Turn off login items notifications in Ventura

By Mlth, 4 November, 2022

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macOS and Mac Apps

Update: See comment below for a temporary workaround
Hi
Does anyone know how I can turn off notifications that look like this?: "Login Items, Background Items Added, Software from “VMware, Inc.” added items that can run in the background. You can manage this in Login Items Settings."?
I get a ton of them every time I boot my mac or open certain programs, and clearing all notifications in notification center doesn't take them away either.

Best
Malthe

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By Igna Triay

1 year 1 month ago

I've been wanting the same, as notifications like this are driving me crazy. Hopefully apple fixes this because these notifications are detrimental and bothersum honestly.

By Mlth

1 year 1 month ago

Update! Temporary solution:
I found a script to clear all notifications, even the login items ones. This works for me. Pasted here for your convenience with a VoiceOver status message added, but credit to this original link:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ptujec/LaunchBar/master/Notifications/Dismiss%20all%20notifications.lbaction/Contents/Scripts/default.applescript

tell application "System Events"
try
set _groups to groups of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of window "Notification Center" of application process "NotificationCenter"

repeat with _group in _groups

set _actions to actions of _group

repeat with _action in _actions
if description of _action is in {"Schließen", "Alle entfernen", "Close", "Clear All"} then
perform _action

end if
end repeat

end repeat

end try
end tell
tell application "VoiceOver" to output "Done!"

By smiles

10 months 2 weeks ago

How do you reverse this script? I don't want to execute it without a way back.

By Pax

10 months 2 weeks ago

this just removes the notifications, but doesn't block new ones.

By Mlth

10 months 2 weeks ago

Hi
Yes - this is why it's not a good permanent fix I tied to a keyboard commander in VoiceOver, and press it every boot to remove them. It's a hacky solution, but probably the best at the moment.
With regards to reversing the script, it doesn't change any settings, simply interacts with the UI and saves you going into the Notification Center to clear them all manually. I get about 8 of these per boot, so it saves me a bunch of key presses.

Best
Malthe