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This article describes our routine policy for updates. In the event of a critical security vulnerability being announced, updates and reboots may be pushed more aggressively. The Information Security Office (ISO) policies require us to regularly apply security updates to all University-owned computers. Our goal is to make this process as unobtrusive as possible while balancing convenience with security.

You may need to restart your computer to apply these updates. Please regularly save your work to minimize the impact of this process.  

Mac users will see a UT-branded popup instructing them to apply software updates. This popup will continue to appear until the computer is updated.

• Nudge will be updated every 2 weeks, depending on the availability Mac OS patches. 
• During the first 6 days after updates are available, the popup notification will appear four times a day at 6 AM, 10 AM, 2 PM and 6 PM. Users may defer installing the updates for the first 6 days.
• On the 7th 13th day after updates are available, the popup will not go away until updates are applied. Mac users will not forced to reboot by this popup, however the updates may require a reboot after being installed.

 Macs running macOS 10.14 Mojave or later will see software update prompts that look something like this:

1. To start the update, click the Update Device button to bring up System Preferences, or you have the option to delay the install by clicking the Defer drop down and selecting Later to dismiss the notification. You'll be prompted again in a few hours.
   
   
2. Below are some examples of what you'll see if running Catalina 10.15 or later.  Click Update Now to begin:  NOTE: In Big Sur and later, the button may read "Restart Now" if the update has already been downloaded

If you see a macOS Upgrade Banner, do not click it!  Instead look underneath the banner and click the More Info button:

3. Make sure all updates are selected and click Install Now to begin.

Your computer will reboot during the install process so Please save all your work before starting this process.