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WEEKLYCOD posted Jul 08, 2026 11:57 PM

How do I stop this message from coming to me? Every time I am opening the app, only the message is appearing; there is no option in system settings to stop this. I am on sorry the app icon is changed because from settings I have changed every icon to tinted blue.

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You can’t.

The message is displayed by macOS every time you launch VMware Fusion because of the way Fusion is starting its background services using an older method that Apple has deprecated. . Fusion adds the scripts to start and stop its background services to macOS every time Fusion starts, and removes those  scripts when you quit Fusion. The adding of the scripts triggers the notification by macOS.  There’s no setting that turns this notification off.

The message is an annoyance, but is not an indication of a problem.

I remember seeing a “workaround” for this a couple of years ago that involved copying some of those service management scripts. I don’t recommend their use. 

This won’t get fixed until Fusion switches to a newer (and more secure) method provided by macOS to define and manage background services in an application.