In the past, 48 hours Apple just announced the next version of Mac book’s operation system that is called by the name macOS Sierra at WWDC 2016. Now while installing macOS Sierra or El Capitan on VMware or VirtualBox then we don’t need to install that on separate disk because while editing the.
Now that has succeeded macOS High Sierra, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Apple’s mountain-themed OS is completely outdated. However, if you consider the fact that macOS Mojave has higher system requirements than macOS 10.13, there will be plenty of users that will be stuck on High Sierra for a while. Back when macOS High Sierra initially launched, it had its own fair share of problems, like password vulnerabilities. Apple eventually patched all of these problems out, and macOS High Sierra grew into one of the best versions of Apple’s seminal OS to date. Thanks to the new file system and built-in photo editing tools – Apple more than made up for any problems faced by macOS High Sierra upon release. At the end of the day, macOS High Sierra faced the same problem that Mountain Lion did when it followed Lion – it brought some interesting new features, but didn’t do anything all that new and exciting.
However, macOS Mojave, which immediately followed macOS High Sierra, remedies this. So, here’s all there is to know about macOS High Sierra. Cut to the chase.
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What is it? The 2017 edition of Apple’s Mac operating system, macOS. When is it out?
Available to install now. What will it cost? MacOS High Sierra is free to download macOS 10.13 High Sierra release date Apple revealed macOS 10.13 High Sierra at the WWDC 2017 keynote, which is no surprise, given Apple’s tradition of announcing the latest version of its Mac software at its annual developer event. Yet, it wasn’t until September 12 that Apple revealed that the full release of High Sierra would launch little more than a week later, on September 25.
There was a developer version of the operating system you could enroll in leading to the final release, but luckily that’s no longer required to take advantage of the latest features found in macOS 10.13. The final build of macOS High Sierra, 10.13.6 is available right now. Beside a few bug fixes, it integrates Airplay 2 into iTunes – though you will need to update iTunes to take advantage of it. You can download the update from the Mac App Store. More importantly, this update contains the bug fix that stops the. Safari 12 is also available for macOS High Sierra users, which not only supports website icons in your tabs, but also has better security.
Websites, for instance, won’t be able to track your specific Mac when using the native web browser. If you’re ready to jump to the next version of macOS, you can download macOS Mojave today. And, fortunately, we can show you. MacOS 10.13 High Sierra compatibility Luckily, because macOS High Sierra doesn’t really shake things up, the barrier to entry didn’t change.
In fact, macOS High Sierra has much more lenient requirements than Mojave, so it should be popular for a while. As long as you're on one of the following Mac models, you can upgrade to macOS High Sierra (if you haven’t done so already).
Late 2009 or newer. Late 2009 /MacBook (Retina) or newer. Mid-2010 or newer. Late 2010 or newer. Mid-2010 or newer. Mid-2010 or newer.
2017 Bear in mind that if you want to take advantage of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) benefits posed by macOS High Sierra, you’ll need a Mac donning – at the very least – an Intel sixth-generation Skylake processor. Unfortunately, that discounts everything released prior to 2015, but on the bright side, everything else macOS High Sierra brings to the table is fair game. MacOS 10.13 High Sierra features Beyond the Hackintosh users being reasonably worried about the newly enforced security checks on EFI firmware automatically implemented each week, Apple has revealed a number of awesome new features with macOS 10.13 High Sierra. These include improvements to Safari – which will now stop ad-tracking and auto-playing videos in their tracks – and a more expansive Spotlight Search in the Mail App.
Additionally, when you’re composing emails, the app now allows split view for the compose window – and, to make matters better, it uses up to 35% less disk space. The Photos app has also been updated, with a better sorting tool to boot. All of this is accompanied by a better layout, improved facial recognition thanks to neural networks, and improved syncing across all Apple devices – this all makes macOS High Sierra’s photo experience better than ever before.
Editing tools, too, have seen improvements, in turn making it easier than ever to enhance the quality of your photos without learning the ins and outs of Photoshop or Camera RAW. And of course, you can count on Instagram-like filters being a part of this. One of the biggest changes that comes with macOS High Sierra is with the file system.
It’s ditching the HFS – which Apple has used for around 30 years, and is now using the Apple File System (APFS) instead. Every Mac that has been upgraded to macOS High Sierra will receive these file system updates automatically with the exception of those sporting Fusion Drives and older HDDs. Similarly, all new Macs will ship pre-formatted for APFS. To be exact, APFS is a 64-bit file system that supports native encryption and faster metadata operation. This may all sound a bit techy, but the bottom line is that this will make your Mac feel a lot faster, while also being more secure and more transparent about the nature of your files and folder contents. Unfortunately, this comes with the caveat of Apple’s confirmation that 32-bit apps will be discontinued in later versions of macOS High Sierra. The update also brings HEVC, or H.265, video compression to the Mac.
