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Safari 12 is now available for macOS Sierra and High Sierra

Comes with macOS Mojave by default

Safari 12, the latest version of Apple ’s web browser, is now available to download for people running macOS Sierra (10.12.6) and macOS High Sierra (10.13.6).

This new version of the browser, which is the default browser in the upcoming macOS Mojave (10.14) update, comes with a range of new features, and if you can’t wait until Mojave launches on September 24 you can get the updated browser for the older versions of macOS.

In fact, if you use Safari as your daily web browser then it’s a good idea to update to Safari 12 as soon as possible, as it includes security updates. To download and install Safari 12 right now, open up the Mac App Store, click on ‘Updates’ and you’ll see the Safari 12 update waiting for you there.

Safari 12 features

So, what’s new in Safari 12? Apple has included support for website icons in tabs, which makes it easier to organize and find open websites when you’re browsing with multiple tabs open, as well as password suggestions and an alert if you're using a password for a service that Safari has saved for another site.

This should encourage people to use different passwords for different websites, rather than using one password for many.

Users also have better control over how pop-up windows are handled on websites, and ad retargeting suppression has been bolstered so that it reduces advertisers' ability to identify unique Mac devices. The web browser also disables any extensions that cause it to perform more slowly by default.

So, even if you're planning on upgrading to macOS Mojave next week with Safari 12, we’d recommend installing it on your Mac as soon as possible, so that you can access these new features and benefit from the added security.

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Troubleshooting, safari 12 released for macos sierra & high sierra.

Apple has released Safari 12 for Mac users running macOS High Sierra and macOS Sierra.

The same Safari 12 web browser ships bundled with macOS Mojave by default, so macOS Mojave users will not find the same software update available to any computer running Mojave.

Safari 12 brings a variety of new features and changes to the Safari web browser, including support for website icons in tabs, password suggestions and an alert if you’re reusing saved passwords in Safari, support for toggling pop-up behavior on websites, ad retargeting suppression, improved security features, and Safari now defaults to disabling any extensions that could negatively impact web browsing performance.

If you’re on macOS Sierra (10.12.6) or macOS High Sierra (10.13.6) then you will find Safari 12.0 available to download now from the Mac App Store Updates tab, accessible from the  Apple menu.

If you use Safari as your default web browser , or even as a backup or alternative web browser on your Mac, you should likely update to the latest version available to you.

The next major version of Mac system software, MacOS Mojave (10.14), is set to be released to the general public on September 24, and MacOS Mojave includes Safari 12.0 as part of the broader system software update. Thus if you plan on immediately updating to macOS Mojave, you may find it less urgent to update the Safari web browser in Sierra or High Sierra since you’ll be updating system software soon anyway. For the rest of Mac users or anyone who plans on delaying the Mojave update, updating to Safari 12 is recommended.

Many other software updates are available in the Apple ecosystem as well, including iOS 12 , WatchOS 5, tvOS 12 , and many updates to various apps like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, as well as tons of third party apps. Over the next few weeks, it’s a good idea to periodically check for any software updates for both these new system software versions and for updates to the apps you use and rely on.

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if you right click the webloc file you can choose open with… which does not crash the finder.

Don’t you mean “Terminal Command: qlmanage -r”? I think it should be qlmanage, not qlmaange

Great catch, yep!.

SOLUTION ——– -currently working for OS X 10.12.6 -Finder doesn’t crash when .weblock is clicked. -Safari is able to launch the url. -However, Quicklook views .weblocs as plain text files, bypassing the web preview generation.

Overview ——–

Step 1 File: /System/Library/QuickLook/Web.qlgenerator/Contents.info.plist Remove: com.apple.weblocation

Step 2 File: /System/Library/QuickLook/Text.qlgenerator/Contents.info.plist Add: com.apple.internet-location Location:

QLGenerator LSItemContentTypes

public.data com.apple.internet-location

Step 3 Copy File: /System/Library/QuickLook/Text.qlgenerator Move Copy:/Library/QuickLook/Text.qlgenerator

Step 4 Terminal Command: qlmaange -r

Basic instructions for editing the types of files: ————————————————– ex.Step 1

Locate File: /System/Library/QuickLook/Web.qlgenerator/ -Right Click and select “Show Package Contents”

Copy File to desktop: /System/Library/QuickLook/Web.qlgenerator/Contents.info.plist …Enter PW to allow changes Duplicate File on desktop & rename: original.Contents.info.plist -Edit desktop/Contents.info.plist Remove: com.apple.weblocation

– Save, move both files to replace original File: /System/Library/QuickLook/Web.qlgenerator/Contents.info.plist …Enter PW to allow changes

PLEASE NOTE: Step 4 Terminal Command: qlmaange -r SHOULD BE: qlmanage -r

I update to Safari 12 on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 ! Not run old Safari 11 files .webloc on Safari 12 and if you want rename it on Finder crash and the window collapse !! Spotlight crash if you don’t disable Find in Bookmarks and History Problems with Extensions … I go back to Safari 11.1.2 (disable SIP with Terminal (csrutil disable) on Recovery OS mode … and reinstall Safari 11.1.2 Sierra.pkg)

There are random pages where the content isn’t loading? or it’s showing only as white blocks. So now using other browsers until this gets sorted.

Can you give an example where that happens? I have not seen that issue with Safari 12 of blank pages. Try clearing out all of your Safari caches/settings and start over?

Since updated to Safari 12, it stop working and each time i try to open it, my whole mac starts to work as slow as a nail

Since this was updated, my Safari 12 has not been working. Initially my browser bar was gone (which it still is), and now when I click on any of my favorites, I get a blank page. Nothing loads.

Disabling unsigned extensions is obnoxious. Was that really a problem?

I’m not positive, but I really feel like Safari 12 has negatively impacted my battery life. I’ve made no other changes in my computer at all since updating, and I’ve just been noticing my battery level dropping quicker doing the same tasks I always do. I can’t see anyone else talking about this, so maybe it’s just me.

Having same problem as FarmerBob. In column view, clicking on a Safari/.webloc icon crashes Finder instantly.

Hitting get info on a Safari/.webloc icon shows that “open with” is Paparazzi. It’s greyed out so you can’t change it.

Not great solutions: Delete Paparazzi (or whichever app may be culprit) Disable preview column (View > Show View Options)

BAD UPDATE! Since updating to this version, if I select a .webloc file in a window where the Finder would have to make a preview, the Finder crashes every time.

The same thing happens to me ! I tried deleting the associated quicklook preference files, but it didn’t help.

I have this problem, too. I had some success by changing file suffix from .webloc to .url.

1) Control-click on the webloc file, or group of files.

2) Select “Rename” from the fly-out menu.

3) Use the curser to highlight “webloc” suffix and type “url” (without quotes).

4) When you do this, a pop-up message appears asking, “Are you sure you want to change the extension from “.webloc” to “.url”?” If you make this change, your document may open in a different application. To proceed, click on the “Use .url” button on the bottom right of the pop-up.

While not a great solution, it should stop the finder crash/relaunch.

Btw, there is a free application called “Webloc Finagler” that will do this webloc/url conversion for you via drag and drop—I stumbled upon the app in the apple discussion board. All credit goes to developer Mark Douma.

