Is there a way to disable update notifications in Mojave?
If you want to disable updates for specific apps, you can use softwareupdate --ignore.
Do all the following in Terminal
Start with
softwareupdate -l
to list all available updates,
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
to find the Identifier of the app you want to ignore, and then
softwareupdate --ignore 'Identifier'
to ignore the update. Should disappear from Software Updates in System Preferences immediately.
No
After hours on the phone with Apple's techs, the answer is simply that there currently isn't a way to silence notifications. They have various workarounds, like uninstalling any apps that might have updates or silencing all notifications, but all of them have undesirable side effects, unfortunately.
I just found this workaround:
- Backup and remove
/Library/Bundles/OSXNotification.bundle - run
softwareupdate --ignore macOSInstallerNotification_GMin a terminal
[http://osxdaily.com/2018/10/26/stop-upgrade-macos-mojave-notifications/]