Im Running Postman on a Mac. i go through cycles of “Postman is trying to install a Helper Tool” and it requests my credentials. Ive added my credentials and updated Postman, only to have the same thing pop up a couple days later. Once it appears I might get the same request 5+ times in a single da…

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Hey @mjryan1234 :waving_hand: Welcome to the Postman Community! :postman: I believe this is related to the install location of Postman on your machine - It’s likely showing this each time there is a new version update. I will need to reach out to the dev team and get a better answer for this thou…

This is happening practically every day for me

User’s are not admin in my environment. The ability to manage updates (ie. set to never check) through MDM / DDM (ie. managed preferences) would be a great outcome.

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danny-dainton (Danny Dainton) June 6, 2025, 10:24am 4

Hey folks

Could you see if this solves the issue for you, please?

How do I disable "Helper" pop up?

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Helper Tool Install - requests

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