Apple Discussion link: https://discussions.apple.com/message/11978417#message11978417

Direct link to the app (110kb): http://www.markdouma.com/developer/WeblocFinagler.zip

Playing a game full screen, I get repeated errors saying it looks like you are trying to type a text which is not supported in full screen. Exit full screen or stay. That’s fine for the first time, but repeated over and over every two seconds is disruptive. I’m not typing anything ! Just using my finger to move items as designed.

Chrome. Here I come. Grrrrrrrr

After the update my adblock plus stopped to work, so I have to disabled it and install adblock. Works fine again. It says you web browser may run slow with adblock, but I prefer a bit slow that load tons of ads.

Do NOT do this update, many sites I go to regularly do NOT work under it.

What problems are you having with Safari 12? What kind of errors?

Now my search engine DDG, lost its ad blocker too. I’m not a techi, but this ticks me off. Now I have pop ups. That stinks.

Yeah! But how to remove Safari 12 and back to for example 11.1.2? Because you know… java plugins and stuff :)

What he said. How do you go back to Safari 11?

double ditto!

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This database will contain download links for macOS Safari full Installer pkg files (Safari16.0MontereyAuto.pkg example). This file is the same full installer that you would download directly from software update for Intel and Apple Silicon M1 Mac Computers. The “SafarixxxxAuto.pkg” is stored on Apple’s servers and is a standalone installer package. Once downloaded, all you need to do is install the pkg and Safari will be updated. You can use this pkg to reinstall Safari if you are having issues. Make sure that you download the correct version of Safari for your OS. For macOS Ventura, Safari is included in all updates.

NOTE #1 : I strongly recommend using the Software Update pane or softwareupdate binary to update Safari. Use the stand alone pkg as a last resort before reinstalling macOS.

NOTE #2: You can not use a previous Safari stand alone package to downgrade to a previous version of Safari.

NOTE#3: Apple usually only keeps 2 versions of Safari in the software update catalog. The current version and one behind. When a new version is released, the 3rd download link is removed.

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Apple File System (APFS)

APFS is a new, advanced storage architecture providing an extensible foundation to support new features and future storage technologies on the Mac.
APFS brings support for the latest high-capacity storage devices and delivers enhanced performance, security and reliability.
With APFS, common operations such as copying files and directories are nearly instantaneous.
Data is protected from power outages and system crashes thanks to advanced data integrity features.
APFS currently supports every Mac with all‑flash internal storage — support for Fusion and HDD Mac systems will be available in a future update.

High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Support

HEVC (H.265) is a new industry standard that enables extremely efficient compression, streaming and playback of video.
HEVC enables users to watch 4K video files at full quality, while requiring 40 percent less storage space than the current H.264 standard. 1
With HEVC, Apple is enabling high-quality 4K video streaming on networks where only HD streaming was previously possible. 2
Hardware acceleration on the new iMac and MacBook Pro delivers incredibly fast and power-efficient HEVC encoding and playback.
Developers like Adobe, Blackmagic Design, GoPro and more are joining Apple in adopting HEVC.

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Metal 2 features a refined API and improved performance that’s helping developers, including Unity, Epic, Valve, Pixelmator and more, accelerate their future apps.
With the combination of Thunderbolt 3 and Metal 2, the most demanding Mac users can now access powerful external GPUs.
With Core ML, Apple brings the power of machine learning to all Apple developers, enabling the creation of entirely new kinds of apps.
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New technologies at the heart of the system make your Mac more reliable, capable, and responsive — and lay the foundation for future innovations. macOS High Sierra also refines the features and apps you use every day. It’s macOS at its highest level yet. Easily organize, edit and view your photos in Photos. • Make short videos from your Live Photos using new Loop and Bounce effects. • Easily locate and organize your content with the new sidebar. • Conveniently access all of your editing tools in the redesigned Edit View. • Fine-tune color and contrast in your photos with new Curves and Selective Color tools. • Access third-party apps directly from Photos and save the edited images back to your Photos library. • Rediscover images from your library with new Memories themes including pets, weddings, outdoor activities, and more. • Create printed photo products and more using new third-party project extensions. Improve your browsing experience with Safari. • Stop web video with audio from playing automatically. • Prevent websites and ad networks from tracking your browsing with Intelligent Tracking Prevention. • Customize your browsing experience with new per-site settings for Reader, page zoom, content blockers, and more. Enjoy refinements in Mail. • Instantly find the messages most relevant to your search using Top Hits. • Use Split View when composing new email in full screen. • Save space on your Mac with compressed messages. Look up flight information in Spotlight. • Check the status of a flight by typing the airline and flight number in the Spotlight search field. Collect your thoughts with Notes. • Organize your information using configurable tables. • Pin your favorite notes so they’re always at the top of the list. Capture a moment in FaceTime. • Take a Live Photo during a video call to any supported Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Get music suggestions from a more natural-sounding Siri. • Hear more variations in intonation, emphasis, and tempo when Siri responds to you. • Enjoy personalized music recommendations from Siri when you listen to Apple Music. Copy and paste files from one Mac to another with Universal Clipboard. • Copy and paste files between your Macs using standard copy and paste commands. Safely store your family data in iCloud. • Share a single iCloud storage plan with your family and keep everyone’s data backed up and safely stored. • Set up your family with a few clicks and add capabilities when needed. Work together with iCloud Drive. • Share and work on any file in iCloud Drive with other people so it is always up to date with the latest edits. Upgrade the performance, reliability, and security of your Mac with the new Apple File System. • Update to a new file system architecture designed for all-flash Macs. • Experience greater responsiveness when performing common tasks like duplicating a file and finding the size of a folder. • Enjoy faster and more reliable backups. • Protect your entire drive with built-in native encryption for greater security. Step up to the new standard for 4K video: HEVC. • Create and watch high-resolution video with High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), which uses up to 40 percent less space without sacrificing quality. Enjoy next-generation graphics and computation with Metal 2. • Get the most out of the graphics capabilities of your Mac with the new and improved version of Metal. • Discover immersive tools for content creation with support for virtual reality. • Build state-of-the-art apps with features that accelerate common machine learning functions. Some features may not be available in all regions or all languages. Some features require an iCloud storage plan. Some features have hardware requirements. Apple File System requires all-flash internal storage.

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The macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 update adds AirPlay 2 multi-room audio support for iTunes and improves the stability and security of your Mac. AirPlay 2 for iTunes •Control your home audio system and AirPlay 2-enabled speakers throughout your house •Play music at the same time on multiple AirPlay 2-enabled speakers in your house, all in sync Other improvements and fixes •Fixes an issue that may prevent Photos from recognizing AVCHD media from some cameras •Fixes an issue that may prevent Mail users from moving a message from Gmail to another account

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How to Download and Install macOS High Sierra

Apple released the latest edition of macOS, version 10.13 High Sierra , so it's time to prepare your Mac for the update. High Sierra may be a relatively subtle update, performing a lot of changes to the background that will increase stability, but it also provides new privacy features in Safari and makes Photos a more easily browsable app.

