When Software Update says that your Mac is up to date, macOS and all of the apps it installs are up to date, including Safari, Messages, Mail, Music, Photos, FaceTime and Calendar. That could help you sort out which ones to remove. Upgrade Now installs a major new version with a new name, such as macOS Monterey. However, when you update individual apps, the login for an Apple ID other than your own shouldn’t appear unless that app was purchased or downloaded by that other party. If you bought, inherited, were given, or found on the street a Mac that was previously owned and not wiped clean, you can wind up with apps installed that are registered to a previous user.īecause it’s a design feature, not a bug, there’s no way to get rid of this without deleting all the apps that were purchased or downloaded under that other Apple ID. This includes “free” apps, because such apps can have in-app purchases, which would also be associated. IDGĪpps purchased or downloaded with another Apple ID will persist in prompting you for that account’s password when they need to be updated.Īpple associates app purchases with the account that made the purchase. Macworld reader Arthur is trying to download updates via the Mac App Store, but is stymied, because an Apple ID associated with the previous owner of the machine appears prefilled in the Sign In dialog and can’t be changed.
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