A Little Frustration with Mojave

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I have been testing Mojave (now OS 10.14.2) on my new Samsung 860 EVO 500 gig external SSD, and for the most part, testing has proceeded very, very well. All my third party applications work flawlessly with it, and the OS itself seems "smooth". However, there is one annoyance that I need some help with. Let me explain.

First, I do not use any Social Media sites at all. No FaceTime, Twitter, etc.

Secondly, when I did my clean, fresh, "virgin" installation of Mojave, I did not "tweak" anything, as I was able to easily do a migration of needed "stuff" from my High Sierra environment on my late 2012 Mac Mini.

In any event, quite often I am getting the following dialogue below while I am running Mojave. I have tried to find the culprit (Looked in Users & Groups > Startup Items, but not there; also cannot see any FaceTime preference), but to no avail. How can I get rid of this?

 

[honestone]

Anybody that can help with this issue?

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello,

Try opening the FaceTime application in the Applications folder. Then, Preferences > Settings > Sign Out.

FaceTime is linked to an Apple ID account.

C

 

[honestone]

Thanks, Cory. That worked, at least for FaceTime. But now I get the same dialogue for iMessage. Did not see the iMessage application. Is that a system preference that I need to "tweak"?

This is definitely frustrating, as I did not have any such "stuff" running and/or active with High Sierra. Are there any other similar apps for which I could get those annoying dialogues?

 

[Cory Cooper]

No worries.

FaceTime and Messages replaced iMessage. I bet there is a Keychain entry for iMessage that you could safely delete. Look in Keychain Access and see if there is an entry that references iMessage.

Also, do you use the Messages app? If there isn't a specific iMessage entry in Keychain, try opening the Messages app and look in the Accounts section. Disable/Sign Out of any accounts in there if you don't use it.

C

 

[honestone]

Thanks again, Cory. I'll have to wait to try it, as we ate getting ready to leave for the airport. I'll test it out once we get to our son's place in London.

Thanks again!