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 think that the GPU on the Trash Can is only showing one... and any heavy graphics work is pegging the GPU. I know that software has to be written to use both GPUs.... and Davinci Resolve Stuidio that I have... it written for it.... but still only one GPU. I see that this was an issue in past versions.... which they fixed for some MacOS veersion isntallation.... so hopefully they will fix this too ;-) I agree though.... this rocks !!!!
@@TheMactrix I actually see 2 GPUs on my trashcan, and in fact it seems that apps are sharing load on them both that I had never seen before... however, this actually seems to have causing some issues when simple things like Chrome's GPU Helper or other GPU-friendly apps are trying to leverage it, I see the impacted app just stall/froze. The OS still running stable with other apps though.
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.
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?
@@kushagredagar5347 I found mine in electronics recycle bin at work.. it had a bad 2gb ram stick is all, had 4gb in it. I found the owner and he said keep it.. I installed 16gb ram and 1TB SSD. Runs great on stock Catalina. Also seems to run fine on OCLP/Sonoma. Doing Sequoia now.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Mr Macintosh, I cannot thank you enough. I literally just followed your video and now my Mac Pro 6,1 is running Sequoia without a hitch. It was as smooth and simple as you stated. Glad I took the chance. All the best to you and your channel!
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.
same thing for my Macbook air 2014, thought I'd throw it away, with OCLP it is now usable (although Im planning for Linux or FreeBSD) it feels great, and my macbook air Ventura is the kinda OKAY.
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.
My buddy showed me this tutorial and we did it on my Macbook pro 2009 that I had. It stopped working with google, firefox, couldn't do anything on it. Imessage was down, facetime. Literally became a useless brick. So we decided to try this on the laptop and it works. Just like a regular updated mac. This is amazing and shows that really hardware can last if you take care of it and keep it up and running. Big tech trying to get systems to stop so you buy the next best thing. I just need a laptop for maybe music and traveling with band doing tracks or simple email. Finally nice to have working system. I'm going to do this on my parents imac back at home and get them a working computer again since they just need it for zoom and internet. Maybe some photo storage.
Had previously tried with Sonoma on my 2014 iMac 27" but had several issues requiring me to reinstall my original OS. Installed this one today and seems to be working well so far, thank you and all the contributing developers so much 😁
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.
Upgraded my late 2013 iMac 3.5 Quad Core i7 with no problems!! Thank u very much Mr Macintosh for your efforts. The new walkthrough format was inspiring.
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 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.
Thank you for this, just installed it on my mid 2011 imac, no problems at all, will now be able to use some of my unsupported apps again. I am very grateful, thank you again🙌🙌🙏🙏
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.
Hi everyone! For those who have the problem on step 12 and cannot click continue the solution is very simple. When you are on the screen of installing, disco utility, etc…. YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LANGUAGE TO ENGLISH. That’s all.
Thank You so much Mr.Macintosh!! Followed this video, instructions were straight to the point. Just Installed macOS Sequoia 15.2 on my unsupported MacBook Pro (Retina, 15", Mid 2015) which was running macOS Monterey v12.7.6. Being a developer i needed the xcode15 which was incompatible with my MacBook Pro. You're video saved me from spending on another Mac. Thank You!!! God Bless.
Can I upgrade to Sequioa without making an installer disk? 2017 iMac 27" 5K, 4.2 GHz Intel i7 Kaby Lake, 24 GB RAM, 1TB internal SSPOLARIS 4x NVMe SSD as boot volume, 4TB internal Crucial SATA SSD, Radeon Pro 580 with 8 GB vram, MacOS Monterey 12.x latest
Thank you Mr. Macintosh. I tried using Migration Assistant to restore all my data from TimeMachine backup and got stuck in a reboot loop. I did the backup when I had Sonoma OCLP. After a clean install of Sequoia this occurred. Any ideas? Should System be deselected in MA when restoring?
Hello @kaiz1750. Reinstall Sequoia again. let the entire install finish. Then once everything is complete, open up the OCLP app and REVERT the root patches and reboot. Then once back on the desktop restore your backup When the TM backup is restored you can reapply the root patches.
Thank you so much Mr. Macintosh for the quick response. While reinstalling Sequoia it prompted me to restore from TM backup. I went ahead to see how it would turn out. It went fine. Afterwards I had to install EFI on the HDD. That’s all. Had that failed, I would have followed the steps you gave. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this. It is very easy to follow. You've saved our mum's Macbook and provided her a couple more years with the machine. 10/10 would recommend.
