{"id":2137,"date":"2026-03-02T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:15:15","slug":"not-a-macos-26-fan-heres-how-to-block-the-alerts-or-downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/not-a-macos-26-fan-heres-how-to-block-the-alerts-or-downgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a macOS 26 fan? Here\u2019s how to block the alerts or downgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Not-a-macOS-26-fan-\u2013-heres-how-to-block-the-alerts-or-downgrade.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>My personal view is that <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/macos-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">macOS 26<\/a> is a decent upgrade on balance, despite a few <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/01\/13\/macos-26-windows-are-hard-to-resize-because-they-arent-really-rounded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">embarrassing mistakes<\/a>. I also think that a minority of <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/25\/mac-hardware-is-great-but-macos-26-is-a-disaster-say-pundits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">very vocal commenters<\/a> have given a misleading impression about the level of opposition to the Liquid Glass update. <\/p>\n<p>However, if you\u2019ve decided not to upgrade, you\u2019ll be pleased to know that you can stop your Mac nagging you to do so \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,macos-26\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1041347\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/02\/not-a-macos-26-fan-heres-how-to-block-the-alerts-or-downgrade\/#more-1041347\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My personal view is that macOS 26 is a decent upgrade on balance, despite a few embarrassing mistakes. ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}