Close and turn off App Store notifications on the Mac. To temporarily turn off notifications, there are a number of options. First, simply swipe right - the notification will disappear for several hours. Repeat this twice within a day, and you will not see the same notification that day. If you keep seeing notifications to upgrade your Mac software you may be feeling frustrated, it’s helpful of Apple to let you know that an update is available, the company even downloads the.
Keeping your Mac up to date is an important security measure, which is why Mac automatically notifies you whenever an Update is available. However, if you are busy and do not want to be bothered, there is a way to stop Update Notifications on Mac.
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Stop Update Notifications on Mac
By default, Mac computers are set to automatically download Updates and notify users to install the Updates by clicking on Install or defer installation of updates for a temporary period of time (See image below).
Unlike other app notifications, Update notifications on Mac are interactive, which means they will not go away until you either Click on Install or click on Later.
Clicking on “Later”, provides you with four different options to choose from: Try in an Hour, Try Tonight, Remind Me Tomorrow or Turn On Automatic Software Updates.
In case you are so busy that you do not even have the time to make your choice, you can stop Update Notifications on Mac by using one of the following methods.
1. Use Do Not Disturb to Stop Update Notifications on Mac
This method is suitable, in case you want to stop all notifications on Mac, including Update Notifications and also notifications from all other Apps.
Click on the Apple Icon located in the top menu bar on your Mac and then click on System Preferences in the drop-down menu.
On the System Preferences screen, click on Notifications
On the Notifications screen, select Do Not Disturb from the left side menu (in case it is not already selected) and choose the Time Period during which you do not want to be disturbed by Update Notifications (See image below)
If you would like to permanently disable notifications, then make sure that the From time is always 1 minute ahead of the To time. As you can see in the image above, the from time of 7:01 AM is a minute ahead of the to time (7 AM).
2. Turn Off Automatic Update Downloads
This method is suitable in case you only want to Stop Update Notifications on Mac, while allowing notifications from all other Apps on your Mac.
Click on the Apple Icon located in the top menu bar on your Mac and then click on System Preferences in the drop-down menu.
On the System Preferences screen, click on the App Store option
On the App Store screen, uncheck Automatically check for updates option.
After this, you will now no longer be bothered by update notifications on your Mac.
However, you need to make sure that you remember to periodically check for Updates on the App Store and manually download the Updates, in case they are available.
Click on the Apple Logo located in the top menu bar of your Mac and then click on App Store in the drop down menu. On the next screen, click on the Updates tab and wait for your Mac to search for Updates.
In case an Update is available, Install the Update on your Mac by clicking on the Update button located next to the listed Update. In case of multiple updates, you can click on Update All button to Install all the available Updates on your Mac.
This short tip teaches you how you can disable Catalina upgrade notifications in the System Preference’s Dock icon and the ‘Upgrade Now’ prompt in the Software Update pane in macOS. You may want to do so, if you are not ready for the upgrade (such as Catalina compatibility issues etc) and if the notifications annoy you. These are just a few reasons why you’d want to stop macOS Catalina from showing up in Software Updates on your Mac. Since you want to disable this, you also would not want to see the red notification bubbles indicating that you have updates available. Do you also want to turn off upgrade notification badges in the dock? Then this article is for you.
How to Disable Update Notification in Software Update
This is very easy to do:
Please follow the steps:
1. Close the System Preferences app.
2. Open the Terminal app (Applications / Utilities; or you may use Spotlight)
3. Enter the following command and press enter. You may have to enter your password.
4. Catalina Upgrade notice will disappear now. You will see the when you open System Preferences (Apple menu > System Preferences > Software Update)
However, you may want to undo this later when you are ready to upgrade. You can do so easily as well. Here is how:
1. Again open the Terminal app.
2. And enter the following command and hit enter (again you may have to enter your password):
This will make Catalina Upgrade appear again.
How to disable Catalina Update Badge Notifications (the red bubble icon) in the dock
1. Open the Terminal app.
2. Enter the following command and hit enter
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3. Now you will need to restart the dock by entering the following command in the Terminal and pressing enter:
4. The dock will restart and you will not see the notifications badges.
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