Hello, help me please! I’m having issues with the installation of Sequoia using OpenCore Legacy Patcher on my unsupported Mac Pro (MacPro6,1). I prepared the USB drive with OpenCore Legacy Patcher and successfully installed Sequoia on my Mac Pro. The installation appeared to go smoothly, so I proceeded to install it on the internal drive and ran the root patcher. After restarting, everything seemed fine, but after the third restart the next day, regardless of whether I'm actively using the system or not, the mouse pointer turns into a spinning beach ball and eventually the Mac freezes. This occurs on subsequent restarts as well. Installing Sonoma I have the same problem.
Which model of macbook pro do you have exactly? I use the mid-2010 17inch laptop. Sometimes it has issues, then others it's fine after oclp updates and configuring. Did you disable SIP from recovery mode? If not, do so by running the command 'csrutil disable' from the terminal window once in recovery mode. Then reboot and see if you can boot ok.
@@Ink_and_Motion_Studio I think the problems are coming from disabling SIP. Disabling SIP from recovery mode gives me this status which does not seem correct to me: csrutil status System Integrity Protection status: unknown (Custom Configuration). Configuration: Apple Internal: disabled Kext Signing: disabled Filesystem Protections: disabled Debugging Restrictions: enabled DTrace Restrictions: enabled NVRAM Protections: enabled BaseSystem Verification: enabled This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state. Can you help me understand?
Thank you for such a great tutorial on how to install the latest macOS on an unsupported Mac. I have been watching your videos on Open Core Legacy Patcher for over 2 years now. I recently purchased an iMac Late 2013, (officially supported until macOS Catalina). Of course, most applications no longer work on this macOS, and if they do, it's the old versions. So I decided to try following your video to reinstall on macOS Sonoma 14.7.4 (not macOS 15). And I must say that doing the reinstallation on macOS Sonoma according to your very detailed tutorial was a pleasure and although I was worried that something would go wrong during the installation it didn't. I really haven't found such a detailed tutorial that explains the issue so clearly. On macOS Sonoma everything works as it should and even the speed of the computer which I thought would suffer quite a bit by reinstalling macOS Sonoma (because the computer has only 8 GB of RAM in two slots and a 1 TB HDD) is fine and in some ways I would say even faster than on the official Catalina OS. I am not planning to switch to macOS 15 yet or waiting for your video about macOS 15.3 if it is safe to switch to this macOS on an old unsupported mac. Keep releasing as great videos as you have been.
Once I get to the reboot step 10 and select sequoia it comes up with a 🚫 and won’t go further and then just restarts. iMac late 2015 with Mac OS Monterey latest update.
Updated my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012, 9,1) to Sequoia 15.0.1 with OCLP - seamless update and all running smoothly! Thanks so much for your very clear guidance, really appreciated!!
Posting success on 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 6 core X2 Processor to Sequoia 15.0.1 I did the way where you keep apps and files. This went very fast compared to my 2011 8,3 MacBook Pro. It's getting late so I have not been able to check everything. I did get some sort of Keyboard warning but It did not seem to matter :)) Thank you guys for what you are doing. Totally Awesome putting new life into these old Macs!!
Good morning, I'm trying to install Monterey and Sequoia on MACPRO 5.1 using the procedure indicated OCLP 2.0.2. At the end of the installations, when I have to restart, I hold down the ALT key to launch EFI, it freezes and nothing happens. Even for a long time. I tried and tried again many times, with Monterey and with Sequoia. Nothing to do. Thanks if you want to answer me with some indications. MacPro 4.1>5.1 - AMD RX580 Pulse - 64 GB 1333MHz OSX High Sierra 10.13.6
@@tompittman3683 Mojave installed. Repeated the procedure as in the video. No useful results. Black screen and unable to continue. No EFI boot window to start the Monterey or Sequoia installation. Thanks
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!
Thanks for this video and the new format, Mr. Macintosh - I love the deep-dives you do (please keep them coming!) but appreciate this streamlined version and how quick it came out. I’m glad to say that after taking your sound advice to backup my system via Time Machine and preparing 2 USB installers (1 for Sonoma, the current MacOS that works fine, and another for new MacOS 15.0), I successfully upgraded to Sequoia on my late 2013 iMac (27-inch) with 16mb of ram. So far, everything is running smoothly and I’m enjoying the new tools and ride. (Note: In this case I upgraded via Settings rather than using an external USB installer, though I did this with some confidence having prepared a USB MacOS installer via Open-Core 2.0.1 in case the first attempt went south.) Huge thanks to you and the Open-Core developers that have given older Macs years of new life (and counting).
@@Jaime.Guzman Hi, I've regularly updated my iMac (late 2013, 16gb ram, 480gb SSD drive, 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5) via OCLP for a few years now. While there have been a few hiccups along the way, none have been showstoppers and the current config of Sequoia 15.0 with Open Core 2.0.1 has been the smoothest setup so far. Having said that, the usual caveats apply of backing up your data with Time Machine, and creating an external usb thumb drive installer for Catalina, in case things go south, are highly recommended. Good luck!
