iTunes update notifications? Dude...<p>Even if you couldn&#x27;t make the mental leap to just stop worrying about the updates and to rationally understand they aren&#x27;t literally constant, there are other media players or other operating systems that are far, far less annoying. OS X, iOS, Windows, and Android are <i>literally</i> designed to be annoying, to keep reminding you thry exist, to keep them in your mind, so you expect them to be an ever present part of your experience. Because they are all in service to something other than your needs for an operating system. This is exactly the sort of thing for which the Free Software Foundation exists.<p>But ultimately, the problem is not the notification, or the media player, or the operating system. They are 100% incapable of causing you any harm on their own. You have to choose to allow it to harm you.<p>By manage distractions, I mean do whatever it takes to stop harming yourself. To me, the lowest friction way of doing that is letting iTunes update so it will be quiet for another month, and then forgetting about it.