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In the last weeks I Decided to upgrade to Monterey; But by waiting for a good moment to have time enough to manage this, my system preferences only show Ventura.
So my question is how do I upgrade to Monterey. When I search in the appstore-app Monterey is not showing. What is the best way to upgrade? Any help would be appreciated.
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 10.14
Most important in all this question you asked received, was some guidance was rendered.
Anything outside of that is " icing on the cake "
Only the Original Owner of this question can decide such matters and is purely discretionary
Most important in all this question you asked received, was some guidance was rendered.
Anything outside of that is " icing on the cake "
Only the Original Owner of this question can decide such matters and is purely discretionary
The Age of this computer will Govern what newer version of macOS it will Qualify to install. Use About this Mac from the Apple Icon on Desktop - the required Information will be there.
With the above information in-hand - follow this How to get old versions of macOS and verify what version this computer Qualifies to install. For Best results use Safari to commence the download as Others may not work.
Safari will open a redirect and open the Apple Store where the download can commence.
Caution - jumping over all the newer versions and directly to Big Sur / Monterey , Ventura on Qualifying computers is Technically possible - there are those who have attempted and were successful.
Then there are those who attempted and had less than good results.
If this is a Production or Mission Critical Set-up - a more prudent and measure approach is suggested.
The above is from observations on the Apple Support Community Forums and IMHO
Computer Qualifying for macOS 13 Ventura
Computer Qualify for the Monterey upgrade
macOS Big Sur 11 hardware requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 hardware requirements
Tips Big Sir Upgrade Released Nov 2020
Tips Monterey Upgrade Released Oct 25, 2021
Make Time Machine Backup is very useful and can be used to Revert to Previous Working macOS
Notation - Mojave is the Last version to support 32 bit applications / extensions and Drivers. Catalina, Big Sur & Monterey supports only 64 bit and there is no workaround.
Suggest using Go64 to find 32 bit application before attempting the upGrade. Some or many of the Application already installed may require an update or upGrades to 64 Bit Version
If not mistaken, when you start a New Question one is offered to choose a Device that this question will retain to.
These Devices are the Devices associated with and registered and associated your Apple ID
Example as per my Apple ID and devices register to my Apple ID
Thank you so much, the reason I began to doubt , was that i could not find Monterey in the Appstore by the search function of the app; But the Link in Safari opens the app and finds it there. ..a bit curious.
Normally, when Apple releases a New Version of macOS, Ventura in this case - Released Oct 24, 2022, the preceding version Monterey is relegated to a Non Visible but still on the Apple Apps Store.
The only way to find, in your case Monterey is via a Directly Link which, as you discovered presented the Monterey Download.
thank you so much. A very complete answer also about questions tat may arise during installation.
Sorry for not giving u the "best answer" because both first answers in this thread answers would count for best. and its likely not possible to give this attribute to more than one.
You are absolutly right, i thougt that my computer is described well at the end of the first post, but it only says Imac 27" 5k; but it is also 2017 no idea where to change this in my profile; So ill keep this in mind and post the specific preconditions in the next questions.
You are welcome and thank you too
Am on my iPhone but will explore your additional quest soon and post back here will additional info to change your byline from iMac to machine?
How to upgrade from Mojave to Monterey instead to Ventura