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 !!! ;-)
@@Mr.Macintosh I have an older iMac 2015 (iMac 15,1)... is the new 2.02 Open Core Legacy Patcher fit for purpose? I saw some o fhe things that supposedly don't work well. Just wanted your thoughts ;_)
Hi Mr. Mac! I successfully upgraded from Monterey to Sequioa on 2010 MBP 7.1. I just don’t have keyboard and mouse function. However you did warn that that will happen. You also provided the work around. Thank you very much!
thank you very much for this video, my MacAir 20212, gained a new life, and I was about to buy a new one (a lot of money saved) thank you and greetings from Poland ;-)
Thank you Mr Macintosh. New format of video is perfect to go quick for new installation (already knew the standard procedure to install but it is good to follow your instructions). Successfully updated to Sequoia on my MBP 8,1 late 2011 - fresh install. Had to reboot (power button 3s) one more time after system install as cursor frozen on screen after initial launch of Sequoia. Now running perfect.
Today's OCLP 2.0.2 update fixed my problem that caused apps to crash when opening a H265/HEVC video file. I'm on MacPro 5.1 Radeon RX 580. Thank you to the developpers for the fix.
Hi. I have the same as you: 5,1 and RX580. I get a black screen after rebooting and holding alt to choose booting to the USB stick. Did you experience this when installing with your RX580 installed? Thanks.
Great videos as usual. And contains all the steps you need from start to finish. By mistake I ended up selecting Sonoma for my version instead of Sequoia, but all good still a nice update from Monterery on by Macbook Pro Retina 2012
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 👍
Thank you to the open core team, I am running sanoma on older but capable machines which let me run the latest adobe products/office suite without having to buy new hardware , mainly editing and processing camera raw files,and running office crap. the increase in speed with newer hardware is just not faster enough to justify any spend at the moment, I gather the same doesn't apply to video editing, and as more AI features get added to software I will eventually have to update hardware, but you have stopped at-least 3 devices going to landfill. cheers
I found this format to be much better then your previous formats; your older versions had too many moving parts and caused a bit of confusion in having to stop your video, back the video up a bit and then forward the video to gain a clear understanding. Thx
This worked a treat. Once I found an external drive to use (the only flash drives I had were too small), everything was pretty smooth. What a fun thing to be able to do. I have a 2013 iMac that was basically on the block to return to Apple for recycling and I thought I'd run through this for a lark. Really fun. Seems to work just fine now. Maybe it'll have some use 🙂 Very much appreciate this information and walkthrough.
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
Thank you so much. I’ve got a new 2TB SSD hard drive to install in my early 2011 17” MacBook Pro. I hope I can do this for my new Hard-drive. I’ve also installed 16GB of RAM. After these upgrade will I be able to run Adobe Photo Shop and Lightroom Classic.
Thank you Mr. Macintosh. May The Mighty God Bless You ! It worked on my Macbook Pro 2015 15-inch Mid 2015. But I install macOs Sonoma 14.7 instead of Sequoia with absolutely the same steps in your video.
Bravo! These instructions were clear, worked very well. A few important notes: Use a fast disk drive for the installer. I tried with a 30 gb flash drive and it was error prone When it’s installing, it’ll reboot a few times and you have to choose EFI boot until you get to the sequoia screen. I had to manually power down once during the reboots because it got stuck. But be patient… I’m thankful for this guide, because now I can install the latest Xcode and use Swift 6+
Greetings from Italia! it was perfect my installation of Sequoia on my unsuported Mac Book air 2016. The only difference It was the fact that after Rebut is was not selected in automatic de Macintosh Internal drive but any way when i so this i selected manualy and it works perfect. I hawe now a new Mac!
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.
U legend I watched ur other video downloading Mac OS big sur and it worked a dream now installing the latest Mac OS sequoia through settings on my late 2012 iMac . Feels illegal 😂😂
Sequoia is now running smoothly on a MacBook Pro from 2014. The greatest difference from all previous macOS versions is how laggy the terminal is, it takes ages to load or to run any command.
A genius man makes other geniuses. Thank you for reviving my 2014 MacBook Air after the Big Sur update. If I find any issues, I will post them. I just realized that yesterday, I could not share files with my Bluetooth. If there is a solution, please let me know.
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.
Mac mini 3,1 from 2009 working ! with Sequoia 15.0 and OCLP 2.0.2 . Then I updated OS to 15.0.1. wifi, bluetooth, usb all are working. Only for simple tasks like browsing, email, word processing etc.
