How to manage system updates on macOS

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System updates are basic for your Mac considering they are meant to modernize the trusteeship as well-built as granted healthiness of your computer. Except sometimes you may want to hold off on installing a new update until you can be sustained that it won't pilgrimage any major problems. You likewise don't want your machine afterlight while you're in the middle of something.

Thankfully, there are lots of options for controlling how as well-built as back your Mac updates. Want to pull back you install updates? You can make sustained your enhancement doesn't update automatically. Don't want to anguish narrowly updates? Your Mac will booty intendance of it.

To preside your Mac's updates:

• Click on the Conurbation icon in the top-left crotch of the menu bar
• Click on "About This Mac." If you're curious, you'll be clunky to see what macOS version you're on.

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This window will show you which version of macOS your enhancement is running.

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• Then, winnowed "Software Update." Any bettering updates will show up in this window.

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If there are any updates bettering for your device, you'll see them here.

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• To make sustained your enhancement stays up to stage automatically, you can deterrent the box abutting to "Automatically keep my Mac up-to-date."
• If you don't want your Mac to update automatically as well-built as the box is checked, uncheck it. You'll get a pop-up window asking if you're sure. Contusion "Turn Off Mechanized Updates" as well-built as entrance your password back asked.

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Click "Turn Off Mechanized Updates" to confirm.

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• You can contusion on "Advanced..." in the Software Update window for increasingly options, like whether your Mac will automatically deterrent for, download, as well-built as install updates. You can likewise pull whether your enhancement will automatically update your apps (as versus to system as well-built as trusteeship updates).

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Check the boxes abutting to zero that you want your enhancement to handle automatically.

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