If you are struggling to turn off the Google Chrome Automatic Software Update on Mac OS X, you found a right place to resolve the issues. It’s very easy to disable auto-update function on Mac operating system. Please follow the instruction below to disable it 🙂

01 Method – Uninstalling Google Chrome Update Software

Step 01. Go to Application > Utilities > Terminal

Step 02. Type the following code into the terminal windows. (Copy & Paste) > Hit Enter

~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/install.py –uninstall

Step 03. Copy & Paste this code into the terminal windows > Hit Enter

sudo /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/install.py –uninstall

Method 02 – Disabling Google Chrome Update Software

Step 01. Go to Application > Utilities > Terminal

Step 02. Copy & Paste following code into the terminal and hit Enter.

defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0

*Note. To Enable Google Chrome Update Software again, Try to insert this code into the Terminal Windows.

defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 18000

8 Comments

liviu on May 5, 2016 at 2:27 pm

for me worked in this way:

sudo /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/ksinstall –uninstall
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Weaver on January 3, 2017 at 5:27 am

January 3rd 2017
Seems it doesn’t works for 55.02883.95 Version ?
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- pntblog on January 4, 2017 at 11:13 am
  
  We will check and update this. Thank you!
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silmaril on April 12, 2017 at 2:05 am

Hi there! Thanks for the post!
It appeared it was going to work with the option:
sudo /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/install.py –uninstall
but then it asks for my password and it simply won’t let me type anything! Please helppp!
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- Tom on June 13, 2017 at 5:31 am
  
  It’s normal, what you type just doesn’t show up, but it does exist there.
  So just type your correct password then press enter.
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Jezza on September 29, 2017 at 9:11 am

Success on a Mac Sept 29, 2017:

The “official” Google-given method given is this, but it doesn’t work.
In Terminal: defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0

The most foolproof method is to empty these directories:
/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/
~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/

Then change the permissions on both folders named GoogleSoftwareUpdate so that there’s no owner and no read/write/execute permissions.

In terminal:
cd /Library/Google/
sudo chown nobody:nogroup GoogleSoftwareUpdate
sudo chmod 000 GoogleSoftwareUpdate
cd ~/Library/Google/
sudo chown nobody:nogroup GoogleSoftwareUpdate
sudo chmod 000 GoogleSoftwareUpdate

If you want to be double-certain, then do the same for the folder Google one level up.
cd /Library/
sudo chown nobody:nogroup Google
sudo chmod 000 Google
cd ~/Library/
sudo chown nobody:nogroup Google
sudo chmod 000 Google

I did this immediately after installing the Chrome version I need for my machine, and it worked perfectly. Now when I check About Google Chrome it gives me the error “Update failed (error: 10)”
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- Rafael Serna on January 8, 2018 at 11:11 pm
  
  Yep, this is the way to go. I got really pissed when google forced .dev domains to https…
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- Greg on November 9, 2018 at 2:26 pm
  
  I’m having trouble reversing this to re-enable auto updates. I manually changed folder permissions to 755 but updates still fail after uninstalling Chrome, installing version 70, rebooting, etc. Any ideas?
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