In the video, the installer required around 123 GBs of storage. Best to have a 256 GB flash drive on hand. Don't have one myself . Just ordered from Amazon. Will then attempt the install of Sequoia on my 2015 Macbook Pro.
I have an iMac 2017, Followed your steps, installed OpenCore Legacy Patcher 2.2.0 & Sequoia and double checked that all installation was done correctly. The only problem I see so far is that the WiFi does not open automatically when I startup (I turn it on manually) and the WiFi turns off every time the screensaver activates. Do you have a video on solving this problem? Thanks a million! The Viking
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.
Sweet ❤❤
Thanks for this video!
Hey I have issues for my MacBook Air 2013 WiFi it’s not working and FaceTime camera could you help me fix that please
@@Mr.Macintosh I like it very much! The „optical step-by-step guidance“ makes it super easy. Thank you for your great work! 🫶🏻
Did a fresh install of Sequoia on my 2013 Trash Can tonight. So far, no issues at all. Thanks for all your work!
I think that the GPU on the Trash Can is only showing one... and any heavy graphics work is pegging the GPU. I know that software has to be written to use both GPUs.... and Davinci Resolve Stuidio that I have... it written for it.... but still only one GPU. I see that this was an issue in past versions.... which they fixed for some MacOS veersion isntallation.... so hopefully they will fix this too ;-) I agree though.... this rocks !!!!
@@TheMactrix I actually see 2 GPUs on my trashcan, and in fact it seems that apps are sharing load on them both that I had never seen before... however, this actually seems to have causing some issues when simple things like Chrome's GPU Helper or other GPU-friendly apps are trying to leverage it, I see the impacted app just stall/froze. The OS still running stable with other apps though.
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.
NICE I'm glad it worked well for you! Yes this is a bummer since OCLP has in the past been able to unlock features like this. 😢
My M3 MBA isn't seeing my iPhone for mirroring and from what I've read there's a lot of people in the same boat. It needs some work.
I too have a 2017 non touch mbp will I get mirroring
@@Mr.Macintoshis there a form of work around to enable that feature? If not, do you think in future it will be something OCLP can unlock?
@@hatuxkahow you do it ? Mine is 2017 and it can’t mirror the iPhone
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the hard work you do, its keeping my 2012 Macbook Pro alive
No thank YOU @mahmoudkhalaf1104 😀
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?
@@kushagredagar5347I upgraded ram and battery and ssd, 2012 MacBook Pro. Runs like a top
hey, did you keep all your data? I'm on a late 2011 MBP and worried I'll lose everything :/
@@kushagredagar5347 I found mine in electronics recycle bin at work.. it had a bad 2gb ram stick is all, had 4gb in it. I found the owner and he said keep it.. I installed 16gb ram and 1TB SSD. Runs great on stock Catalina. Also seems to run fine on OCLP/Sonoma. Doing Sequoia now.
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.
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.
This is really great news! I’ve been hearing from viewers that the performance is pretty good on Sequoia! 🥲
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.
I have an iMac 2010 and now have Sequoia installed. It's seems slow, would installing a solid state drive improve this?
@@kianaleilaniYES!
Most likely it will! @@kianaleilani
Got 3 Mac models in progress right now, I know the procedure already but I always listen along for any last minute tips! Thanks!
You are one of the veteran installers that I like to reference! 😀 Let me know how the installations go!
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). 🫶🏻
@@georgwor8955let us know I have a 2011 “17 MBP should I even consider this upgrade?
@@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!
Nice concise video that's straight to the point. Thanks!
macOS 15 Sequoia - Thanks for all your videos on the latest version of open core legacy patcher.
You bet @jasm817 Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this. You have helped so many of us wanting to keep our older Macs going. 🙏🏼💛
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.
This is fantastic news! That 6,1 is a powerhouse!
Mr Macintosh, I cannot thank you enough. I literally just followed your video and now my Mac Pro 6,1 is running Sequoia without a hitch. It was as smooth and simple as you stated. Glad I took the chance. All the best to you and your channel!
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.
same thing for my Macbook air 2014, thought I'd throw it away, with OCLP it is now usable (although Im planning for Linux or FreeBSD) it feels great, and my macbook air Ventura is the kinda OKAY.
A year or so ago I did it with your Ventura video, today I'll start with Sequoia, thanks for the clear and concise video, you're a life saver!
Thank you SO much for your videos! I found you by accident today and am SO glad I did! This 17,1 Mac is now running Sequioa! Thank you!
Thank you @EricaNelson-Powell !!!! I'm glad you found the channel, how is your iMac running?
Thanks! Another successful macOS update!
Thanks!
