Apple Update Shows Update after using Xcodes to update

[tpitman]

I used Xcodes to update to xcode 16.1. I am still showing in the Mac Settings for Available Updates that 16.1 is an update.

I am not sure Xcodes is supposed to suppress that or whether MacOS is supposed to detect that 16.1 is already on my computer.

I am just looking for an explanation....

[spadafiva]

Disclaimer: not the maintainer, just someone who has used the tool.

I think if you have (at any point) installed Xcode through the app store, it installs it as Xcode and tracks that independently. When installing with xcodes it installed with a suffixed name with the version number. The app store will continue to track the Xcode and not the Xcode-NN.N version. I think if you delete the original one and remove it, the warning might go away.