So 2009 iMac Owner here, recently upgraded to Sequoia from Catalina that was patched with OCL. I can tell you they did an amazing job putting this together. the patcher worked perfectly the entire process was WAY easier than when I set up OCLP with Catalina 3 years ago. The ONLY issue I have found is MASSIVE RAM usage. Your machine will be a noticeably slower, but if you remember this is not your 20 core 40 thread Xeon in there and that 8 GB of RAM is not much these days you won't have many other issues. If my old girl with DDR3 and Intel Core 2 DUO can do it yours can too! Not sure if there is any code to be written that could help eliminate background processes.
@@jeremypilot1015 my internal drive failed years ago so I’ve just been booting from an external ssd. I’ve got the i7 quad core with 32gb ram. Do you think it would be slow?
Why do people on NON supported macs rush to update as bleeding edge first day testers, only to discover they then have issues. Always best to wait a couple of weeks to see what gets broken. OCLP team are working hard to test things, so we don't have to.
I'm staying on Sonoma, I try to wait at least 3 months up to 6 months for a more stable release, MacOS Tiger back in the day didn't give me a single bug using it for years, very different today, kernal seems to be the only stable part..
I did on my 12,1 imac. OCLP had trouble downloading a KDK update while 15.01 itself was downloading but I let it go ahead. On reboot after installing 15.01, no root patches were applied. Wifi wasn't working, and since OCLP still needed that KDK update I had to plug my iphone into the machine to get wifi tethering to work so I could download the OCLP update and get those root patches I needed. After all that everything was ok
Many thanks for your comprehensive information. I will wait for Sequoia 15.1 because my Mac’s running well with OC LP and I don’t see any benefit in updating my system.
@@RetroPC-vy3kt That's not how it works. Security content is usually published later to give users time to install the update before potential attackers can deduce details about the vulnerabilities from the published security notes. So, you should always assume that there are security issues fixed, as most often there are.
@@mm8276352 Nope, why take the risk, unless you are taking risks in your use case. With reasonable care nothing should be that important to rush updating on the release day or soon after. We are not talking about zero day exploits, they would be dealt with fast. I'm talking about the general user/enthusiast on unsupported mac hardware.
Not an enterprise user. On my M1 pro max keyboard screen zoom broken (it would freeze the screen) but 15.0.1 fixes it. Not seen this documented anywhere.
I don't know why but since around august 2023, every x.1 updates (like 15.0.1, or 14.1.1 etc) I have to reboot my mac manually in the middle of the update process and when I reboot, the update continue normally. The strange thing is it don't happens on major updates or the .1 updates (like 14.1, 14.2 or 15.0). I'm on a 2020 iMac, no problems at all on my computer except this stringe issue.
I'm on Mac OS Monterey on a 2012 Mac Pro. Since I have 4 SSDs in the system (on two PCIe Cards) I will be adding Sonoma to the boot options soon to see how it goes, but no way I will put Sequoia on it until the OCLP team say it is solid. I use this system to get work done so I need a reasonable level of stability.
I'm holding off until 15.1. Not any real specific reason, but I just feel more comfortable updating after a little more time has gone by. I don't really have a need for the upgrade (currently on Sonoma 14.7). I am looking forward to the different window tiling, actually. I think that'll be a nice feature for me. Thanks, as always, for the great, informative content.
M2 Mac mini, I updated to Sequoia, and had multiple hangs and issues, safari was slower too, reverted back to Sonoma, I'll only update if it gets to 15.2 or 3
There seems to be an issue with Sequoia on OCLP machines where *remote* trackers tracked through the Find My network don't update their position, ever. Two people on the OCLP discord (in addition to myself) have observed the same behaviour. :(
Couple strange things since updating: 2019 MAC Mini (supported): Update took ~:25 minutes. During update, got a green screen before the "9 minutes remaining" screen during install. 2013-2019 MacPro Trashcan: ~1 hour as usual, including post install root patching. Sluggish mouse/keyboard after update was gone. Got a "Welcome to MAC" screen after update and had to enter my iCloud password. After login, mouse didn't work, and it automatically logged me out and I had to log in again. Seems to work fine now. Both machines have been unable to use SMS Messages for ~ the last week. Initially worked after 15.0. Also, neither machine was able to use iPhone Mirroring, and gave me a "not supported" error trying to connect to my iPhone 15 ProMax. After 15.01, the MacMini was able to connect. The TrashCan still cannot. I tried turning bluetooth and wifi on and off, restarted the phone, etc.. Still will not connect.