Thank you very much for the support @lindahomen5464 😀👍
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.
My buddy showed me this tutorial and we did it on my Macbook pro 2009 that I had. It stopped working with google, firefox, couldn't do anything on it. Imessage was down, facetime. Literally became a useless brick. So we decided to try this on the laptop and it works. Just like a regular updated mac. This is amazing and shows that really hardware can last if you take care of it and keep it up and running. Big tech trying to get systems to stop so you buy the next best thing. I just need a laptop for maybe music and traveling with band doing tracks or simple email. Finally nice to have working system. I'm going to do this on my parents imac back at home and get them a working computer again since they just need it for zoom and internet. Maybe some photo storage.
This is a tutorial that covers OCLP perfectly ❤
Thank you @K_ArtRider 👍
Had previously tried with Sonoma on my 2014 iMac 27" but had several issues requiring me to reinstall my original OS. Installed this one today and seems to be working well so far, thank you and all the contributing developers so much 😁
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.
Go to show view options in an open window and make sure background is set to default. If it is try setting a custom colour and see if that works
@@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.
@@JTECH7766 Hey thank you for trying. I just don't see the same things you are describing for some reason, I've looked so many times.
Not sure, but Sequoia needs Metal for Photos (?) and the 2011 can't do Metal
Upgraded my late 2013 iMac 3.5 Quad Core i7 with no problems!! Thank u very much Mr Macintosh for your efforts. The new walkthrough format was inspiring.
Love it. Wish OCLP could do this for iOS lol
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. 🎉
Great to hear! This is a wonderful testimonial, and is why OCLP is so awesome 😀
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.
Thank you for this, just installed it on my mid 2011 imac, no problems at all, will now be able to use some of my unsupported apps again. I am very grateful, thank you again🙌🙌🙏🙏
Great to hear! Thanks for letting us know how well it is running on your iMac. That 2011 is still a fantastic machine 😎
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.
I have the same question!
Same here!
I have the same question as well! Hope you can help!
It works perfect, just make sure you have the last version of OCLP and you are good to update to Sequoia using the Apple settings!
@@luisotzoy2711thank you!
Just followed this to the letter and effortlessly installed Sequoia on my 2017 iMac. Fantastic job on this walkthrough - thanks Mr. Macintosh!
Hi everyone!
For those who have the problem on step 12 and cannot click continue the solution is very simple.
When you are on the screen of installing, disco utility, etc…. YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LANGUAGE TO ENGLISH.
That’s all.
A big thank you! With this tip you saved me!
Thank You so much Mr.Macintosh!! Followed this video, instructions were straight to the point. Just Installed macOS Sequoia 15.2 on my unsupported MacBook Pro (Retina, 15", Mid 2015) which was running macOS Monterey v12.7.6. Being a developer i needed the xcode15 which was incompatible with my MacBook Pro. You're video saved me from spending on another Mac. Thank You!!! God Bless.
Can I upgrade to Sequioa without making an installer disk?
2017 iMac 27" 5K, 4.2 GHz Intel i7 Kaby Lake, 24 GB RAM, 1TB internal SSPOLARIS 4x NVMe SSD as boot volume, 4TB internal Crucial SATA SSD, Radeon Pro 580 with 8 GB vram, MacOS Monterey 12.x latest
Thank you for creating this wonderful tool, I used it and successfully installed Mac OS 15 Sequoia on my 2015 iMac.
Thank you Mr. Macintosh. I tried using Migration Assistant to restore all my data from TimeMachine backup and got stuck in a reboot loop. I did the backup when I had Sonoma OCLP. After a clean install of Sequoia this occurred. Any ideas? Should System be deselected in MA when restoring?
Hello @kaiz1750. Reinstall Sequoia again. let the entire install finish. Then once everything is complete, open up the OCLP app and REVERT the root patches and reboot. Then once back on the desktop restore your backup When the TM backup is restored you can reapply the root patches.
Thank you so much Mr. Macintosh for the quick response. While reinstalling Sequoia it prompted me to restore from TM backup. I went ahead to see how it would turn out. It went fine. Afterwards I had to install EFI on the HDD. That’s all. Had that failed, I would have followed the steps you gave. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this. It is very easy to follow. You've saved our mum's Macbook and provided her a couple more years with the machine. 10/10 would recommend.
Hello, help me please! I’m having issues with the installation of Sequoia using OpenCore Legacy Patcher on my unsupported Mac Pro (MacPro6,1). I prepared the USB drive with OpenCore Legacy Patcher and successfully installed Sequoia on my Mac Pro. The installation appeared to go smoothly, so I proceeded to install it on the internal drive and ran the root patcher. After restarting, everything seemed fine, but after the third restart the next day, regardless of whether I'm actively using the system or not, the mouse pointer turns into a spinning beach ball and eventually the Mac freezes. This occurs on subsequent restarts as well. Installing Sonoma I have the same problem.
