I hope you like the new walkthrough format! Give me your honest thoughts if you like it or not. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all your support THANK YOU!!! 😀
Hi Mr Macintosh, this walk-through is much better, fast and quick as we all know the steps we have been doing in the last couple of years. This is much better and saves time. Thanks a lot again for the hard work you have put in. It keeps my 2012 Mac mini alive.
I made a post yesterday (see below for detail) After messing around in OCLP setting I now appear to have full function of my Late 2011 MacBook Pro. I say appear because there are other functions to try yet but things are looking so much better now. The slow lag is gone, can watch videos now. Studio One 6 is good and so forth. Thank you and the other developers for what you guys are doing with these old / older Macs. What Apple as done to their customers in last several years is perfect Karma. Thank you guys again.
Hey….how much ram are you using on your macbook pro 2012?I also have the same one and thinking of upgrading….how is it running?are there any battery issues?Is it hanging?
So glad I came across this video because my Mid 2014 MBP 13 was so sluggish with both Sonoma and Ventura and I was considering buy an M3 pro MBP 14 this week, but after installing Sequoia its been running like new again. Even the battery life improved a bit. Hopefully I can get another 3-4 years out of it. Thank you so much.
I felt the same with sonoma and went back to big sur where it is running smooth. I also have Mid 2014 MBP 13 (i5 - 16 -512). Now you made me want to try again.
Another excellent tutorial on an OCLP MacOS install from Mr. Macintosh. 💯 Note to Tim Cook and the Apple software engineers: It’s unfortunate you couldn’t (or didn’t want to) make Sequoia 15 supported on my late 2012 iMac. Umm, apparently it is possible! Thanks to the OCLP team’s hard work and Mr. Macintosh’s easy walkthrough of the OCLP installation, MacOS Sequoia 15 is working fast and flawlessly on my “unsupported 2012 Mac.” 👏 👍
Thx Mr Macintosh. Just Updated my Mac Pro 6.1 3GHz 10-Core Intel Xenon E5; AMD FirePro D300 2GB; 64GB 1866MHz DDR3; Aura Pro X2 1TB & 2 Mac Studio Displays (2023). All is working. No Problems found right now. Performance is excellent.
I‘ll do i5 & i7 Mac Minis Late 2012, i5 & i7 iMacs 2009 and 2011 tonight. Will keep you guys informed about how it went. Most important think learned from three years of using OCLP: don‘ panic! Mostly the machine just needs time. Let it do it’s magic and wait for it to finish the process. If stuck, kill it, restart in safe mode (loooooooong holding of the Shift button during boot until the login screen appears again - can be up to one minute or longer), run Root Patches manually on that very laggy system, restart and: there you go! Worked all the time. Even without Ethernet attached (since newer OCLP versions). 🫶🏻
@@joebonsaipoland This I don’t know as I don’t own such a machine. But you can stick with Mr. Macintosh‘s trusty step-by-step tutorials and his basic advise to NOT try it on you „daily driver“. OCLP and old Mac hardware running the latest macOS versions is still a project and failures can happen. So always make sure you did a backup (or two, on different disks) before you try installing latest macOS on an unsupported machine. Good luck - and: don’t panic! 👍🏼
@@Mr.Macintosh Thanks! Here are my findings on 4 devices: MacMini 6,1 I had to repeat the installation as it just straight up failed for whatever reason but 2nd attempt went very smooth with good performance MacBookPro 9,2 installation was pretty slow and I had to manually install opencore on the ssd afterwards because oclp didn’t trigger the usb message, performance seems good MacBookPro 11,3 quick easy installation no issues and good performance iMac 15,1 also very easy simple installation very good performance as well All in all no major issues or anything and happy with the result!
Your videos are perfect. No nonsense, clear & concise. Couple that with new OCLP and what used to be a bit nerve wracking is now basically a pretty normal update. Thanks for all the help.
This is certainly a more personable format because it shows a bit of a human and a nice clean desktop, and I'm glad you'll have the other lengthy format.
