I've filed a few FBs about this system over the summer, most notably that it tends to just dump a whole bunch of alerts on the user at once What items? What is “System Events.app” and why is it in quotes? I’m not sure this new notification in macOS Ventura could be less helpful if it tried. If your app requires Ventura, you can use only the new Ventura-specific API to launch on login and keep your app out of the “runs in background” list. There should definitely be a distinction between simple login items and launch agents / daemons, which are the things that do in fact allow an app to do stuff when it’s not running.Īlso, this is only a problem for apps that want to work on pre-Ventura versions of macOS.

And when a developer explains, the user won’t believe the truth because the OS says otherwise. Ventura’s handling of “launch on login” will make users suspicious of apps that the OS says can do stuff when they’re not running, even if that isn’t true. To be clear, the problem with Ventura listing apps set to launch on login under the “Allow in Background” section is that it implies they can “perform tasks when the app is not running,” as the text says. The new () and unregister() calls will add and remove an app from the “Open at Login” section, but nothing seems to remove an app from the “Allow in the Background” section. You can see this with the SMLoginItemSetEnabled API:Įnable your Service Management login item by calling SMLoginItemSetEnabled with true.īack in your app, disable your login item by calling SMLoginItemSetEnabled with false.Ĭan this really be true? If an app ever wants to be able to launch on login in Ventura, it must forever appear in the “Allow in the Background” section of the Login Items screen in System Settings? It doesn’t show what programs will be launched at login, it shows what programs are allowed to be launched at login. These items are always launched at login, and are intended to be under the control of the user.Īllow in the Background has different semantics. Open at Login shows a list of login items, per the legacy kLSSharedFileListSessionLoginItems API.

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