Why does auto update keep turning itself back on?

amerkincynic wrote:

A couple weeks ago, with the computer set to never update running the latest version of Sonoma, overnight, it updated to Sequoia, this created all sorts of issues.... I went back in to system preferences and turned it OFF again, everything ( it had turned itself on for some reason, but not by the user ). I restarted and verified that it WAS turned off. I just got a message on that machine that it's going to update again tonight ( everything had been mysteriously been turned back on again ), now it's going to update and there is no way for me to abort the update. If I restart, update, if I do nothing, update.

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Not heard this before.

You can try a SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies;

certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt..

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

To be proactive you can file a bug report / submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

Call Customer Support (800) MY–APPLE (800–692–7753)

or on line https://getsupport.apple.com/

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If this is a notebook computer I would also verify—