FINALLY UPDATED!!!! :) Running a 1T 15” 2012 Mackbookpro 9,1 with a 16g ram i7 - Been on Catalina forever! Just updated to Sequoia and the download was seamless. Thank you so much for this walkthrough!! 😊 It’s been 3 years since I’ve been able to run an updated version of excel and 100% looking forward to being able to actually download Chat GPT and other programs I’ve not been able to use. 🎉
I had my 2013 Mac Pro "Trash Can" and was sad it was stuck on MacOS Monterey. This is what I had been looking for! I followed everything...and it worked great! Thank you so much! I did some comparison benchmarking...and the machine runs a bit slower under Sequoia but that is to be expected the way other code is patched in... I am 1000% satisfied!!! Way to keep using older hardware that won't quit !!! ;-)
I was able to update my old iMac 2012. First, I upgraded the old hard drive to an SSD for faster performance. After installation, I disabled FileVault to improve speed. Now, everything is running smoothly, including updated versions of Photoshop and Chrome.
As always FLAWLESS installation, thanks to OCLP and your AMAZING instructional videos! My late 2012 MacBook Pro is running like it was meant for this update! Thank you and all to OCLP!
Thank you for all your help as usual. I have a 2012 MacBook pro (10,1) and got Sequoia easily installed. I did notice it was a little sluggish compared to Sonoma. I did an SMC reset and now my Mac is flying again. I hope this helps someone
That's great, thank you! Works like a charm. It only worked for me (mid-2015 MacBook Pro) after I deleted another partition I had. Automatic reboot was thrown off by that.
I just can't believe the work these folks put in to do this. My 2011 MBP is still going strong, and 15.0 seems to run even better than Sonoma. Absolutely incredible! One question: anyone have issues with Photos? All my photos and videos are just black, nothing seems to show. I can see the time lengths of the videos, but the thumbnails are still blacked out. Just wondering if it is just me or a known bug? Thanks in advance.
@@JTECH7766 Thanks, but I couldn't figure out what you mean. I don't see show view options in Photos. I see it in the finder, but then again nothing about backgrounds so I don't think I was in the right place. Can you be a little more specific?
@@JordYulK if you right click in an open folder for example photos, in the drop down menu at the bottom is show more options where you can change icon spacing, folder background and other variables.
So far the update is working well , just doing one at a time , great work on the tutorial , a big shout of to all ocpl developers and Mr Macintosh for doing a great job and sharing this tutorial video with us and keeping us with the updates Thanks to your videos I'm able to keep all my older macs up to date 👍
Just clean-installed a 2017 MBA and it went like silk. The only caveat is for people who are hoping for iPhone mirroring - if you don't have a T2 chip, you are out of luck. Thanks for your continued work in this field, it's immensely helpful.
Excellent! I did it without wiping a MacPro 2013 with bootcamp (with Windows 11) and it's running great, fingers crossed. Updates disabled. Thank you! Next a 2015 MacBook Air 11 inch 8GB's ram, my favorite form factor laptop.
Fantastic overview Mr Macintosh! Still looking for a video to show upgrading my iMac with OCLP Ventura to OCLP Sequoia. Not sure if i can just do the upgrade through Apple settings. Thanks for all the great videos.
Upgrade from Sonoma to Sequoia with OCLP 2.0.1 failed, twice, with the process hanging. Mac Mini late 2014 with 512 GB SSD. Installed Monterey via web recovery, installed OCLP 2.0.1 and upgraded to Sonoma. Then did a direct upgrade to Sequoia. On log in OLCP reported unpatched root files and offered to download and patch the install which worked! Happily running this "old" Mac now as my "main" PC having retired my WIndows 11, i5, six core Dell. Also purchased a 24 inch curved monitor and Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Just a heads up, I have Sequoia running on my m1 imac and my 2011 27 inch imac. I am now able to successfully mirror both ways receiver and sender with zero hardware upgrades or cables. I think it maxes out at 1080p on one or both screens, ill have to do more testing, but this was not available to me before. Kind of a big deal for those wanting to save their older macs and still use the screen real estate. The 2011 does run excellent though with the ssd upgrade.