MORE: macOS High Sierra Review: A Deceptively Big Update

First, make sure your Mac is on this list of supported machines:

MacBook (Late 2009 and later)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 and later)
MacBook Air (Late 2010 and later)

Next, check that the software you rely upon is supported by visiting the website of any company that makes your mission-critical apps. This is a big deal for antivirus software and system-backup utilities, as they operate differently, and might conflict with the new Apple File System (APFS).

Now, back up your system to another location. There is nothing inherently risky about High Sierra, but we make a habit of backing up our personal systems before performing major updates.

Once your system is cleared to be updated, make sure you have an hour of time where you won't need it, as installing High Sierra on a brand-new 15-inch MacBook Pro took around 40 minutes, and might take more for a system with more applications and files.

Now that you're ready, here's how to update to macOS 10.13 High Sierra.

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1. Click the Apple icon in the top left corner.

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Apple has released the latest version of its Safari browser for macOS Catalina and High Sierra, ahead of the release of Big Sur later this year. Safari 14 improves the browser’s tabs, adds a new privacy report feature, and offers new customization options for your start page. You can download it by heading to System Preferences app and clicking “Software Update.”

One of the key improvements that’s coming with the latest version of Safari is improved tab management . The tabs themselves have been redesigned to be more space-efficient, display website favicons by default, and show a preview of each tab while hovering your mouse over them. There’s a new start page which you can customize with your own backgrounds and links, and a Privacy Report that highlights any cross-site trackers that the browser is blocking. Oh, and this version of the browser also removes support for Adobe Flash.

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Some new Safari features will require macOS Big Sur to run, and aren’t available if you’re updating Safari on an older version of the operating system, 9to5Mac reports . These include support for 4K HDR video, and the browser’s built-in translation feature.

Yesterday saw the release of a swathe of Apple operating system updates , including iOS 14 for iPhones, iPadOS 14 for iPads, tvOS 14 for the Apple TV, and watchOS 7 for Apple Watches. You’ve still got a little longer to wait to update your Mac, but at least you can grab the new browser now.

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How to install macOS High Sierra

Apple has released macOS High Sierra, which offers new features such as Apple File System, new features in the Photos app, improved video playback, and more. You can get these new features—and the entire operating system—for free.

Before you install High Sierra, you should back up your Mac. Run Time Machine or your online backup service if you have one. You can also read our review of High Sierra to learn more about the features and read our High Sierra FAQ to prep your Mac. Set aside some time to run the installer, at least an hour, depending on your internet connection speed. Once you’re ready, follow the instructions below.

Launch the App Store app, located in your Applications folder.
Look for macOS High Sierra in the App Store. Here is a link . You can also do a search, but you’ll probably find it in the top marquee carousel or somewhere in the Features section of the store. Click on it once you find it.

Read the software license agreement and click Agree.
Select your Mac’s startup drive and click Install.
You must enter the username and password for the new “helper tool” that the installer wants to install. Enter this information and click Add Helper.

If you have other applications open, the installer will ask to close those apps. Click Close Applications.
Your Mac will restart and proceed with the installation. When it’s done, you’ll have High Sierra on your Mac.

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macOS High Sierra review: A radical new foundation for your Mac

macOS Sierra — 10.13 if you're keeping count — is named after the soaring elevations of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. It's part of a series of Mac operating systems Apple has been rolling out over the last few years. It started with Yosemite, after the National Park. Then zoomed in for El Capitan, out again for Sierra, and now up, way up, for High Sierra.

But High Sierra isn't about radical new heights. It's about radical new foundations. High Sierra combines new technologies with a new level of refinement. Not in design — that's stayed fairly consistent — but in usability. It harkens back OS X Snow Leopard, which was marketed as having "no new features". And smartly so. Grand Central Dispatch and Exchange support aside, it put the public's attention where Apple's had been: On making substantial improvements under-the-hood in order to deliver substantive improvements to the overall Mac experience.

So too, High Sierra.

There are new features in High Sierra too, of course, including support for virtual reality (VR) and significant additions to the Photos app, but the improvements to the foundation are even more impressive.

Cynics (who believe the Mac cup is half empty) will no doubt play High Sierra off as a side-benefit of what Apple's doing with iOS for iPhone and iPad. Optimists (with Mac cups half-full) will realize that's a false dichotomy. iOS was born of macOS and Apple has been sharing advances between them for years now. Most recently, the software teams have been better positioned to provide a more integrated, more unified infrastructure for both. And the advantages of that approach are wicked obvious. Not just for the teams, the operating systems, and the apps, but for us, the users.

Look no further than Apple File System, the biggest improvement in this release, if not this decade. Introduced over a year ago, already successfully rolled out to hundreds of millions of people through iOS 10.3, with High Sierra it comes fully to the Mac.

And that doesn't happen without shared talent and a unified focus. It's part of what makes High Sierra more than just a modifier shoved in front of last year's brand. It's what makes it part of what's next.

How to download and install macOS High Sierra on your Mac

macOS Sierra Evolution

macOS High Sierra is the thirteenth version of Apple's laptop and desktop operating system since the company acquired its foundations from NeXT. That's a lot of years and a lot of features. Here's a quick look back:

For more on past version and their features, please see my previous reviews:

macOS 12 Sierra
OS X 10.11 El Capitan review
OS X 10.10 Yosemite review
OS X 10.9 Mavericks review

macOS High Sierra Compatibility

You can download and install macOS Sierra , for free, on a range of hardware going back to late 2009. Basically, if your Mac is currently running Sierra, it can run High Sierra.

iMac (Late 2009 & later)
MacBook Air (2010 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2009 or newer)
Mac mini (2010 or newer)
MacBook Pro (2010 or newer)
Mac Pro (2010 or newer)

Some features, like HEVC encoding and decoding, require more recent models and processors.

macOS High Sierra Apple File System

APFS , the Apple File System was designed to replace the venerable HFS+ across all of Apple's devices. Though Apple had done an admirable job McGyver'ing HFS+ over the years, bubble gum and paper clips could take the Mac no further. So, it was time for something new. Something that was born for modern storage on state-of-the-art devices, and that could meet the needs not just of now, but of the near future as well.

For more on the technical aspects of Apple File System, and how it's implemented on iOS, see my APFS primer . What Apple's doing specifically for macOS deserves a closer look.

HFS+ never understood full-disk encryption. So, FileVault used Disk Images and FileVault 2 relied on Core Storage. That limited the available features. APFS includes native support for encryption so Apple can offer it directly and in a way that allows for new features to be added over time.

There are differences in opinion about whether or not you should encrypt your home computer. Security experts believe fiercely in encryption, especially for work computers and laptops, and failing secure so, in the event of theft, no one can get your data. Backup experts believe encryption isn't always practical, especially for home computers and desktops, because theft is less likely than corruption, and failing safe means you may be able to recover irreplaceable photos and documents.

I believe in encrypting main drives and, for large personal photo and video albums, backing them up locally and to the cloud. That way, hopefully, data is safe from both theft and corruption.

And APFS makes all of that easier and better. Sapshots, for example, capture the state of the storage at a moment in time, without risking changes or collisions like HFS. For example, where HFS+ support for mobile Time Machine backups was buggy, APFS re-implements it completely on snapshots. Which also uses less storage and performs less I/O — it can do differentials at the block level — resulting in better performance.

