Despite knowing the importance of updates in our Mac, why would someone want to disable macOS auto-updates? Reasons might differ from getting interrupted in the middle of some work to have all the data speed utilized at the backend when you need it the most. Whatever it is, it has been often noticed that people disable the auto-download functionality. If you too wish to turn off auto-updates on Mac, here’s a handy sharing how to get it done in simple steps.
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How to Enable or Disable Automatic Updates on Mac
You can set the App Store to automatically download and apply updates by opening System Preferences, clicking the App Store icon, and then ensuring there’s a tick in the box that reads. Go to System Preferences and select the app store, turn on Automatically check for updates and checkmark ON all the options. This includes download, install app updates, install macOS updates, and install system. Once selected, click on the button “Check Now.” See if making changes to your System Prefs makes a difference and solves your issues.
- In your Menu bar, click on the Apple logo and select System Preferences.
- Now, click on Software Update and tick the checkbox stating, “Automatically keep my Mac up to date.”
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Now, in case you wish to disable the same. Follow the same procedure mentioned above and uncheck the checkbox, and you will have to update your macOS manually.
Turn ON or OFF Automatic App Updates for Mac
- Open the App Store from your Mac Dock.
- Now, Click on App Store available in Menu bar and choose Preferences.
- Tick on the checkbox mentioning Automatic Updates.
Now, to disable the automatic updates on your macOS, you can directly un-tick the checkbox.
You can also automatically download purchased apps to other devices signed in with your Apple ID. Just tick on the checkbox, and the apps will automatically be downloaded to other devices using the same ID.
In your Mac, you can click on the checkbox saying Video Autoplay, which will eventually play app preview videos with the sound off on your device. And also allows the developers & other users to know about your review of the app.
Summing Up!
There might be times when you would love these automatic macOS updates, but these software updates might annoy you as well. Just in case you wish to stop these updates, here is another method from our side to help you disable them!
Open the Terminal Command box from Mac’s Spotlight search to copy/type the command mentioned below and press the Enter key.
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate AutomaticDownload -boolean FALSE
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The above-provided command will disable the software update if it’s currently switched to Automatically keep my Mac up to date.
I hope all of your questions regarding enabling or disabling automatic updates in your macOS have been answered. If you still have some queries regarding the same, do get back to us in the comment section below!
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The operating system for Mac computers has a convenient feature that allows the OS to automatically update itself whenever a new version comes out.
However, for media creators, these automatic updates can cause more problems, not less. That’s because we don’t use the operating system in a vacuum, it’s connected to our NLE software and a whole host of utilities, plug-ins and media, not all of which are updated at the exact same instant as the OS.
Removing an app may also remove all data for that app. Make sure you have any information you need backed up before removing an app for your Mac. To Remove an App Installed from the App Store. Open the Launchpad from the dock. Click and hold on an icon until all icons start to jiggle. Click the 'x' on the top left of the icon you want to remove. Apple mac remove unwanted apps.
Waiting to update the OS never hurts. I generally wait 3 – 6 months before upgrading.
Worse, the next version of the macOS will bring with it the demise of many older, but popular, media codecs. It would certainly be a bad idea to update only to discover you can’t play this older media.
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NOTE: Here’s Apple’s announcement about the end of life for 32-bit media codecs.
Fortunately, there’s an easy way to turn off these automatic updates. The process changed with the release of Mojave (v.10.14.x) – so, here are the steps:
Open System Preferences (its under the Apple logo in the menu bar).
Click Software Update to open it.
Uncheck “Automatically keep my Mac up to date.”
This turns off automatic updates. But, for more control, click the Advanced button.
Then uncheck everything except the top option. The two most critical of these options, for me, are:
- Install macOS updates
- Install app updates from the App Store
When these are checked, updates happen automatically, which I don’t want. Instead, I want to control when those updates occur.
NOTE: I’m of two minds about automatically updating security updates. Security updates are generally a good idea. On the other hand, waiting a day or two to find out of the cure is worse than the problem is also generally a good idea.
These are my settings. You can modify them as you like.
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Turning auto-updates back on is as easy as reversing these steps. You can change these settings whenever you like.
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