Hi there! Great job as usual Gary! I’m running Sequoia on my mid 2011 IMac with OCLP 2.0.2 and I’m having issues with Pages and Numbers! I can’t use them! The application shuts down! What should I do?? Cheers
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro initially with High Sierra. It got patched with OCLP and Monterey and the upgraded that to Sonoma and now I am using Sequioa. Everything is running fine except the Maps. All that gives me is the border but does not show the streets. Also, I have noticed when I tried to download 3 different apps and they indicated 0kb being downloaded.
I downloaded "your" 15.0.1 installer for my 14,2 27" Mac as well as the new matching metallib package, which I installed first. After updating to Sequoia 15.0.1. I patched with OCLP 2.0.2 but it seemed to still use the metallib package for 15.0. So I deleted that from the Dortania directory and patched again. This time it used the correct and only one available on my machine. I wonder whether this was the correct procedure and if you can please tell us something about this next time i.e. if and when to delete the previous metallib packge, etc. Thank you so much for you extraordinary efforts.
My Sequoia update from Sonoma caused the display to go off, but the sound was still on. 2011 iMac27 with Open Core 2.02. This was happening randomly, watching RUclips video the screen would suddenly go black but the sound was still running. The graphics card is a Quadro K1100M (flashed by Nick)v 2 GB, and I have 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM installed. This does not happen on Windows 11 in Bootcamp, so it's not a hardware issue I assume. Having done the post instal root patch 3 times now, the problem seems to have gone away for now so maybe the drivers were not loading correctly during boot up.
I also has 2011 iMac 27" with upgraded graphic card, upon updating to 15.0.1 from 15.0, the update couldn't be triggered. Before that, while doing icloud sync, the computer went intor recovery mode and it caused me a lot of headaches but finally I could go back to 15.0. I have never experienced that icloud sync go to recvoery by itself. The next day, update can be brought to be screen but I couldn't initiate it.
I have upgraded to Sequoia and I have not encountered any significant issues. There was a problem with the mouse releasing from click-down before I released the button! This seemed to be a common problem, and the fix I tried worked. It seemed to be more of needing to re-set parameters, I have been alerted to an issue with voice-over by a [blind] friend with it reading the whole screen, including menus and submenus, rather than the selected text. I found it cleared when I deselected that option under Accessibility, and then re-selected it, but doing that is not easy if you are blind! I do not know if that has been fixed with 15.0.1 as he hadn't tested it when I saw him this morning/
Hi Mr Mac, great content as always. I have a Late 2012 iMac running 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2 GB that was running Ventura without any problems, so decided to upgrade to macOS Sequoia last week and so far i haven`t had any problems, everything running great. Many Thanks. Mike 👍🍻
I upgraded to Sequoia then I started having connection issues. My internet was up and running but my Mac Mini was not able to access and websites. I was unable to access my synology or proxmox server. Also, after installing Sequoia I was not able to restore my files and folder using Time Machine it was in a restart loop to finish the restore.
i have imac and mbp and was updated and running ventura via OCLP .. did try to update to sonoma and sequoia ..... oh my what a mistake !!!!!! .. issues with wifi and bt and sluggishness ... and have to painstakingly downgrade back to ventura .. never again .....
Hey Mr. Macintosh, I have two MBP running 15.0.1 and I am having problems using the Move Window feature. Neither laptop can tab windows left and right to half the screen. Can you confirm if this works on your Intel machines running 15.0.1? Mine are a 5'3 and 7'1 MBP versions.
