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It is possible to set up MacOS without an iCloud account, but they do try hard to get you to sign in. You have to be diligent about looking for buttons like "Sk
by dreamcompiler 4y ago
It is possible to set up MacOS without an iCloud account, but they do try hard to get you to sign in. You have to be diligent about looking for buttons like "Skip," "Not now," and "I'll do it later."
Fortunately those options still exist, but the pressure to sign in has been increasing over the last several versions of MacOS.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoEm... No. Have you used a Mac? They only ask you once during setup, and have only one popup asking if you are sure.
- vetinari 4y agoNot true. Right now, I have MacOS Ventura nagging me to update my iCloud password, for the account "(null)". Notifications, System Settings badge, System Setting menu item drawing attention to "update available", all the enchilada. "defaults delete com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs" doesn't work anymore. Bug? Might be. But it happens to achieve the same kind of nagging that Microsoft is famous for; it passes the duck test.