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These are my favorite two DENY rules on my PiHole blacklist:

(\.|^)apple\.com$

(\.|^)icloud\.com$

Also, set your Mac's `do not disturb` feature to turn on at 3:01AM, off at 3:00AM == no more notifications

You can then download OS updates directly from Apple's CDN via https://mrmacintosh.com/

This might work for you, but doing this to an untrained, unexpecting, or visiting Apple user on your LAN will make their Apple device experience 1,000x worse.

I run several PiHoles — for guests, DHCP issues the IP of the least-restrictive blacklist (which does allow Apple; just seven rules to block largest always-advertisers).

But also, I don't care about anybody's user experience on my home network, but my own =D

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