One of the things that has not changed with the arrival of macOS Catalina is having to enter the password for those applications from the Mac App Store, which are free. Maybe with the Touch ID of the newest Macs, in danger of extinction, do not suppose a major disorder, However, those of us who have to enter the password using the keyboard are another matter.
When the password that we have enabled for our Apple IDs is something stronger than a simple 1234, it is a bit boring to have to enter the password every time we want a free application. The shape Deactivating it is quite simple, although in macOS Catalina, it has changed a bit. Let's see how to proceed.
The process to disable the password is easy and reversible.
It is true that having to enter the password every time we want to download a free application from the Mac App Store is for security. In this way, no one who does not know it can fill our hard drive with applications that we do not want. But when you are the only user of the computer, it is more convenient to disable this security measure.
- We open System preferences and we look for where it says Apple ID, up to the right.
- Click on Apple ID
- Now we will look at the left panel, and we will go to media and purchases. We click on this option.
- We look at where it saysFree downloads and we select the option: Never require
- We can now leave the system preferences box.
In this way, when we want to try any of the applications that are free on our Mac, it would not be necessary to re-enter the access password. However, some apps have in-app purchases within the application. If you do not want these purchases to occur by mistake, as simple as:
Within the free downloads option, we look for "applications or application plugins" and as before, we activate the option "never require".
Easy, right? Well go ahead.