Tahoe update, begone!

Like many Mac users, I ignored macOS 26 when it was released because Liquid Glass is…not good. And there are numerous other graphical inconsistencies as a result of the new coat of paint. I’m not going to document those. You can head over to my friend Michael’s blog where there are numerous posts you can search for that lay out all the issues.

I’m quite happy with macOS 15 Sequoia on my PowerBook M4 Max. (Again, doesn’t that flow so much better than MacBook Pro M4 Max?) So I ignored the update and things were all right in Mudville.

But Apple has decided it really wants users to upgrade, the irritations of which Michael has ably herded together, along with a nerdy solution courtesy of Rob Griffiths. And yes, quite frankly, I was tired of looking at and seeing the notifications pop up constantly, so I went to read Rob’s piece.

First thing I noted was that it applied to macOS 15.7.3; it was written back in January of this year, and I had already updated to 15.7.4. So I read through the comments to see if anyone had actually addressed this issue of Rob’s solution working or not with the latter version. No one had, but Jeff Hirsch had left a comment that had me running off to System Settings to give it a whirl:

Go into Software Update, switch your Beta Updates to the macOS Sequoia Public Beta channel and enjoy your nag free Sequoia experience. Done and done.

No profiles, no expiration. Just a quick and painless removal of those persistent Tahoe upgrade nags.

Yes! This is the kind of thing I was looking for: something simple, easily undoable when the time comes, and I don’t have to worry about a lot of copying and pasting in Terminal.

And what before my wondering eyes should appear?

Not only did the macOS 26 nag disappear, an update to macOS 15.7.5, heretofore unavailable, appeared. Not cool, Tim. Not cool at all.

Ran all updates, and now, once again, all was right in Mudville, for mighty Casey had hit a bases-clearing dinger.

Thanks, Jeff!