Which model of macbook pro do you have exactly? I use the mid-2010 17inch laptop. Sometimes it has issues, then others it's fine after oclp updates and configuring. Did you disable SIP from recovery mode? If not, do so by running the command 'csrutil disable' from the terminal window once in recovery mode. Then reboot and see if you can boot ok.
@@Ink_and_Motion_Studio I think the problems are coming from disabling SIP. Disabling SIP from recovery mode gives me this status which does not seem correct to me:
csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: unknown (Custom Configuration).
Configuration:
Apple Internal: disabled
Kext Signing: disabled
Filesystem Protections: disabled
Debugging Restrictions: enabled
DTrace Restrictions: enabled
NVRAM Protections: enabled
BaseSystem Verification: enabled
This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state.
Can you help me understand?
Thank you for such a great tutorial on how to install the latest macOS on an unsupported Mac. I have been watching your videos on Open Core Legacy Patcher for over 2 years now. I recently purchased an iMac Late 2013, (officially supported until macOS Catalina). Of course, most applications no longer work on this macOS, and if they do, it's the old versions. So I decided to try following your video to reinstall on macOS Sonoma 14.7.4 (not macOS 15). And I must say that doing the reinstallation on macOS Sonoma according to your very detailed tutorial was a pleasure and although I was worried that something would go wrong during the installation it didn't. I really haven't found such a detailed tutorial that explains the issue so clearly. On macOS Sonoma everything works as it should and even the speed of the computer which I thought would suffer quite a bit by reinstalling macOS Sonoma (because the computer has only 8 GB of RAM in two slots and a 1 TB HDD) is fine and in some ways I would say even faster than on the official Catalina OS. I am not planning to switch to macOS 15 yet or waiting for your video about macOS 15.3 if it is safe to switch to this macOS on an old unsupported mac. Keep releasing as great videos as you have been.
Once I get to the reboot step 10 and select sequoia it comes up with a 🚫 and won’t go further and then just restarts. iMac late 2015 with Mac OS Monterey latest update.
my problem as well
Same here. I get a flashing mouse and keyboard image.
Saw your video the other day and my Sequoia install went seamlessly on my 2013 Mac Pro which came in today!
Does iPhone mirroring work?
Updated my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012, 9,1) to Sequoia 15.0.1 with OCLP - seamless update and all running smoothly! Thanks so much for your very clear guidance, really appreciated!!
Posting success on 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 6 core X2 Processor to Sequoia 15.0.1 I did the way where you keep apps and files. This went very fast compared to my 2011 8,3 MacBook Pro. It's getting late so I have not been able to check everything. I did get some sort of Keyboard warning but It did not seem to matter :)) Thank you guys for what you are doing. Totally Awesome putting new life into these old Macs!!
Good morning, I'm trying to install Monterey and Sequoia on MACPRO 5.1 using the procedure indicated OCLP 2.0.2. At the end of the installations, when I have to restart, I hold down the ALT key to launch EFI, it freezes and nothing happens. Even for a long time. I tried and tried again many times, with Monterey and with Sequoia. Nothing to do. Thanks if you want to answer me with some indications. MacPro 4.1>5.1 - AMD RX580 Pulse - 64 GB 1333MHz OSX High Sierra 10.13.6
@@ruggerogiuliani6414 Maybe try Installing Mojave? That's what I did
@@ruggerogiuliani6414 Maybe try going to Mojave first then Open Core
@@tompittman3683 Mojave installed. Repeated the procedure as in the video. No useful results. Black screen and unable to continue. No EFI boot window to start the Monterey or Sequoia installation. Thanks
Darn, I assume you are following Mr Machitoshs 2.0 easy follow along
This is much better and saves time. Thanks a lot again for the hard work you have put in with every OCLP release. It keeps my 2012 Mac mini alive.
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!
Thanks for this video and the new format, Mr. Macintosh - I love the deep-dives you do (please keep them coming!) but appreciate this streamlined version and how quick it came out. I’m glad to say that after taking your sound advice to backup my system via Time Machine and preparing 2 USB installers (1 for Sonoma, the current MacOS that works fine, and another for new MacOS 15.0), I successfully upgraded to Sequoia on my late 2013 iMac (27-inch) with 16mb of ram. So far, everything is running smoothly and I’m enjoying the new tools and ride. (Note: In this case I upgraded via Settings rather than using an external USB installer, though I did this with some confidence having prepared a USB MacOS installer via Open-Core 2.0.1 in case the first attempt went south.) Huge thanks to you and the Open-Core developers that have given older Macs years of new life (and counting).