Since my main Mac is mobile, and I own a Time Capsule, I'm really happy about this as well.

In HFS+, sparse files took up more space and required more time to read and write to than it should have. APFS, which should come as no surprise at this point, supports it natively. No problem, no wasted space or time. Some basic actions are also wicked fast. Because of cloning, APFS doesn't have to produce duplicate data when copying files. It can copy the metadata and and point back to the original. That takes almost no time and uses only a tiny amount of space. As changes accrue, it can record the differentials, making the process as efficient as possible.

The mental hurdle you have to clear, of course, is that if you make five copies of a big video, you save tremendous space… but if you then try to recover space by deleting those 4 extra copies (really clones) you won't recover much space at all. At least unless and until you delete the original, which you might not want to do. Trippy, right?

Apple does some smart interface and reporting work, including fast directory sizing, command line directory size tracking, and not hooking some of it up to the Finder, all to help make it file system magic more human understandable. For the most part it works. The rest is just coming to terms with the new normal.

If you use multiple partitions, which is something I used to do a lot but haven't in a while, APFS lets those partitions dynamically resize. Partition size used to be a huge pain when I rocked virtual machines galore, so past me appreciations this even if current me is long past rehab. The dynamic resizing does come at the expense of absolutely knowing the real size at any given point in time, but I'm a fan of abstracting away as much of the old comp sci cruft as we can from the computing process anyway. For most people, it's better.

Since macOS still fully supports HFS+ volumes, old and new, there's no reason to convert external drives if you don't have to — and it won't do it automatically. I left my old HDD externals on HFS+, though I did update my new SSD external to APFS. It means no one else in my circle of family and friends can use it until High Sierra goes into wide release, but such are the sacrifices of the preview process. And it works just fine.

For Macs with solid state drives, which includes all modern MacBooks, MacBooks Air, MacBooks Pro, and Macs Pro, installing High Sierra will automatically convert them to APFS. The process seems to be working extremely well now but, if you have any concerns whatsoever, make a backup. (During the beta there was a checkbox, on by default, for the conversion — that's gone in the release version.)

For Macs with Fusion Drives, High Sierra will neither offer nor allow any conversions to APFS right now. You could manually trigger the conversion in beta but Apple now recommends you roll back to HFS+ until APFS support returns in a future update. It's a complete pain in the apps but better safe than sorry.

When APFS does come to Fusion Drives, it should make a difference. Apple currently uses Core Storage as middleware to fool HFS+ into handling fused storage, but it only works at the block level and doesn't understand files or the exact kind of changes being made to them. APFS does. It can make better, more intelligent decisions about what kind of data goes where. For example, it can make sure metadata is always on the SSD so random access is always faster.

I've been using a fusion drive on a 2015 iMac and… it's not my favorite. Once you get used to SSD like on MacBooks and MacBooks Pro, it's hard to go back, even to fusion. So, every time the platters spin up, so do my nerves. I don't think APFS can fix my core concerns with Fusion, but I do hope it can take the edge off. Even if only slightly.

Even on solid state only, APFS has been working great. I've converted several systems over without any issues. In daily use, I can't say I've noticed tremendous differences yet. But that's the point. Converting however many hundreds of millions of iOS devices and, now, however many tens of millions of Macs, without issue, and with a file system ready for the next decade?

That requires an incredible amount of chutzpah and hard work. And damn if Apple didn't pull it off.

macOS High Sierra HEVC (H.265) and HEIF

Once upon a time, we had H.264. We liked it. It was fast and it was good. It let us download and stream our 720p and 1080p video in seconds and minutes instead of minutes and hours. But now our video has grown four times bigger with 4K (2160p) and gotten deeper with high-dynamic range (HDR). For that, H.264 was no longer so fast or so good.

While Apple has announced iTunes 4K HDR content for the new Apple TV 4K , no similar announcement has yet been made for the iMac 4K or iMac 5K. It's possible Apple is still in negotiations with the notoriously paranoid and DRM-crazed Hollywood over Mac licensing. Hopefully, we'll hear more about later in the year.

HDR is technically separate from 4K, so it's possible we'll get the better color gamut and gamma regardless of the resolution.

So, the consortium of licensors (feel free to think of more colorful names to call them) have given us H.265, which they went to all the trouble of re-branding the even less-enjoyable-to-say high efficiency video codec: HEVC. Gesundheit.

The efficiency in the name works out to about 40% over H.264, typically at the expense of longer encode times up front. (Very little in life, and nothing in video, is free.)

With macOS Sierra, Apple is building in support for both HEVC encode and decode. On a Skylake Mac (late 2015 and 2016), you get the 8-bit Main profile which handles 4K. On a Kaby Lake Mac (mid 2017), you get the 10-bit Main 10 profile, which handles 4K HDR.

The hardware is what takes care of the acceleration. macOS is what takes care of the smarts. It turns the greater amount of knobs available in HEVC to provide as high a quality with as high a performance as possible. That frees up the main processor for other tasks, improving the overall feeling of speed and responsiveness.

Of course, there's currently very little content available yet for HEVC. Even the big media players, like Amazon and Netflix, are barely trickling out support for it, and not at all on the Mac.

Likewise, while Apple has announced iTunes 4K HDR for the new Apple TV 4K , it's not yet available on the Mac. Given Hollywood's horrible track record when it comes to DRM demands — which never stop pirates but always interfere with legitimate customers — it's going to be a tough needle to thread.

So, right now, HEVC support will appeal mostly to video professionals and transcoders.

High-efficiency image format, or HEIF, is the photo version of HEVC. Nightwing to its Batman. it offers 2x better compression than trusty old JPG and what's more — it stores multiple assets in the same container.

For example, let's say you take a Portrait Mode or Live photo on your iPhone Plus running iOS 11. Where previously the depth data for Portrait Mode or the still and motion elements of a Live Photo were stored separately, HEIF bundles them all together. (HDR data, which is taken from multiple exposures, starts being processed at the ISP-level in the chipset, so that's burned in before it can be bundled into HEIF.)

macOS devices don't take Portrait Mode or Live Photos yet but they can edit them. And that's where the advantage of HEIF come into play. Filters, for example, can now apply different effects based on the depth or motion data.

It's also going to be important as we continue our march towards things like Portrait Mode, Portrait Lighting, and the computational photography that'll go well beyond lenses in the future.

Some of this does come at the cost of compatibility with older systems. macOS can and will share H.264 and JPG versions of your videos and photos to people running devices without HEVC or HEIF support, for example, using AirDrop or Mail.

If you simply grab the raw files and copy them around, sneaker-net style, older apps might not know what to do with them. Early adopter be warned.

Likewise, some apps like Adobe Photoshop don't yet support HEIF. You'd think Adobe would make it a point-of-pride to have HEIF added early on in the beta cycle, if not well in time for release. Sadly, not. Hopefully, Apple's implementation will help drive HEIF support across the industry. And soon.

macOS High Sierra Metal 2, Core ML, and Virtual Reality

When Apple introduced Metal, a new graphics framework that sidestepped the depthy cruft of OpenGL and let developers write much, much closer to the… metal, the company claimed a 10x improvement to draw calls. With Metal 2, the company is claiming a 10x improvement over the original, for a total of 100x over GL. That's ballsy to say the least.

