{"id":7697,"date":"2021-10-27T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2021-10-27T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:39:25","slug":"fall-2021-its-recommendation-for-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2021\/10\/27\/fall-2021-its-recommendation-for-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2021 ITS Recommendation for macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday of this week Apple released a new version of the macOS operating system\u2014macOS 12 Monterey. The new OS is generally compatible with Apple hardware made in 2015 and later, with a few exceptions.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though ITS expects to test and approve Mac OS 12 Monterey for use on compatible College Macs as early as next month,&nbsp;<strong>macOS 11 Big Sur will remain the recommended operating system until sometime in 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ITS strongly recommends that College community members thinking about upgrading personal devices to macOS 12 Monterey also adopt a \u201cwait and see\u201d approach, continuing to use earlier supported versions of macOS until the initial bugs and compatibility issues are identified and fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple tends to support their operating systems for three years, and for security and compatibility, the College recommends running one of the two latest releases. <strong>If any of your macOS devices are running macOS 10.15 Catalina or earlier, we ask that you upgrade them to macOS 11 Big Sur at this time.<\/strong> College devices running older versions of macOS will be automatically updated to Big Sur starting over winter break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To upgrade to macOS Big Sur (11.x) on a College-owned computer now, please refer to these instructions:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu\/display\/SW\/macOS+11+Big+Sur\">https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu\/display\/SW\/macOS+11+Big+Sur<\/a><br><br><br><br>*Monterey is compatible with most Macs made in 2015 or later with a few notable exceptions: Early 2015 iMacs and 2015 MacBooks (not MacBook Pros) are not compatible. 2013 or later Mac Pros, and 2014 and later Mac Minis are also compatible with Monterey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday of this week Apple released a new version of the macOS operating system\u2014macOS 12 Monterey. The new OS is generally compatible with Apple hardware made in 2015 and later, with a few exceptions.* Though ITS expects to test &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2021\/10\/27\/fall-2021-its-recommendation-for-macos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall 2021 ITS Recommendation for macOS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":7698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[414,283,141,413,142,147,143],"class_list":{"0":"post-7697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-faculty","10":"tag-facultystaff","11":"tag-macos","12":"tag-software","13":"tag-staff","14":"tag-students","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Monterey.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-209","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}