Did you have any issues? I have the same IMC as you with Catalina. Do you recommend upgrading to Sequoia?
@@Jaime.Guzman Hi, I've regularly updated my iMac (late 2013, 16gb ram, 480gb SSD drive, 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5) via OCLP for a few years now. While there have been a few hiccups along the way, none have been showstoppers and the current config of Sequoia 15.0 with Open Core 2.0.1 has been the smoothest setup so far. Having said that, the usual caveats apply of backing up your data with Time Machine, and creating an external usb thumb drive installer for Catalina, in case things go south, are highly recommended. Good luck!
Some of the easiest to follow videos on the topic thanks!
Superb content, everything that is needed is in there, great format, clear dialogue and big thanks for the immense effort and precision. 👍😁
Thank you @brianlinuxing7444 👍
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 !!! ;-)
Glad I could help! This is wonderful, after apple gave Monterey the boot this year, OCLP is the way 👍
@@Mr.Macintosh I have an older iMac 2015 (iMac 15,1)... is the new 2.02 Open Core Legacy Patcher fit for purpose? I saw some o fhe things that supposedly don't work well. Just wanted your thoughts ;_)
Hi Mr. Mac! I successfully upgraded from Monterey to Sequioa on 2010 MBP 7.1. I just don’t have keyboard and mouse function. However you did warn that that will happen. You also provided the work around. Thank you very much!
What was the work around? I’m scared I might get the same issue
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Thank you a lot. I was able to install successfully on mac air 2015 following your video. It gives a new life to my old MacBook ❤
thank you very much for this video, my MacAir 20212, gained a new life, and I was about to buy a new one (a lot of money saved) thank you and greetings from Poland ;-)
Thank you Mr Macintosh. New format of video is perfect to go quick for new installation (already knew the standard procedure to install but it is good to follow your instructions). Successfully updated to Sequoia on my MBP 8,1 late 2011 - fresh install. Had to reboot (power button 3s) one more time after system install as cursor frozen on screen after initial launch of Sequoia. Now running perfect.
What you are doing is fantastic. Great work. Thank you for the best instructions.
Worked great for me! My older MacBook never was so cooler. No over heating at all. Thanks
Today's OCLP 2.0.2 update fixed my problem that caused apps to crash when opening a H265/HEVC video file. I'm on MacPro 5.1 Radeon RX 580. Thank you to the developpers for the fix.
Hi. I have the same as you: 5,1 and RX580. I get a black screen after rebooting and holding alt to choose booting to the USB stick. Did you experience this when installing with your RX580 installed? Thanks.
@@dizz740 Hi, no I didn't notice any un-normal behaviour. Installed without problems. As said before, the HEVC/H265 crashs were solved wit OCLP 2.0.2
Great videos as usual. And contains all the steps you need from start to finish.
By mistake I ended up selecting Sonoma for my version instead of Sequoia, but all good still a nice update from Monterery on by Macbook Pro Retina 2012
Man, you really are a passionate person and you pass it on to us well.
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 👍
You are a star man. Just did A Fresh Install on MacBook Pro late 2012, its running soooooo smooth 😀
Installed Sequoia on my mid-2015 15inch macbook pro using OCLP, and it runs better than Sonoma!
Very concise and easy to follow tutorial.
Thank you to the open core team, I am running sanoma on older but capable machines which let me run the latest adobe products/office suite without having to buy new hardware , mainly editing and processing camera raw files,and running office crap. the increase in speed with newer hardware is just not faster enough to justify any spend at the moment, I gather the same doesn't apply to video editing, and as more AI features get added to software I will eventually have to update hardware, but you have stopped at-least 3 devices going to landfill. cheers
I found this format to be much better then your previous formats; your older versions had too many moving parts and caused a bit of confusion in having to stop your video, back the video up a bit and then forward the video to gain a clear understanding. Thx
Thank you for being such a good teacher and for always keeping up up to date!
Great Video. I just repariered a iMac 2015 with a defekt SSD and mainboard. Very useful to install a fresh Mac OS.
WORKS!! Thank you. You make it sooo easy to follow...
installed on 2015 macbook air 11inch i7 8gb..
MacBook Pro Late 2012 running Sequoia fast as ❤ Thank you Mr Macintosh for making my old model a beast 😂❤
this is the best video for beginers!!! more people make it seem so hard!
Excellent guide! And if you can believe it, I've never installed OCLP! I think I'll give it a go soon.