Apple claims that this new standard can compress video files 40% more than the previous-generation H.264 standard. The end result will be faster video streams at higher resolutions – ahem, 4K – and smaller video files sizes when stored locally. VR finally comes to the Mac One of the biggest bits of news surrounding macOS High Sierra is that it will finally bring support for virtual reality headsets officially. Namely, the and Steam VR will work with Macs running the new OS this autumn. However to use such a device, you’ll need at least a 5K iMac or MacBook Pro – or, any Mac that can run the new OS with an external GPU solution.
Support for such devices comes part and parcel with macOS High Sierra, but won’t be an active function until later this year. The good news is that macOS High Sierra comes with a helping of refinements to its graphics API that make up for the scarce GPU support. Metal was a step forward for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, but with Metal 2, Apple promises less strain on the CPU as well as proper machine learning and better Xcode profiling/debugging in macOS High Sierra. Perhaps more important, though, is the fact that MoltenVK was recently brought to Mac by Khronos Group. An implementation of the open-source Vulkan API, it’s said to bring frame rate gains of up to 50% in Dota 2.
As it’s cross-platform, too – being supported by Windows and Linux as well as Apple’s devices – MoltenVK is likely to be more widely adopted by creators. Joe Osborne and Gabe Carey have also contributed to this report.
. We’re going to talk about installing a version of your Mac’s operating system (OS), known as “macOS” or “OS X,” on your Mac, older than the one you’re currently running, on a partition of your primary hard drive or on an external hard drive. You may find that your current instance of OS X is too unstable for normal day-to-day usage or more heavy-duty tasks like development. Remember all the problems people had when they upgraded to OS X 10.13, also known as “High Sierra?” Oy, vey. You might have been like “Get me the heck outta Dodge!” You wanted or needed to get back to a stable OS, like Sierra (OS X 10.12) or El Capitan (OS X 10.11).
For developers, you may have to install an older version of Xcode not supported by your latest OS. For Cocoa/macOS developers, you may need to make absolutely sure that your desktop apps are backward compatible, and the only way to do that for sure is to install and run your apps on older versions of macOS. I will show you, step by step, how to get a valid copy of an older version of macOS, make a bootable installer disk, and install the old OS.
Note to iOS developers As iOS developers, you’re probably mostly concentrated on using Xcode and perhaps a few supplementary Mac apps, like Safari, TextEdit, or Pages, to develop apps for iPhone (iOS), iPad (iOS), Apple Watch (watchOS), and Apple TV (tvOS). You probably heavily use Git, Xcode command-line tools, or development tools like CocoaPods. If you’ve been developing for more than even a year, then you know that Apple pushes out a new OS about once a year and also pushes out a new Xcode version once a year. It behooves you to know something about OS X. So while this tutorial is of course open to anyone who needs to roll back their OS, my core audience of iOS developers should give it a read and consider practicing developing some macOS apps.
There are millions of people out there with Macs. That’s a big potential target audience for whom you can build apps.
Obeying the rules I’m pretty sure that according to Apple’s rules, you can only run one version of OS X on one Mac at a time. Be sure to consult Apple’s End User License Agreement and its Terms and Conditions before proceeding. As we’ll see in a bit, they do allow you to download old versions of OS X that you previously purchased and/or downloaded through the Mac App Store using a valid Apple ID. Finding an old version of OS X Only you can decide which old version of OS X you want to install, but you can’t just grab any version from any time period and install it on any Mac. Hardware requirements You need to know if your Mac’s hardware is compatible with the old version of OS X you’ve chosen to install. Here’s a for OS X versions 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan), and 10.12 (Sierra). Here are for the latest OS X 10.13, High Sierra.
Finding and downloading an old macOS version You can only get old versions of OS X that you previously downloaded/installed on one of your Macs using your valid Apple ID. Go to the App Store app on your Mac and then select the Purchased tab. Look for the version you want — and one that’s in the list (obviously). Using my Apple ID and browsing my Purchased history, I’m going to get OS X Yosemite by clicking the DOWNLOAD link as show here: Click to enlarge You’ll get a warning that “A newer version of OS X is already installed on this computer. Are you sure you want to download OS X 10.10?” Click Continue as shown: Click to enlarge This will start the download of Install OS X Yosemite.app into your /Applications folder. This file is 5.72 GB, so expect the download to take awhile. Preparing to install the old macOS version If you double-click on Install OS X Yosemite.app, you’ll get the warning, “This copy of the ‘Install OS X’ application is too old to be opened on this version of OS X.” Here’s what you’ll see: Click to enlarge Never fear.