Apple really wants to deliver on the promise of technologies like Core ML, its new, high-level common format for machine learning models, and the lower-level computer vision kernels for image processing, linear algebra, convolutional neural networks, and algorithms behind it.

To do that, it has to make it easier to get the CPU out of the way and tap into the computational power of modern graphics processors. I can't even pretend to understand all this, but the way that it's been explained-to-me-like-I'm-a-three-year-old by much smarter friends and colleagues is that it's offering new commands that allow more to be submitted and referenced in advance, it no longer needs to reset so it can copy less data and send fewer commands, and all of that reduces overhead and increases performance. Woof.

Also, where the original Metal varied in some areas between Apple's platforms, Metal 2 is unified. There are still a few differences because Apple's devices remain different, but there's now feature parity wherever possible, which means code can be shared more easily whenever possible.

The macOS windowing server in High Sierra is implemented on top of Metal 2, so everything on screen from draws to compositing to animation to scrolling is smoother. (I didn't say "buttery smooth" so you can't drink!)

Of course, all that buttery smooth (d'oh!) new windowing isn't helped by the lack of advancement in features like Split View. I use it all the time on the 12-inch MacBook, same as I do on the iPad, but while the iOS version started better and has become much, much better, the macOS version has been left in the same frustrating state as it was at launch — with no ability to change the apps in an existing Split View, only to destroy it and start over. Maybe 10.14?

Speaking of being bummed, I know some people are still grumpy that Apple is using an Apple-specific framework for all this new graphical goodness, and not something standards-based like OpenGL was, and that's fair enough. Sometimes Apple chooses to control its own destiny and sometimes that lets Apple move faster, more efficiently, and more specifically than standards-based process or cross-platform technology would allow.

Famously, Apple's lack of investment in Mac graphics hurt the platform when it came to virtual reality (VR). When Oculus first announced the Rift, I bought one. Because of course I did. Then, when I found out it wouldn't work on the Mac, I lent it to a friend so she could have fun with it on her PC gaming rig. I'm not PC angry, but I didn't want to have to set up and maintain another computer system just to enjoy the occasional VR experience.

The whole time, though, I hoped — and complained about the lack of support — for VR on the Mac. High Sierra is beginning to answer those hopes — and shut up those complaints.

On the hardware side, the latest iMacs finally have enough graphics muscle to support VR and — currently in developer beta but going into general release in the spring of 2018 — external graphics processors (eGPU) will open up that support to the MacBook Pro as well. (macOS has never had to account for GPUs that could appear or disappear before, so all of that is being accounted for in High Sierra, including detection, notification, and loss handling.)

That requires a hefty helping hand on the software side too, which again brings us back to Metal 2.

For VR, Apple is doing everything possible to provide for extremely low latency and solid, high frame-rates between the Mac and head-mounted displays like the HTC Vive. As soon a s VR display is connected, macOS High Sierra will detect it and get as much of the rest of the software stack out of the way as possible. Then, an optimized rendering path takes over.

There are also new performance tools for developers building VR applications, including system trace for VR timelines and per-eye visualization in the debugger. Much of that is as over-my-head as Metal, but it excites the VR nerds I've spoken with and that excites me.

What's not as clear yet is how much support there'll be for native VR gaming on the Mac. Steam is on board, and to quote my colleague, Russell Holly of VRHeads.com, it looks like both they and Apple are doing everything right. So, fingers crossed. Worst case, there's always Boot Camp, but I'd prefer not having to maintain that environment if I don't have to either.

Regardless, I'll be testing the eGPU and the iMac on VR over the summer, so stay tuned for more.

macOS High Sierra Photos

I have a love-hate relationship with Photos for macOS. I love how integrated it is with Photos for iOS, and how well it excels at basic photo and video management and editing. But I miss being able to drag-and-drop into several of the non-Apple apps I use, and I really miss being able to right-click and open in Photoshop or another external editor, which I did near-constantly in Aperture.

At the same time, just as it delivers the top-most features on my wish list, High Sierra trolls me by improving its own editing enough that I now don't need an external editor anywhere nearly as often. That includes new tools like curves and selective color. Best of all, they're auto-magic enough that you don't have to be a Photoshop wizard to use them.

For example, you can choose selective color to take a photo of your red iPhone sitting on green leaves, pull all the saturation from the green, and then push the red towards purple. And boom, whole new photo.

It's so quick and easy that, back in June, for the first time ever, I moved a photo from Photoshop to Photos to finish it. Yeah, I was surprised too!

A lot of this is also available in Photos for iOS 11 — unified foundations have their advantages! — and when it comes to quick editing to post on Instagram or other social networks, I prefer doing it on iPhone. iPad is also a joy to edit on. For big batches of images, I still prefer the Mac, so these new tools being available here as well are great.

The same filters are available here as on iOS as well, including the ones that use the Portrait Mode depth data to render effects. Speaking of which, you can toggle Portrait Mode on and off using the "Depth" button at the bottom of the photo in Edit mode.

One word of caution: If you try to edit an iPhone 8 or iPhone X Portrait Lighting photo, and toggle depth off and back on, you'll lose the lighting effect, at least in the current version. To get it back, you'll have to re-edit on your iPhone 8 or iPhone X.

Photos for macOS also lets you add and edit the new Live Photo effects, Loop, Bounce, and Long exposure. They're fun and I'm sure I'll end up using them more on iPhone and for Instagram, but sometimes I'm at my Mac when inspiration strikes and not having to reach for my iPhone is huge convenience.

That's especially true for memories. Confession: I find them kind of annoying on iPhone. I'm usually busy when I have my phone in my hand so I don't have the patience for the notifications or the time to explore and share memories. When I'm on my iPad or Mac, it's a different story. Especially my Mac. On my Mac, a memory will pop up in the corner or the bottom of a photo I'm looking at and I'll smile, and more often than I expect, I'll share it.

Same for the new third-party extensions that allow you to order framed prints and other IRL manifestations of your photos. I've had a chance to see some samples and they're just what you'd expect: Extremely clean, extremely well printed, and extremely high quality. The holiday season will be telling, but I have some strong preconceptions about how I'll end up using them. I may yet be proven wrong, but my guess is grabbing a one-off or impulse items will be awesome on iPhone. Planning something really special, though, will again better on iPad and, dare I propose, still even better for me on the Mac.

What I've really been waiting for, though, is Faces sync. When Apple initially re-deployed facial recognition and tagging last year, the company said syncing would come later.

Well, later is now. And the reason it took so long is that Apple wanted to provide the convenience of sync while maintaining the privacy and security of on-device processing — Apple doesn't want to know who your friends and connections are, and I'm supremely thankful for that.

So, what Apple's doing is interesting. To enable face detection, you have to start selecting people you know and then identifying them. At that point, the on-device machine learning and computer vision takes over and starts to add more and more pictures of the identified people to the pool.