Oh, and love that display 😍
This worked a treat. Once I found an external drive to use (the only flash drives I had were too small), everything was pretty smooth. What a fun thing to be able to do. I have a 2013 iMac that was basically on the block to return to Apple for recycling and I thought I'd run through this for a lark. Really fun. Seems to work just fine now. Maybe it'll have some use 🙂 Very much appreciate this information and walkthrough.
How long did it take for it to update? For me, it looks like I might be stuck on one of the reboots.
Hello.I like your videos.I installed it on my iMac 2011 and every thing gone well.I now enjoy Sequoia.Thank you
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
what's a smc reset?
just installed on a 2014 Mac mini - flawless install and presentation. Many thanks!
Thank you so much. I’ve got a new 2TB SSD hard drive to install in my early 2011 17” MacBook Pro. I hope I can do this for my new Hard-drive. I’ve also installed 16GB of RAM. After these upgrade will I be able to run Adobe Photo Shop and Lightroom Classic.
Again great instructive video. Works all fine - Keep up the good work!
my 12,1 MBP 13" is now working- slightly different install path but we got there in the end ...woooohoo. thankyou for the vid!!!
Glad it’s working, keep that MBP going😀
Thank you Mr. Macintosh. May The Mighty God Bless You ! It worked on my Macbook Pro 2015 15-inch Mid 2015. But I install macOs Sonoma 14.7 instead of Sequoia with absolutely the same steps in your video.
I had a couple hiccups but it worked out in the end. Thank YOU!!
Great walk thru. Sweet and simple. Thanks for showing this to us.
Thank you @alaluke7159 !!!👍
Bravo! These instructions were clear, worked very well. A few important notes:
Use a fast disk drive for the installer. I tried with a 30 gb flash drive and it was error prone
When it’s installing, it’ll reboot a few times and you have to choose EFI boot until you get to the sequoia screen. I had to manually power down once during the reboots because it got stuck. But be patient…
I’m thankful for this guide, because now I can install the latest Xcode and use Swift 6+
Mr. Macintosh! How can anybody be THAT fast?! 😮 Thank you very much for your great work! ❤
Greetings from Italia! it was perfect my installation of Sequoia on my unsuported Mac Book air 2016. The only difference It was the fact that after Rebut is was not selected in automatic de Macintosh Internal drive but any way when i so this i selected manualy and it works perfect. I hawe now a new Mac!
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.
U legend I watched ur other video downloading Mac OS big sur and it worked a dream now installing the latest Mac OS sequoia through settings on my late 2012 iMac . Feels illegal 😂😂
Sequoia is now running smoothly on a MacBook Pro from 2014. The greatest difference from all previous macOS versions is how laggy the terminal is, it takes ages to load or to run any command.
Comment for the algo! Great video, Late 2013 iMac now on Sequoia. Disabling FileVault a must IMO.
I wonder if you know Turkish, but YOU ARE AN AMAZING PERSON...
A genius man makes other geniuses. Thank you for reviving my 2014 MacBook Air after the Big Sur update. If I find any issues, I will post them.
I just realized that yesterday, I could not share files with my Bluetooth. If there is a solution, please let me know.
hey, big fan of you Mr.Mac
This was amazing! Worked perfectly for me! Thanks so much!
Great run-through. Thank you Mr Mac!
Aquí un MacBook Pro 2012 mid, ahora mismo estoy instalado sequoia gracias a ti y tu excelente tutorial, espero que todo me salga como a ti
Thanks as always! You always come in clutch
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.
Oh glad you figured that out and thanks for letting others know!
Xcellent I need to redo this on my iMac! Thank you!
Mac mini 3,1 from 2009 working ! with Sequoia 15.0 and OCLP 2.0.2 . Then I updated OS to 15.0.1. wifi, bluetooth, usb all are working. Only for simple tasks like browsing, email, word processing etc.
I am definitely doing this on my Early 2009 Mac mini!
Great video - very comprehensible. Well done!
Great job, installed on macbook pro 13,3 2017. Thanks a lot.
In the video, the installer required around 123 GBs of storage. Best to have a 256 GB flash drive on hand. Don't have one myself . Just ordered from Amazon. Will then attempt the install of Sequoia on my 2015 Macbook Pro.
Updated from Sonoma to Sequoia on my 2010 iMac no issues, Bluetooth WiFi all working perfectly.
How did you do that sir ?
As per the video, using oclp and creating a usb installer
Does the Apple TV app work I only have audio running Sonoma iMac mid 2011.
I have an iMac 2017, Followed your steps, installed OpenCore Legacy Patcher 2.2.0 & Sequoia and double checked that all installation was done correctly.
The only problem I see so far is that the WiFi does not open automatically when I startup (I turn it on manually) and the WiFi turns off every time the screensaver activates.
Do you have a video on solving this problem?
Thanks a million!
The Viking