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macOS unenrolled, but software updates still enforced
Hey all,
I have enrolled and unenrolled a privately owned MacBook Pro M1. However I still get managed software update notifications, see screen shot.
In English, this says "required managed update. unit must be charged at least 50% or connected to mains.
The unit will be restarted to apply the update. You can cancel this update 4 more times before it will be installed automatically.
This is a huge issue for me because I don't want to update to macOS 26 at this time.
I unenrolled the MacBook from the company portal. It no longer appears in the list of managed devices.
On the unit, under Settings, Device management, the profile list is empty:
I don't know how to troubleshoot further. I would be very grateful to anyone who could point me to some next steps to try.
Thank you
Selwin Kadijk
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So I since I only seem to have 4 days to get this fixed, I started cleaning up the machine. I removed Microsoft Office, Microsoft Defender and the CompanyPortral macOS apps. Then I removed every Microsoft entry in ~/Library Application Support, Application Scripts, Containers, Group Containers, HTTPstorages, Preferences and WebKit. I hope this will do it, but I only get one "managed update" popup a day.
Anything else I could do?
