It doesn't auto install or show up as a badge notification though, so you kind of have to go looking to find it. The exception though is that once a patch upda

It doesn't auto install or show up as a badge notification though, so you kind of have to go looking to find it. The exception though is that once a patch update for your current OS is available, it gets hidden by the Big Sur upgrade prompt, and you have to click into the non-obvious "more info" link to find that. Which seems like a bad UI choice, if you're going to force me into the upgrade then do it, but if you're going to let it be lighter touch then don't have it block out the other updates like that.