Wil Upgrading To Sierra Mac Os Will I Be Asked For My Apple Id

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Find My Mac works with the Find My app to help you track down a lost Apple device. I recommend turning on Find My Mac, even for a rig as large as an iMac ($1,800 at Best Buy) that's less likely to. On an Intel-based Mac, you can use Option-Command-R at startup to upgrade to the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac. Exceptions: If macOS Sierra 10.12.4 or later was never previously installed, you will receive the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available. If your Mac isn't compatible with the latest macOS, you might still be able to upgrade to an earlier macOS, such as macOS Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, or El Capitan. To get the latest features and maintain the security, stability, compatibility, and performance of your Mac, it's important to keep your software up to date.

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This tip is part of a series of tips for : Mac OS X 10.6,10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10,El Capitan System (10.11), Mac OS 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, and 10.15 Catalina, and 11.0 Big Sur.

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All Macs prebundled with 10.12 can be upgraded to Catalina directly.


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The official release date of Sierra was September 20, 2016. Note, it no longer has 'X' in the official name.

Macs that shipped with Sierra can be updated directly to Mojave from the Mac App Store.


Apple has the official release links for Sierra through Mojave on:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202 10.12 Sierra

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969 10.13 High Sierra

Sierra

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190 10.14 Mojave


High Sierra is also still available as of September 30, 2018. The only exception is that High Sierra needs a minimum of 10.8 installed, and will reformat SSD and and Flash drives to APFS rendering it invisible to Sierra and older systems. Serato scratch live download free.


Note: some downloads may have trouble because of Apple's certificates. This thread discusses the issues around that:


Sierra can be upgraded from 10.7.5 directly if all its associated updates have been installed.

Any version of 10.7 can be upgraded in this sequence before installing

newer operating systems if the hardware is supported:

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1. 10.7.5 Combo

2. Supplemental to both Combo and Delta

3. 10.7.5 Security Update 2014-004

4. 10.7.5 Bash update.


Some Macs may not be able to take Sierra, but can take 10.11 and came with 10.6.8 or

earlier. Apple has provided an update to 10.11 for these Macs while

leaving 10.10 and 10.9 off the App Store as discussed here.


Not all 10.6.8 compatible Macs are compatible with 10.11 either.


See this tip to find out if your Mac can install Sierra from a system as old as 10.6:



As always, http://roaringapps.com/apps is an excellent third party resource to find and contribute

compatibility of Mac Software. Some reports may predate the September

20, 2016 date, and should be verified with the software publisher.


Note, download times may be longer than usual on first release. Backup (link explains how) your data before you install anything.


Apple had kept the same minimum hardware requirements for Mac OS X 10.8 through 10.11.


Here are the new requirements with the Machine ID (x,x) as stated in the System Profiler for Mac OS 10.12 Sierra.


  • MacBook (Late 2009 or newer) 6,1
  • MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 or newer) 6,1
  • MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer) 3,1
  • Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer) 4,1
  • iMac (Late 2009 or newer) 10,1
  • Mac Pro (Mid 2010 or newer) 5,1


These requirements are the same for High Sierra, the operating system that succeeded Sierra.

This information is available on http://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-requirements

Apple has printer support on this knowledgebase article.


Mac OS Sierra 10.12.1, 10.12.2, 10.12.3, 10,12.4, 10.12.5, 10.12.6 are available for it as well. And

as with any install should be preceded with a backup using the Photo aspect ratio app for macbook pro.

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aforementioned backup directions.


Sierra supports new RAW formats for digital photography:



New USB serial drivers for Sierra have been made available by third party here:

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Safari 12.0.1 was released on October 31st for both Sierra and High Sierra through the App Store.


Security Update 2018-005 was released October 30, 2018.


Unsupported Macs may have Sierra installed from the patch by http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html


Use at your own risk.






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