PSA: It is important to read all the software update buttons. Even if you ignore the first big Tahoe ad (same will apply to pads and phones), and just choose to "update", the upgrade to Tahoe is checked by default and the button will read "Upgrade".
This disingenuous practice which Apple has been practicing for years now, has resulted in many non-consentual OS upgrade.
The roll back process, especially without proper backup can be next to impossible, and the Liquid Glass UI roll out is just latest in failures of a company that false advertised AI, lies in court and dines with dictators and gifts them gold.
On a conspiratorial side note, this company is now fully Fourth Reich compliant, so careful installing anything new that might open up new backdoors.
/rant
I don't understand the issue. Apple has changed their interface and that is part of an update that just released. There's no being suckered or swindled into something.
This is about the misleading "Update Now" button being an actual upgrade button unless you click the (i) first and uncheck the Tahoe upgrade.
You sound like someone who wanted to upgrade. If you don't want to Apple tricks the hasty clickers into accidentally upgrading and has done this for years, except this time you are forced a GUI change that is still pretty beta and not for everybody, so actually getting the user's consent matters more.
I still don't get it. Just don't update if you don't want to.
I’m not sure how to explain it better.
I want to update (the progression of going up a minor version in the software business. E.g.: 15.6.1 to 15.7).
When a MacOS user tries to do that, Apple tricks them into upgrading (the term for going up major version. E.g. 15.6.1 > 16.0), which pushes people into Liquid Glass, while they explicitly tried to steer away from it by choosing to update, not upgrade.
That’s what this PSA is about. Does that make sense?
It doesn't make sense because nobody understands why you hate liquid glass and are taking it personally. You have to explain that part first. If we could agree with you that it is bad, then we could agree with you the forcing it is bad.