How do I get rid of pop ups: iCloud, Facetime and others

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How do I get rid of pop ups: iCloud, Facetime and others

I've been setting up my three Late 2013 iMacs with Mojave and Catalina. Almost every time I boot into one of these machines, Apple starts annoying me with various message about iCloud, Facetime, etc. I enter my password, add the code they send me, do various things asked of me, and then next time I boot up (on any or all of the machines), similar messages appear.

I don't use iCloud, Facetime or anything like that. So it's rather annoying that during setup, I've had to enter these details 20 or 30 times.

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How do I tell my three machines (and each has Mavericks, Mojave and Catalina installed) that I never ever want anything to do with iCloud and it's associates.

Posted on Jul 4, 2024 10:13 PM

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Guy Burns Author

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Jul 6, 2024 3:42 AM in response to Guy Burns

I've worked this one out myself.

Apple wants to make these things easier to use, so they make them pop up automatically and you sign in to use them. So, me being a non-user, I have to log into each of these pop ups, navigate to the turn-off section, and shut them down.

It seems to me this is the wrong way around. If someone wants to use these things, they should open up the relevant app and away they go; instead of someone who doesn't want to use them, having to open, navigate, and then turn them off.

Anyway, it's fixed.

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