@@georgwor8955 Most welcome! I have airplay working both ways, and can max out the sender m1 imac at whatever resolution I want, airplay to the 27 inch is capped at a buttery smooth 1080p with little lag. 51'' of screen real estate!
Thanks a lot! I will be installing macOS Sequoia on my macbook pro 2015, I installed Sonoma but it feels sluggish, even when minimizing windows, I'm hoping that the new version will perform better. Again thank you, your video is so easy to follow.
The Best ! Messages and Plans hang on my late 2016 macbookpro (13,3 model), any idea or advice. Everything else runs smoothly ! Thanks again to the whole team
Runs ok on my 13,2 2012 iMac. couple of issues though. Had a few problems with browsers until I turned off Stage Manger. Not enough time has passed to see if that fixes it. iPhone Mirroring does not work. I was having some Handoff issues in Sonoma, so maybe it's hardware related. 13 Pro, iOS 18.
Need help. I upgraded to OCLP 2.01 on a Monterey mid 2012 MBP Retina running 12.7.5. After the root patches I went and installed 12.7.6 and now its stuck at 1/3 progress bar after the final reboot. It has finished (got to the country selection) because i can move up and down the list but the screen is frozen at 1/3 with the apple logo. I have repeatedly reinstalled. Should I go back to OCLP 1.5 and rebuild the install?
Hi Mr. Macintosh. As I mentioned in a previous OCLP install/update video you posted in this format, I’m still not a big fan of this format. For me personally the full screen capture only version, is imho the most viewer friendly way of presenting your valuable content. Regardless the presentation, the content is as always top-notch. Thanks for sharing this video based on your never decreasing dedication to the Mac community. Cheers
Are there any other videos essential to watch before following this video and updating? Running a 15” mid 2012 Mackbook pro. I’ve been following your content for years!! it it’s been a long time since I’ve updated and I always end up chickening out before updating bc im afraid im missing a step and my whole computer is going to crash. lol 😂 Thanks for everything btw!
Hello @tabithaowens348, great question. This walkthrough was just a quick and easy one that does not get into any of the possible caveats that you might run into. Your install might run just fine! or a small issue might come up. You can hold off for a bit if you are still thinking about it or wait until my detailed video is finished. Thanks for being a viewer after all these years!! 👍
@@Mr.Macintosh FINALLY UPDATED!!!! :) Running a 1T 15” 2012 Mackbookpro 9,1 with a 16g ram i7 - did a clean install from Catalina 10.15.7 to Sequoia and the download was seamless. Thank you so much for this walkthrough!! 😊 100% looking forward to being able to actually download Chat GPT and other programs I’ve not been able to use. 🎉
Not without issues. The installed Opencore is specific for the actual host model. Better get the OS installer file copied (or downloaded…) to the Mac that is going to be OCLP-ed and create a fresh OCLP-installer bootstick from it. This might, at least, safe you the time for another download of the 13 GB of macOS. But you will have to invest the time to create the boot installer stick on the concerning Mac model. If you are updating more than one similar Mac model (exact similar model), then you can re-use the prepared stick. 👌🏼
Can I upgrade my macbook Pro 2017 15” to macOS Sequoia directly from Ventura or should I install Sonoma first? Thank you for your great work helping others.
