Sorry about that. We will definitely have a setting for disabling automatic start at login.

The quickest workaround right now, before we get to a fix, is to disable via macOS system preferences:

We do respect its settings.

Note that this should integrate with bug 283 wherein it prompts to install the command line tools, even if they're installed.

The problem is that if you quit out of ollama without doing that install, the next time it starts up it sets itself to open at startup again.

While the os-level setting is definitely respected once we undo it at the os level, I'm hoping to see this changed to an opt-in setting addressed through the application.

In my opinion, it's ok to ask me if I'd like the application to launch on system startup during the install process (checkbox should be off by default), then otherwise I expect to be able to find the setting in the application's preferences.

I find this to be common practice amongst the higher-quality macos applications I use, especially those with menubar-only presences like ollama.

In terms of examples, I find that most of the prodigious Sindre Sorhus' newer menubar apps to be good examples (Velja and Folder Peek, for example, which I assume use his LaunchAtLogin / LaunchAtLogin-Modern libraries to implement) and find almost every single aspect of CleanShot X to be the gold standard

Most importantly: thank all of you for ollama and all the work you continue to put into it

Sorry about that. We will definitely have a setting for disabling automatic start at login.

The quickest workaround right now, before we get to a fix, is to disable via macOS system preferences:

We do respect its settings.

Well, what about windows?

+1 for windows. Is there a windows service where we can change the startup options?

Pretty sure you can change your startup programs in Windows by opening up Task manager. Make sure to open up the advanced view, and there should be a tab for startup apps. (This should be true of old and new Task Manager)

I'll admit I run this through Docker though and don't have any issues with it opening on startup on Windows as a result, so I haven't been able to verify it's there.

It doesn't show on my PC, So is there any other way?

@mchiang0610 any plans to implement this soon?

I'm on Linux and ollama is also set to start on boot..

i'm on ubuntu and i'd also like to turn automatic start off

For Linux you can try sudo systemctl disable ollama. Let me know if this doesn't work.

@RockyHandsome8 and other Windows users: Ollama doesn't show up in the Task Manager's Startup apps.

To let Ollama not start at Windows startup...

1. go into the startup folder (press Windows + R -> type shell:startup -> click OK / press enter).
2. delete the shortcut to Ollama.
3. Be happy.

It's ridiculous that I have to manually delete the shortcut in the startup directory after every Ollama update. Is there no way for Ollama to respect this preference on Windows?

my PR above should fix the issue on macos but i don't understand why the electron app isn't also being used on windows and linux. the entire point of electron is to have one app that targets all platforms.

I'd appreciate if y'all would upvote and comment on this PR that adds a way toggle auto start behavior to speed up the merge process #7097

+1 for an option to make it not add itself to start-up on Windows after every update. Everywhere I look just suggests disabling it on start-up using task manager or deleting the shortcut, but these are just temporary solutions. I understand it adding itself to start-up when it's first installed, but surely there should be a special case for updates to an existing installation to prevent it from trying to add itself again?

Still automatically starting on macOS. Please fix this. I know how to disable it, but I shouldn't be forced to use time on this.

remove ollama from automatic startup!

+1 Please add an option in preferences to disable or enable autostart (in any OS).

+1 Very annoyed that this opened on startup without asking or any indication that it would do so.

On OS X, the app still re-adds itself as a log-in item each time we open it (same issue with running it from a terminal). This is the most problematic bug/feature of the app for me, discouraging its use. Thank you for the project, hope this can be fixed