turn off badge for update to OS 15

I'm on a Mac Studio at work where we need to keep this machine on an older OS. Is there any way to turn off the badge on the System Settings icon (which I keep in my Dock) that, in perpetuity, is telling me it wants me to update to Sequoia? I would prefer for the computer to stop telling me it wants to update when I have a valid human reason for not doing so.

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Posted on Aug 27, 2025 05:27 PM

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Sep 2, 2025 11:02 AM in response to ykt28403

ykt28403 wrote:

I'm on a Mac Studio at work where we need to keep this machine on an older OS. Is there any way to turn off the badge on the System Settings icon (which I keep in my Dock) that, in perpetuity, is telling me it wants me to update to Sequoia? I would prefer for the computer to stop telling me it wants to update when I have a valid human reason for not doing so.


—You can safely ignore it...


—you can try from the Terminal.app copy and paste:

sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS  Sequoia” 


followed by:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && Killall Dock



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turn off badge for update to OS 15

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