We can do this! Creating “a bootable installer for macOS” Apple has the answer to how we’ll make use of the installer ( OS X Yosemite.app) we downloaded. They have a page entitled What we’ll do is follow and “use an external drive or secondary partition as a startup disk from which to install the Mac operating system.” The best way to create a “startup disk” is to use a USB thumbnail drive with “at least 12GB of available storage.” Everything on your USB drive will be erased, so back it up if you need the files contained on it. In a nutshell, we’re going to use an Apple command, available only from Terminal, that will turn our USB stick into a bootable drive and copy that OS X installer we downloaded to the USB stick. When I got that USB stick with at least 12 GB of available space, I inserted it into an available USB port on my Mac. The stick was mounted in my OS X 10.13 file system as “/Volumes/Untitled” and showed up in Finder as “Untitled” as you see here: Click to enlarge Now that I had that USB stick mounted, it was time to continue with Apple’s advice.
I made the USB stick into a bootable drive containing all the OS X Yosemite installation files. I was able to copy the command I needed to do this straight off. Here’s their version of the command. Sudo / Applications / Install OS X Yosemite.app / Contents / Resources / createinstallmedia - volume / Volumes / Untitled - applicationpath / Applications / Install OS X Yosemite.app All those forward slashes are just indicators for the command-line interpreter that a space is being used. For example, Install OS X Yosemite.app in the /Applications folder becomes “/Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app”. I’m not going into all the dreary details.
If you’re interested in what the createinstallmedia command does, read. I opened a Terminal window and pasted my createinstallmedia command to the prompt and pressed the return key. You’ll get — WOW — animated textual feedback while createinstallmedia prepares your USB stick.
This first time I ran this command, I got an error re: the USB drive can’t be erased. I knew that meant that I had the drive open in Finder and/or Terminal, so I closed everything that could’ve possibly been holding onto file handles on the USB drive.
Deciding where to install the old macOS You can choose and configure the location (disk/partition) on which you want to install your old macOS version. This can be done from the installer on the USB drive.
It has features like Disk Utility built in to it. But I like to plan ahead. I started Disk Utility before using the USB stick to create a new partition on an external USB SSD for my new Yosemite instance to live, as you can see here: Click to enlarge I went crazy creative and named my new partition “Yosemite” 😉. You can also create partitions on your internal drive for installing your older version of macOS. Just be sure you have enough room.
Installing the old macOS version It’s time to install the old version of macOS. Make sure your bootable USB drive is inserted into an available USB slot and is mounted. If mounted, you’ll see it in Finder as I showed previously. Restart your Mac. When you hear the Apple “chime” sound, immediately hold down the option (⌥) key so that your Mac will bring up the Startup Manager. This feature shows you all your Mac’s bootable media. Remember all the business we went through to download Install OS X Yosemite.app and then used the createinstallmedia command?
Choose the bootable disk labelled “Install OS X Yosemite” by clicking on that drive icon once (which selects it). Once selected, the bootable drive has an arrow pointing to it. Click the arrow to boot into Install OS X Yosemite as you can see immediately below: Click to enlarge. Your Mac will think for a little bit: Click to enlarge. Install OS X Yosemite.app will start up.
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Notice there are several choices you can make and several menus. These are various utilities you can use when troubleshooting an install: Click to enlarge. From the dialog box in the middle of the screen, choose Install OS X and the click Continue: Click to enlarge.
And now, for something completely different you’ll get the Yosemite installer’s splash screen. Click the Continue button: Click to enlarge.
Agree to and then agree to the license: Click to enlarge. Choose the partition on which you want to install Yosemite. Remember I set up a partition on an external drive named “Yosemite.” Click the partition you want and then click Install: Click to enlarge. The installation process will start so be patient: Click to enlarge. NOTE: If you see the previous screen hang at “About a second remaining,” don’t panic.
The installer probably didn’t estimate the length of time for the install perfectly. Be patient and wait. Only force a restart if you get into a situation in which you’re waiting for hours.
Your Mac will automatically restart and keep thinking: Click to enlarge. This Yosemite installer progress screen will appear and chunk through more of your installation: Click to enlarge. Remember that I mentioned installer utilities above? If you run into problems, not only can you use those utilities, but you can look at the output from the installer itself. You may find messages in the logs that help you resolve an installation problem. You can look at the logs by going to the Window - Log menu or by hitting the ⌘ + L key combination.
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