Tried to troubleshoot this for days, just totally unstable. One in maybe 3 or 4 times it boots and runs correctly. The rest of the times it just fails some major piece like the dock freezes where you can launch apps from Finder, but the Dock is non-responsive. Most of the time Bluetooth does not work unless you reset PRAM before you boot. One time in 4 boots the desktop wallpaper will come up in the Sequoia default, most of the time it's a dark gray/black screen desktop with the non-functional Dock. If you try to get to System Setting and click on wallpaper, you just get spinning indicators on top and bottom of the window. After 5-10 minutes you'll get the bottom of the window with a limited set of icons for other wallpaper; but it doesn't matter because nothing you click on will work. This is on a 2010 MacPro 5,1 with an RX 580 mac-flashed GPU, 48 GB of RAM and a 12-core Xeon processor. I did a clean install and only had the installer USB and the target SSD Boot drive installed. Now it no longer boots at all, the OpenCore boot screen comes up and stalls at just of 1/20 of the way across and sits there indefinitely. The install went just as described in the video; but once booted the trouble starts... Please tell people this DOES NOT WORK on a MacPro 5,1 no matter Metal GPU, updated Apple WIFI & Bluetooth card. This is the with the latest OCLP 2.0.1, installed to the EFI partition on the boot drive and all post-install root patches installed. Stop claiming this works on a 2010 MacPro 5,1 because it just does not.
Hi, I have a MacBook Air 7,2 (13-inch 2017). When trying to install Sequoia through OCLP, the status bar stops mid-way after restarting the machine (holding the option key post restart, then following steps as advised). Have tried multiple times, with different USB drives, but facing the same issue. Can you please help me solve this? Thanks.
Question: I´m using Sonoma with a Macbook Pro mid 2012 9,2, installed via OpenCore. Updated to 2.0.1. Can I update the MacOS directly from the settings menu now? Or I have to create the flash drive installer?
Thank you so much for your videos 🙏 I installed MacOS Sequoia on my 2017 Macbook Pro and the OS turns on after installation with a non working wifi -- but that's the expected behavior. However, after installing the OCLP 2.0.1 root patcher to fix the wifi issue, the computer gets stuck indefinitely on the initial (apple logo) startup process and the OS doesn't load. I was able to revert back to the previous snapshot, but whenever I try to run the root patcher and reboot, the computer gets stuck during initial startup. Is there a fix for this using a different OCLP settings configuration, or will I need to wait for a new version of OCLP?
First of all: Don‘t Panic! 😃 Try this: kill the Mac by holding the power button on it’s backside. Then click it once again to freshly reboot the system while push and hold (!) SHIFT until the login screen appears. Can be like two minutes or more of holding that button and will boot the system in secure mode. It will be super-laggy to log in. Be sure you hit the keys for the password right. The lag can be massive. Once back up, open OCLP and manually run Root Patches (see button on the upper right corner of the program‘s window), let the OCLP create a new version of the EFI (…just follow instructions) and let the Mac boot again once the system tells you to do so. Most probable your problem will be solved then.
@@georgwor8955 thank you for taking the time to write your explanation 🙏 I followed your direction and turned on the computer in Safe Mode and ran the OCLP root patcher and then rebooted. Unfortunately, the same behavior happened again and the computer is getting stuck during startup on the Apple logo.
Sir, iphone morroring not working , even i on wifi and BT on both devices, on same wifi, phone i locked etcetc but nor working, plz tell whats the reason
Runs nice on MacBook pro mid 2014. But two bugs. 1. Have to enter password 2 times to login. 2.Can't resize dock says this setting is being configured by a profile. But I don't have any profiles set up
I received this error when I tried to perform a fresh installation after clicking the "agree" button and then selecting Macintosh HD and then clicking the Continue button. """An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again.""""
When using VMware Fusion to install Windows, I get the error 'Unable to start the virtual machine.' The device is a Mac Pro 2013, and the system version is Ventura. How can I resolve this issue?thx
updated MacPro 5.1 to OS 15 Sequoia. Seems that HEVC-coded videofiles don't work: no preview in finder, QT, Photos, Capture One are freezing trying to open a HEVC video file.
Someone tried Sequoia on a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Early 2015. 2,7 ghz 2-core i5 with 8gb ram? I´m on Sonoma OpenCore Legacy and this runs fine, but I notice I have to be a bit careful with having so many programs up because of ram.
