I have been getting this notification every few days. Restart doesn’t correct it. I get a notification that there is a system upgrade available, when I click on it, my System Settings open up and I get the message that I am running the latest version and my Mac is up to date.
Wondering if anyone has suggestions how to get rid of the nagging notifications.
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Yeah, I’m seeing this too and others have reported it as well. I haven’t yet seen or figured out any way to get it to stop.
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This is a much anticipated 14.6.1 feature also known as the don’t-forget-to-update-to-Sequoia notification update. These pesky little notifications will ensure you have an awesome reason to update to Sequoia the first day it comes out. Can’t innovate my ass! 
In earnest though, it was reported almost immediately after 14.6.1 was released and there has been no news or development since. Poor QC on an update that was itself actually already the update to a flawed update. It’s insulting but I’m afraid this might just be one those bugs that will just remain forever with Sonoma. There is by now most likely near-zero work going into fixing Sonoma. To them it’s upgrade to Sequoia or suffer the consequences.
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I expect Apple will fix it in the next security update for Sonoma.
As Simon notes, poor quality control all around. After 14.6.1 came out, I heard there was another build or something that was also labeled 14.6.1. I never saw that, but about a week ago 14.7 came out and I installed it on my desktop and laptop Macs. That may be what the update notices are about.
14.7? Interesting. I guess I’ll wait and see when that becomes generally available. I don’t jump on these updates right away, I like to have @ace try it out first for me! LOL
I’ve seen it too, but I don’t restart often so it only appears rarely.
And, by the way, you may need to buy a new machine to run Sequoia as well.
14.7 is on beta. Production systems outside of beta should not be affected.
I rarely restart either. But notifications still show up every other morning or so regardless.
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Thankfully I have not seen a single one of these.
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Normally, when two different builds come out quickly, it’s due to a problem with installation that doesn’t affect all users. Those who have already installed that version will not see the second build offered since the resulting installations are identical.
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FWIW, I saw this with the 14.6.0 update. But I ignored the two spurious upgrade notifications that occurred before I got a real notification for 14.6.1.
The spurious notifications have not gone away after 14.6.1.
This is probably one of those things that Apple will someday fix, but never let us know that they changed anything.
Right now, since I’ve been getting these notifications every few days with nothing to install, I’m assuming that they’ve got a bug that pops up the notification every time the system checks for updates, whether or not it finds one that can be installed.
Probably a simple one-line typo in the code somewhere, but because it’s not causing any systems to actually fail, fixing is low priority, and it will stay that way unless something happens to embarrass the company in the press. And if someone finds and fixes the bug on his own time, the code review and testing needed for release will similarly be at low priority. So we may very well not see the fix released until version 15 when (we assume) Apple will run their full suite of tests prior to release.
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My MacBook Pro periodically gets the message “Updates Available - New software is ready to be installed.”
I go to the Update section of System Settings and get told “Your system is up to date”
This happened today (Sept. 3rd) as well as Aug 29th. And a couple times before then. At first I thought it was a fluke. But it keeps occurring.
Nothing like this until the most recent macOS incremental update.
It’s a 2021 M1 Max MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.6.1
Is this safe to ignore or should i be concerned.
Everyone running Sonoma 14.6 and later is seeing this.
There’s another discussion thread already running for this topic:
I assume @ace will want to merge the two threads, so please post all replies over there.
There’s another discussion thread already running for this topic
Thank you
- I scanned the most recent topics but must have been screen blind and missed it or failed to go far enough through the topics.
I must be late to the party. I’ve not seen this on my M1 Mac mini on either 14.6 or 14.6.1.
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Happens to me all the time in Discourse. Often I come across older threads I would have liked to read but somehow never saw them despite my daily visits.
Once a week or so. Especially after rebooting