![]() ![]() Also, the App Store app used to let you ignore updates from a particular app, but that option disappeared at some point in the past few years. Advertising an update that a Mac can’t install is at best unnecessary. ![]() The App Store app should reliably tell you when there are updates available for your Mac. That softwareupdate -ignore command should be given back to everyday users. Plus, clicking Update All will always result in that error about GarageBand requiring Big Sur unless you delete GarageBand from your Mac. The practical upshot is that Mac users who are delaying the Big Sur upgrade as we-and most Apple consultants and admins-recommend will also see a badge on the Dock icon for the App Store app. So if there’s a mistake here, it’s in GarageBand’s actual code and how Apple is marketing the app, not how it was distributed. Nevertheless, both Apple’s GarageBand page and the App Store page for GarageBand explicitly say that Big Sur is now required. (Most of the rest have been updated recently and still work in earlier versions of macOS.) It makes little sense that GarageBand, alone among Apple’s major productivity apps, would be restricted to Big Sur. ![]() However, if you haven’t yet upgraded to Big Sur, trying to update GarageBand will result in an admonishment that the update isn’t compatible with previous versions of macOS.Īt first, I thought this was just a mistake, an assumption bolstered by a report from a TidBITS reader in SlackBITS who called Apple support and was told it was just a bad package that would be fixed soon. In the Updates screen of the App Store app, most Mac users will be offered an update to GarageBand 10.4.1. With macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple seems to have taken the upgrade nags a step further. In other words, IT admins who have not yet certified a new version of macOS as compatible with their organization’s tools can hide the badge for their users, but everyday Mac users can no longer avail themselves of this trick. In the past, there was a softwareupdate -ignore command you could issue in Terminal to make the badge disappear, but Apple made it so that option is available only for Macs that are managed by an MDM solution. The macOS interface shouldn’t be cluttered with information that the user has deemed unnecessary. That’s problematic because it teaches users to ignore the badge, which could prevent them from installing a critical security update in the future. Unfortunately, there’s no Apple-provided way to make that System Preferences badge go away, so it constantly reminds the user that an update is waiting. Apple also pushes a notification-again, not something to protest as long as it doesn’t recur too frequently. Apple should be alerting users to the release of new versions of macOS. On the face of things, that’s not unreasonable. Most notable among these is how Apple badges the System Preferences icon in the Dock to indicate that a macOS update is available. Badges?īut some of the ways Apple encourages updates make using a Mac that’s not running the latest version of macOS a little less comfortable. Others are downright essential-if you don’t stay within two macOS releases behind Apple, your Mac could be exposed to significant security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in later releases. Some are technically justified-it’s unreasonable to expect Apple to forgo all forward motion on a system like Reminders, just so it can remain backward compatible forever. That becomes more true every year, particularly in the Apple world, where the company continually pesters users into upgrading in various ways. Implicit in the use of computer technology is the understanding that it will change, and you will have to go with the flow (see “ Why You Should Upgrade (On Your Own Terms),” 4 September 2015).
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