So an update to my own question. I could not wait. I just fresh-installed Sequoia on this Mac (I tried first update but that was a lot of error for me). Man... Its runs smoother than Sonoma, how is it possible? I'm very impressed about how good this is. So if you have the same space as me. Don't hesitate!
Hello, I have been trying to install Sonoma on my 13” MBP 7,1 but it is stuck at like 30% for over 24 hours now. I tried manually rebooting but it then gives me a message saying installation was interrupted upon reboot so I an scared to touch it again. Any ideas?
Fantastic video, very user friendly! Do you have any videos on how to restore from backup if something goes wrong? I think I’m still too chicken to try this without further instruction like that. 🙈
Im on a process of upgrading my Mac mini 2012 16gb 256ssd. Im trying to create the installer on a 64gb external ssd that ive used before. Im now in the “creating installer” and it’s not moving at all… is there some steps im missing. Ive done this before and it’s always a breeze creating the installer, but now… “Bytes written: 0.00MB” stuck there and not moving
I worked this weekend to get this installed on my MacPro 5,1. Previously, Sonoma was working well. Sequoia installed relatively easy, as my System and App are on a separate PCIe NVMe drive. My user data is on a separate PCIe NVMe drive. I cannot get BT to work. I've reset the PRAM a few times, unloaded/loaed the root patches, but 'no go' Any thoughts?
@Mr.Macintosh "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again.."😢😢😢 after i select the disk where Sequoia suppose to install, soon after click on "countinue". Please suggest a solution 😊
Few things to try. 1: just click restart on this error screen. Sometimes that is enough for it to finish a 2nd or 3rd time. 2: try a different install media. 3: fresh install and erase with apfs.
I installed it on Sonoma. Everything was fine. Last night Bluetooth suddenly stopped working. When I turn it on, it immediately shuts down. Should I do a clean install?
Thank you, Mr. Macintosh! I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro 8,1 Dual-Core i5, Intel HD3000 Graphics, 16GB DDR3 RAM, and SSD. Just installed OCLP 2.0.1 and Sequoia 15.0 (upgrade from Sonoma 14.7). Everything works well, except the referenced Photos issue and iPhone mirroring (both expected). However, Pages, Numbers and Keynote will launch but will not open any documents. All I get is an error that the app closed abnormally, do I want to report to Apple (blah blah blah). I've reinstalled Sequoia, reinstalled OCLP and root patches, installed current KDK and Metal Libraries. No change. Any ideas as to a fix for Pages, etc.?
So this isn't quite as easy as it looks. Tried the upgrade install and at some point it just quit putting out video. I have an RX-6600XT in a 2010 MacPro 5,1. Computer is running, but no video and won't respond to the wired keyboard. Had to hold down the power key and restart the install. It should have been at the point where it would boot off the internal SSD, but no, it starts to boot and goes right back into a state with no video. Guess I'll try the erase and fresh install; but the upgrade path definitely does not work on my 2010 MacPro 5,1
I was able to install macOS ventura on my 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 using OCLP 2.0.1, but only with an older RX 580 graphics card. Perhaps now that it's installed I can swap the RX 6600XT back in?
I can’t install any patch. MacBook Pro mid 2010 I select root patching and it starts patching and at the end of the install it says “no such files or directory standard error: none”
Hi, trying to install Sequoia on Mac Pro 6,1 with 30" Apple display. However after the second reboot, the progress line disappears at the few minutes remaining mark and the screen remains black. No new reboot (even after waiting overnight). Restarted, selected EFI Boot and then selected "install Sequoia" on the internal disk to try to continue the install but now it hangs displaying the Apple logo. Any help would be appreciated.
@@IUStudios Try it and see what happens... on Sonoma/OCLP1.5 mine would play vid for about 10 seconds then black out with audio only.. it would work on the built in display but on an external on either my OWC TB2 dock or directly off the built in HDMI port. Same thing..
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