Background Items Added (notification loop) on macOS 13

[jerome-tgl]

Since upgrading macOS to Ventura 13.1, I'm getting "Background Items Added" notifications every few seconds.

I managed to stop them by toggling off the "syncthing" item in "Allow in the Background" preferences (System Preferences > Login items) but I don't know if this could prevent syncthing from working properly, and it's also always toggled back on automatically when I restart the computer.

[xor-gate]

This is not good, unfortunatly I don't own hardware to run Ventura. I think the notification is because the run in background was added (without menu bar icon). But to get a notification about this every few seconds is very weird...

[xor-gate]

@jerome-tgl you are not the only one: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/yecvhm/background_items_added_notification_loop/

[dainslef]

I have the same issue:
, and the homebrew synching service status has an error:

[xor-gate]

@dainslef you are using the homebrew service. Not the syncthing-macos wrapper.

[xor-gate]

According to a post on reddit (untested because I don't own hardware which runs latest macOS Ventura):

Seems like this is a fix:

1. Update to latest MacOS
2. In Terminal run the command: sfltool resetbtm
3. Reboot
   https://piunikaweb.com/2023/02/06/macos-13-ventura-background-items-added-notification-issue/

[marcopolo4k]

Upgraded to 13.2.1, got same issue. I installed synching using homebrew, and resolved this issue with brew update and brew upgrade. I also needed to resolve several errors in that process - just followed the homebrew instructions.

[xor-gate]

So you do not use the Syncthing macOS tray application? Or only the syncthing daemon with homebrew?

[robert-r-arles-disney]

This may not be a perm solution, but I was very glad to find it, so sharing here:

1. Reset using "sfltool resetbtm" from Terminal
2. Reboot

I didn't even need to reboot.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254341579?answerId=258699462022#258699462022