When syncing, Apple is only moving over the data you yourself identified. None of the machine learning or computer vision relationships that were built around it. Just your "truth". Then, the synced device rebuilds those relationships locally.

In other words, I tag pictures of my mom on my iPhone, it finds other pictures of my mom on my iPhone to add to her Faces folder on my iPhone. The pictures I tagged are also synced to my Mac, which then also finds other pictures of my mom on my Mac to add to her Faces folder on my Mac.

Apple will have to prove that this implementation works well enough that people who want no part of the massive data harvest that is Google Photos will still find it useful enough to use, and that'll take a while post-launch to really shake out.

Still, privacy is good and options are good, and options for privacy are great.

macOS High Sierra Safari

Safari has been my go-to web browser for years. It's gotten to the point where I only install Chrome on a Mac when and if I have to. And most recently, I haven't had to.

Safari is just so much lighter, both in interface and power draw, that it better fits the modern, mobile world. Because I work on the web and spend most of my day in a browser, whatever improvements Apple makes to Safari, and its underlying technologies like WebKit, affect me directly. And it's great to see Apple still pushing that forward.

Yes, relentless performance and zero regression are alive and well . Apple strongly believes Safari is the fastest web browser on the planet and the company is going to make sure it not only stays that way, but that everyone knows about it.

There are some new features in Safari for macOS High Sierra as well, including automatically blocking auto-play videos. That's not just video ads either but sites that start playing video right away to buff up their view numbers. If you've ever had silly sounds pop out of your Mac at the worst possible time — cough, senior staff meetings, cough — you'll really appreciate this.

Safari will also block trackers. Advertising companies use trackers to try and build profiles to serve more compelling ads and to make sure they don't pay to serve the same person the same ad more than a handful of times. (Because, after that, you've either already clicked on it or, more likely, already decided it's something you're not going to click on — and advertisers are nothing if not frugal to a fault.)

Since ads are super dumb and normally don't know about each other, they don't share trackers but rather spin up multiple instances of even the same tracker multiple times on the same page. That in no way helps the advertisers with their goals but absolutely kills performance on the page.

As disheartening as it is for some of us to believe, it's not the privacy that bothers most people — otherwise we'd be far, far more careful about all the data we're already handing over to Google and Facebook in exchange for "free" services. It's the impact on performance. We don't all hate giving away data but we all seem to hate our browsers being slow.

Regardless, this solves for that. And what's more, Safari for High Sierra lets you save settings per site. So, you do things like defaulting certain sites to Reader Mode if that's what you want.

There's a lot more too, including: WebRTC, HEVC for more efficiency web video, variable fonts so great typography stays looking great across different screens and resolutions, CSS fill and stroke, CSS Grid so everyone finally stops using tables (right?), CSS scroll snap because web apps need all the scrolling help they can get, and Gamepad support for online games.

Also, WebAssembly so you can get binary with it on the web, SharedArrayBuffer because JavaScript deserves to be multi-CPU aware too, Fetch API to bring resource loading out of the stone ages, DOM JIT because the object model needs to be just-in-time too, HTML custom elements because easier code reuse is easier, offscreen canvas to make web animations silky smoother, indexed database API 2.0 because persistent storage for web apps needs as much 2.0 as it can get, and input events and point lock to better control interactivity,

And URL standard for better parsing compatibility across browsers, resource and user timing to help analyze web performance or the lack thereof, visual viewport so responsive design can pan, zoom, and handle other changes, concurrent garbage collection so it stops janking up your browsing, and HTTP immutable responses for better security and performance.

macOS High Sierra Miscellany

Siri for macOS High Sierra gets the same new, more natural voice as Siri for iOS, and the same, new, more circular icon just like on the top of HomePod . There's also music integration for recommendations, playlist creation, and general information.

There's still no sign of HomeKit support, though, which is a huge bummer. I'd love to be able to tap Siri on the Touch Bar and turn my lights on or off without having to reach for an iOS device or remote.

Along the same lines, even though Continuity was introduced three versions ago, there's still no support for media, which means I can't be listening to a playlist on my Mac, get up and walk away, and keep listening on my iPhone without missing a beat.

I miss all the beats — unless I manually tap through to find and play the same list, or ask Siri to find and restart it. Yes, like an animal.

Given the great lengths Apple has gone to make its platforms such a uniform, consistent experience, it only sticks out all the more when gaps like this remain year after year after year.

Auto Unlock is updated to provide support for the W2-powered Apple Watch Series 3 . (You'll need to update if you got a new Watch.)

Universal Clipboard has graduated from text and images to full on files. It now lets you copy and paste documents between Macs using just the power of Apple ID, iCloud, Bluetooth LE, and point-to-point Wi-Fi alone. That's a geeky way of saying hit CMD-C on one Mac, move over to another Mac that's also logged into your account, and hit CMD-V. Boom, Continuity file copying. It's great and now that we have Files.app on iOS, I hope it goes cross-platform as well.

Spotlight, still around and kicking in the age of voice, now gives you flight numbers, arrival and departure times, terminal and gate info, update you on flight delays, and show you a map of the flight path. There's also support for constellations and, hurrah, multiple Wikipedia results.

Accessibility offers Type to Siri, which has been on my wish-list for a long time as well. (Sadly, inverse colors doesn't seem to be as smart as the new iOS 11 version, at least not yet.)

For iCloud, you'll be able to share an iCloud Drive link the way you've been able to share a Dropbox link for a while. Just copy it, send it, and whomever you share it with will be all up in your file or files with you. (Yes, share wisely.)

Files you share can be used in any compatible app and you can control access. So, for example, anyone can view one file but only specific Apple IDs can edit another. Think Google Docs sharing but for iCloud.

Mail is faster and now shows top hits based on a variety of factors, including how often you engage with the sender. It's supposed to get better the more you use it. I've found it a bit of a mixed blessing since I often search for mail that comes from senders I typically don't engage with — like for order status or shipping info. I'll give it time, but I currently feel lost more often than I did staring at the long list of literal results.

Notes lets you pin notes at the top of the list and also add tables. Since its launch, I've pretty much lived in Notes for most of my writing. It's my figurative mind palace. But with sync. It doesn't get all the fancy new features like document scanning or, obviously, Instant Access via Apple Pencil, but I'll take any improvements I can get.

I'd still kill for a plain text mode. Hard.

I also wish Instant Markup for screenshots was included in macOS High Sierra the way it is in iOS 11, because Mac users want to complain, taunt, and tease via screenshot too.

FaceTime lets you grab Live Photos during video calls. It's terrific fun in the best Photo Booth sense of the word. There are no effects, like Photo Booth, but there's every bit the sense of grabbing onto and holding a special moment. And since it uses the camera on the other end of the conversation, you get much better quality than simply screenshot, compressed video quality. You get everything the other device can deliver. In motion.

Still waiting on FaceTime conference calling.

There's also bilingual English support, autocorrect, auto word-list updating, and better video captioning for Japan; safe browsing and local points of interest for China, Hindi as a system language, a Nastaliq font, SF Arabic system font, and new bilingual dictionaries for Russian and Portuguese.

macOS High Sierra Conclusion

macOS High Sierra will win over most customers with precisely one feature: It's free. But I also think it'll win more than its fair share of fans on the strength of its new technologies and refinements. For people like me who have been looking for VR support or waiting on a few extra features for everyday apps like Photos or Notes, or wanted Faces to sync, it'll be a clear win. (iMessage sync was supposed to come as well at launch but has been delayed until a future update.)

