At igamesnews, we encourage users to install the operating system updates as soon as possible, less due to the new features (if there are) and mainly due to significant security and bugs. However, there are many good reasons to deactivate automatic update installations in system settings and skip the occasional update of the operating system. But, in the end, this update can install even if you do not wish.
The developer Howard Oakley documented on his blog How MacOS installs updates even when you have the setting to install the deactivated updates. In the Oakley body, he decided to stop updating his iMac Pro after a “slightly traumatic” experience with Sequoia 15.1.1. Oakley continued to obtain notifications for Sequoia 15.2, 15.3 and 15.3.1 which he later refused. But he finally received a notification to install the 15.3.1 update now or later, without any option to refuse. A background activity was added to its Mac which has planned the update to be installed in the middle of the night. Oakley has published the activity newspapers to show the process at work.
The newspapers even show how certain processes which generally appear to the user during an installation are not displayed and local authentication (AKA requesting the user's entry) is deactivated. However, if the user defines MacOS to update in the middle of the night, MacOS skips these elements (such as the license agreement) because the system asks the user to click on a button to continue. There is a presumption that the user is not available to click on these buttons.
Oakley did not offer a solution because he does not know one. If you get one of these notifications without a decline option, you can probably select Install laterTurn off the Wi-Fi and close your Mac, but the notification will eventually reappear until the update is installed. This behavior does not look like a bug, because Apple has a history of “encouraging” switches to install the last versions of its bones and it seems that Apple forced the updates after a period of defined time between updates.
Make sure you consult the Oakley blog, which is an excellent mixture of Mac technical articles and painting publications. Oakley is a longtime Mac developer who has written several major Mac public services.
