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  "path": "/forum/macos-mac-apps/determining-source-notification",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-23T07:03:07.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Hi all.\n\nPeriodically, for the last day or two, I'm getting the following notification popping up.\n\n\"Software Update, Close Apps Before Scheduled Update, Some apps may prevent your Mac from installing the software update later. Make sure you save documents and quit any open apps when you’re done for the day.\"\n\nInteracting with this doesn't tell me anything useful. I thought it might be the OS but that's up to date, 26.3.1.\n\nHow do I find out what's triggering this so I can either update the software or stop it? It's possible it's Steam but I don't readily see a way to update Steam from within Steam. You'd think most other apps would be taken care of by whatever updates apps.\n\nI just updated Mona so we'll see if that fixed it. But it would probably be useful to know how to determine what's doing it in the future, if it was Mona this time.",
  "title": "Determining the source of a notification."
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