It's not a big, flash update filled with whiz-bang new designs, animations, and workflows. The changes are deep. Deep as the file system, as the graphics engine, as the concept of AI and sync that respect our privacy and security.

As someone who uses macOS every day and has everything from the multitouch trackpad to the keyboard shortcuts on muscle-memory speed-dial, the update to High Sierra has been something I've barely noticed. The was nothing to get used to, nothing to relearn. Everything I do keeps getting done, just faster and better. At least mostly.

I do wish Apple had addressed some of the longer-standing gripes, like the aforementioned lack of HomeKit support, lack of Continuity for media and News for Mac, and the inflexibility of Split View, but they nailed other ones like external editors in Photos. They also gave Safari, the most important app on the platform, so much love.

Apple is positioning macOS High Sierra as an update that prepares the platform for future innovation. That's not just technologies like APFS and Metal 2, and Core ML and eGPU, HEVC and HEIF, but new products like iMac Pro and a new Mac Pro coming later this year and next.

And that's fine. Excellent even. As long as that future delivers.

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Rene Ritchie is one of the most respected Apple analysts in the business, reaching a combined audience of over 40 million readers a month. His YouTube channel, Vector, has over 90 thousand subscribers and 14 million views and his podcasts, including Debug, have been downloaded over 20 million times. He also regularly co-hosts MacBreak Weekly for the TWiT network and co-hosted CES Live! and Talk Mobile. Based in Montreal, Rene is a former director of product marketing, web developer, and graphic designer. He's authored several books and appeared on numerous television and radio segments to discuss Apple and the technology industry. When not working, he likes to cook, grapple, and spend time with his friends and family.

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While the process is pretty straightforward, getting your hands on older releases of macOS isn't so easy.

It's important to understand that not all versions of macOS (or Mac OS X) work with all hardware configurations. It's common knowledge that new macOS releases often drop support for older hardware , but the same is true for newer Mac models and older software, too.

For example, you cannot install any version of macOS prior to Big Sur (released in 2020) on a Mac with an Apple Silicon chip, including the M1. Older versions were written for Intel chips, which use the x86_64 instruction set, while the newer Apple Silicon chips use the ARM instruction set .

Your Mac's "earliest" supported version of macOS is the one that it came with. If you're not sure what your Mac came with, head to Apple Support and search for your exact model. You can find out which Mac you have by clicking on the Apple logo in the top-left corner and selecting "About This Mac" to see the name and year of release.

If you're willing, you can install newer versions of macOS than your Mac supports with tools like Patched Sur . After trying this, you might come to the conclusion that newer releases perform too poorly on your hardware, at which point, you'll need to roll back.

This guide can help you roll back to almost any version of macOS. If you do decide to try a new version of macOS and you're reliant on Time Machine for your backups, resist backing up with Time Machine until you're sure that it's where you want to stay.

Older versions of macOS might experience problems restoring from Time Machine backups made on subsequent releases. For example, trying to restore a Time Machine backup made in Big Sur (released in 2020) in macOS Catalina (released in 2019) could prove difficult.

You can get around this by using a third-party backup tool like Carbon Copy Cloner or ChronoSync . As a last resort, you could manually back up your important documents, libraries, and so on to an external drive. We'd recommend test-driving any experimental macOS installations for a while before you commit.

You can download most older versions of macOS using the Mac App Store or direct links to Apple's website. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't index the Mac App Store entries so that you can search for them in the app. To get them, you'll need to follow direct links, which we've listed below.

If you have trouble getting these links to work, first, make sure that you're using Safari, and then try closing the Mac App Store and clicking on the link again.

Mac App Store Links for Older macOS Downloads

Once any of these downloads finishes, do not open the installer to begin the installation. Leave the installation app in your Applications folder.

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macOS Catalina (2019)
macOS Mojave (2018)
macOS High Sierra (2017)

Direct Disk Image Links for Older macOS Downloads

Once any of these downloads are complete, mount the .DMG file and run the .PKG installer within. This will put an installation app in your Applications folder, which you should leave there.

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Mac OS X El Capitan (2015)
Mac OS X Yosemite (2014)

If you have a valid Apple Developer account, you might be able to download older versions from developer.apple.com/downloads . Non-developers can buy OS X Mountain Lion ($19.99) and OS X Lion ($19.99) from Apple directly. Apple will email you an unlock code, which you can redeem in the Mac App Store.

There might be old copies of Lion, Mountain Lion, and even Snow Leopard for sale on sites like eBay .

Some websites might offer old versions of OS X for download, but we recommend avoiding them. First, the installer might contain malware. Second, there are legal concerns: OS X is still copyrighted software. Even if you own a license, you might not be able to legally download it in your jurisdiction. If you can, you might not be able to legally use BitTorrent to download it, as your BitTorrent client will be uploading parts of OS X to other people during the download process.

Creating a bootable USB stick is necessary to install an older version of macOS. You can use this drive multiple times in different machines, throw it in a drawer for next time, or erase it when you're done and make a new one when it's time to reinstall again.

Prepare Your USB Drive

Apple recommends a USB drive that's formatted as Mac OS Extended, with 14GB of free space for the latest versions of macOS. We've used 8GB drives in the past to install Catalina and earlier, so your mileage might vary.

To format your drive, connect it to your Mac, and then launch Disk Utility (You can do this by using Spotlight or by finding the app in your Applications > Utilities folder.). Locate the drive in the sidebar, click on it, and then click "Erase" and give it a name. In the drop-down box, select "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)," and then click "Erase" to start the process.

Create a Bootable USB in Terminal

We'll be using Terminal to create the USB drive, so launch it via Spotlight or locate the app in your Applications > Utilities folder. You can use a single command to create your installation medium, but this differs depending on which version of macOS you're trying to install.

This assumes that you're installing Big Sur, that your drive is labeled "macos_installer," and that you have the relevant macOS installer in your Applications folder:

You can change various parts of this command to suit your own circumstances, with the main one being the name of the installer. Be aware that any spaces will need to be preceded by a backslash. For example, "Install macOS High Sierra.app" would become

in this context.

Here's another example that creates a macOS High Sierra install USB on a drive named "MacOS Installer":

You can run the

command to list all connected volumes, which will include your USB installation medium in case you need to check the label.

Once you hit Enter, you'll need to enter your admin password to approve the command, and then hit "Y" on your keyboard to confirm that you're OK with the contents of the USB drive being overwritten.

Install macOS from Scratch

Once your installation files have been copied, it's time to install macOS from scratch. To ensure that everything goes smoothly, we'll take the extra step of deleting your existing partition before installing macOS.

First, insert your USB drive and turn off your Mac. The next instruction will differ depending on which type of Mac you have ( Here's how to tell. ). They are as follows:

Apple Silicon (M1 chip and newer): Press and hold the power button until you see the startup options window, and then click on the USB volume that you created earlier and click Continue.
Intel-powered Mac: Press and hold Option (Alt) as you turn your Mac on. Release when you see a list of bootable volumes, select the USB stick that you created, and click on the upward-pointing arrow.

