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Security Update 2020-003 for Mojave brings back the Catalina update reminder

This morning I ran Mojave Security Update 2020-03 released yesterday on my MacBook Pro. After updating to my surprise the Catalina update was back.

This pissed me off because I never planned on upgrading to Catalina. That’s why I had previously hidden it using the terminal command (sudo softwareupdate –ignore “macOS Catalina”).

Now in 10.14, you can no longer use softwareupdate —ignore to hide/block a major Update like macOS Catalina after installing the 2020-003 Security Update. I tried and this is what I got:

“Ignored updates:
(
“macOS Catalina”
)

Ignoring software updates is deprecated.
The ability to ignore individual updates will be removed in a future release of macOS.”

Users Beware! This feels like Apple trying to trick/force us on to Catalina.

I found this Mr. Macintosh article that explains what’s happening in more detail.