiple security reasons why that’s not a good idea) and others who don’t want to update at all. (Note that LastUpdatesAvailable is 0, as you’d expect it to be.Unlike other applications in the Notifications preferences pane, there’s no entry for the System Preferences app itself where you can turn off the Badge app icon. Update settings are set to be as automatic as possible:
When I actually click on Software Update, though – surprise, surprise! – there are no updates available (last checked today at 9:43, which is ten minutes ago):
Unlike that question, though, when I open up System Preferences, the Software Update icon has the same update badge, so I can at least see where the Dock icon is getting its badge from:
I just upgraded to Catalina, and now my System Preferences icon in the Dock shows an update badge with an annoying little “1” in it:
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