Once macOS loads (You might need to select a language first.), click on Utilities > Disk Utility. Select your drive (usually labeled as "Macintosh HD") in the sidebar, and then click "Erase."

Warning: The contents of your Mac's system volume will be erased in the next step, so make sure that you've backed up any data that you don't want to lose.

If you're installing macOS Sierra or later, choose "APFS." Otherwise, you'll need to format to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" for El Capitan and earlier. When you're sure about your decision, click "Erase" and confirm.

Finally, quit Disk Utility and select "Reinstall macOS" or "Install macOS" (or Mac OS X, for older versions) from the macOS Utilities window. Follow the rest of the prompts to finish the installation.

You might be interested in doing this if you have an older Mac that isn't compatible with the latest version of macOS but that might still benefit from a squeaky clean installation . This is one of the few things that you can try to improve performance on an old Mac .

Finally, if this worked out for you, consider keeping a copy of your preferred retired version of macOS on a spare drive, just in case it's hard to find by the next time you try this.

Related: How to Speed Up Your Old Mac and Give It a New Life

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macOS High Sierra overview

Mac OS High Sierra launched with a few new features such as an enhanced Apple Photos with new capabilities and many security updates and fixes. There were also quite a few tweaks and fixes that made users want to get the latest Mac OS High Sierra download at the time.

The Mac OS High Sierra release date was September 25, 2017. Its features and changes are mainly in the background of this release, so users won’t see an awful lot of differences between Sierra and High Sierra.

Mac OS High Sierra compatibility starts with late 2009 iMacs and Macbooks, and mid to late 2010 Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs. Its requirements are at least 2 GB of RAM, and 14.3 GB of disk space.

High Sierra is still available for download for a clean install. The installer also allows for system reloads if you don’t want to reinstall from scratch. This release has interesting features that users might not notice at first as the real changes were done to the core of the OS.

When making comparisons such as Mac OS Mojave vs High Sierra it is important to note that both versions of the OS still have support for 32 bit applications.

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Mac OS High Sierra brings with it changes to Photos. Photos now has an updated sidebar as well as some new editing options and tools.

Another enhancement is that Photos now synchronizes tagged people with your devices that are running iOS 11.

Other improvements include Mail and Spotlight search enhancements. This includes results with with Top Hits. Big system changes and optimizations means that Mail requires 35% less storage space.

Usability changes like Mail's compose window also add extra levels of functionality to the app. Mail now has a split-screen mode.

"Intelligent Tracking Prevention" is a new feature that utilizes machine learning which assists with blocking unauthorized sources from tracking the user activity.

Safari now blocks auto playing videos from starting automatically. "Reader Mode" has the option of being switched to always-on mode.

Another good backend change is that Safari 11 also supports WebAssembly in this release.

An update to the Notes app now allows the user to add tables to notes. A note can also be pinned to the beginning of a list so that it shows as being prioritized.

Siri’s voice has been upgraded and now features a more human like expressive range. Again, machine learning is used to help Siri to better understand user interactions.

Siri now carries your experience over to all Apple devices, giving you a much better integration than in Mac OS Sierra.

Is Mac OS High Sierra still available?

Yes, Mac OS High Sierra is still available to download. I can also be downloaded as an update from the Mac App Store and as an installation file. Compatibility is very similar to Mac OS Sierra and requires a Mac from late 2009. There are newer versions of the OS available too, with a security update for 10.13.1.

How to download Mac OS X High Sierra?

The best way to download Mac OS X High Sierra is via a direct link download. This is primarily because Apple has hidden the installer from the Mac App Store. This means that users that search for the installer will not find anything if they have a newer version of Mac OS. Users can download the app via a direct link and then install it that way.

Can I install High Sierra on my Mac?

Yes, you can install it on your Mac if you have an older version of Mac OS. There are some cases where you might like to downgrade your Mac OS to a previous version, and this is also achievable with the High Sierra installer. It is also possible to make a bootable Mac OS High Sierra USB drive.

Will Mac OS High Sierra work on my Mac?

If your Mac has the minimum specifications that are required then you will be able to run the OS with no problems. The minimum requirements are 2GB of RAM and 14,3 GB of storage space available on your hard drive. You will need a late 2009 iMac or a mid to late 2010 MacBook to run High Sierra.

How do I get back to High Sierra from Mojave?

In order to revert back to High Sierra from Mojave you will need to have the High Sierra installer. By running this installer, you will be able to run through all of the options and install it on your Mac device. The installation file for High Sierra might not show up in your Mac App Store.

What’s new in version 10.13.6

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AirPlay 2 for iTunes:

Control your home audio system and AirPlay 2-enabled speakers throughout your house
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Photos not recognizing AVCHD media from some cameras
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How to download and install macOS

Download and install current or previous versions of the Mac operating system on compatible Mac computers.

To maintain your computer’s security, stability and compatibility, Apple recommends using the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac. macOS updates and upgrades also include the latest features and built-in apps, such as Safari.

Use Software Update

Use macos recovery, use the app store.

Use a web browser

Use a bootable installer

If you need help.

Software Update is the fastest and easiest way to get macOS updates and upgrades, and it can use less storage space to download and install them.

Software Update only shows software that is compatible with your Mac. If Software Update says that your Mac is up to date, then no new software is currently available for your Mac model.

How to update macOS using Software Update

If you want to reinstall macOS, or your Mac doesn't start up all the way because it doesn't have a working operating system, you can use the built-in Recovery system to reinstall macOS.

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery

To download macOS from the App Store, you must download from a Mac that is compatible with that macOS. If your Mac isn’t compatible, the App Store will dim the Get button, state that the macOS is not compatible with this device or state that the requested version of macOS is not available.

Use these links to find macOS in the App Store. If these links don’t work as expected, try again using Safari, which is in your Applications folder.

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Click the Get button in the App Store to start downloading. Software Update may open and ask you to download from there.

After downloading to your Applications folder, the installer will open automatically. Follow the onscreen installation instructions. Or quit without installing to leave the installer in your Applications folder for later use.

Use a web browser for older versions

These older macOS versions are available as disk images that you can download using your web browser. To get the installer from the disk image, you must use a Mac that is compatible with that macOS.

Use these links to download a macOS disk image (.dmg) file. If these links don’t work as expected, try again using Safari, which is in your Applications folder.

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Yosemite 10.10

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Double-click the .dmg file to open it and see the package (.pkg) file within.

Double-click the .pkg file, then follow the onscreen instructions to install the macOS installer into your Applications folder.

Open your Applications folder and double-click the macOS installer, named Install [ Version Name ]. Follow the onscreen installation instructions.

A bootable installer can be useful if you want to install macOS on multiple computers without downloading the installer each time, or when you can't install using macOS Recovery or the other methods.

To download an installer suitable for creating a bootable installer, use the App Store or use a web browser to download from a compatible Mac. The Mac must also be using macOS High Sierra or later, the latest version of macOS Sierra or the latest version of OS X El Capitan.

How to create a bootable installer for macOS

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