Apple’s aggressive upgrades

This is how Apple gets its users to update to newer versions of its operating systems. I checked whether there were any updates and saw that Sequoia—which I still have installed because I am not interested in a whole new, worse UI—had an update.

Select to update MacOS Sequoia

I select to see information about updating macOS Sequioa and got the following dialog, cheerfully ready to “upgrade”.

Apple tries to trick me into upgrading to Tahoe

Stick it in your ear, Apple. I’m not interested.

When I reboot in a few minutes, I 100% expect to see it ask me to enable Apple Intelligence, which I’ve always been able to skip. I will continue to skip it for as long as I can but I realize that I am not in charge, not really.

I continue to avoid the Tahoe upgrade and the Apple Intelligence integration only because Apple allows me to.

For now.