I've had this issue after installations. Do a hard reboot to get both the name/ password prompts. Also, if you're on a very old iMac like my 2009, you'll need to have a USB 1.1 hardwired keyboard / mouse on hand until you can do the post-install root patches.
OCLP needs to add support to wifi cards I upgrade to Sequoia from Ventura and the wifi card is not recognized. Macpro 5,1. Boot back to Ventura wifi works!!! Same machine. I CAN'T apply the modern wiriless patches cuz again Sequoia don't recognized the wifi card chips set 360CD. Weird cuz If I connect the very old Legacy wifi card that the machine had the Legacy patches does apply and the card works but no airdrop, hasoff,
When I did this and created the install usb, for some reason after booing into the usb I was seeing reinstall Mac OS Sequoia instead of install and needed an Internet connection which couldn't be connected
I have difficulty updating 2012 iMac to 15.0.1 from 15.0. Update is very difficult to brought up and when it appears I cannot update by clicking the update button. Any thoughts or similar experience ? Also MBP 13,3 15" is having battery issues when I tries to update to 15.0.1. Any possibility of buying a new battery and DIY replacement. Battery cycle is less than 150 but I think the MBP is showing
Has anyone done this on a 2011 MacBook Pro? Did everything work out well? How is it working? Alguém ja fez no MacBook Pro 2011? Deu tudo certo, como está o funcionamento?
Anyone else have a massive update file? On my intel mac, the 15.0.1 update file is 14.45GB - almost like it wants to reinstall Sequoia from scratch. Help!
I think this is "normal" when doing this on an unsupported Mac. At least, that's my experience. For some reason it does need to reinstall Sequoia from scratch.
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Golden rule of any OS upgrade, never use anything less than a .1 release in a production environment. Fine for testing but nothing more.
I always update as soon as the updates are released.
@@JoesephBidon Your risk, up to you but not the best for most people.
So 2009 iMac Owner here, recently upgraded to Sequoia from Catalina that was patched with OCL. I can tell you they did an amazing job putting this together. the patcher worked perfectly the entire process was WAY easier than when I set up OCLP with Catalina 3 years ago. The ONLY issue I have found is MASSIVE RAM usage. Your machine will be a noticeably slower, but if you remember this is not your 20 core 40 thread Xeon in there and that 8 GB of RAM is not much these days you won't have many other issues. If my old girl with DDR3 and Intel Core 2 DUO can do it yours can too! Not sure if there is any code to be written that could help eliminate background processes.
I've done same to my iMac 9,1. Mine has 24 GB though and is verrrrrry slow.
Do you guys run on SSD drives ? I’m using a 2013 iMac on Catalina and have been watching these videos for awhile, not sure if should pull the trigger
@@chrisryan8894 I did swap out the original hard drive for a faster SATA drive.
@@chrisryan8894 I can tell you that things work better, but slower. Noticeably slower.
@@jeremypilot1015 my internal drive failed years ago so I’ve just been booting from an external ssd. I’ve got the i7 quad core with 32gb ram. Do you think it would be slow?
Why do people on NON supported macs rush to update as bleeding edge first day testers, only to discover they then have issues. Always best to wait a couple of weeks to see what gets broken. OCLP team are working hard to test things, so we don't have to.
Curiosity (kills the Mac)...😼
I like how “Microsoft Defender“ can sound like “Microsoft Offender."
MBP mid-2012 updated to 15.0.1 with no issues. These videos are great!
I am on macOS 15.1 beta 5 on MacBook pro 2017, the infamous touch bar 15-inch version with oclp 2.0.2 and still going strong ....
I'm staying on Sonoma, I try to wait at least 3 months up to 6 months for a more stable release, MacOS Tiger back in the day didn't give me a single bug using it for years, very different today, kernal seems to be the only stable part..
I did on my 12,1 imac. OCLP had trouble downloading a KDK update while 15.01 itself was downloading but I let it go ahead. On reboot after installing 15.01, no root patches were applied. Wifi wasn't working, and since OCLP still needed that KDK update I had to plug my iphone into the machine to get wifi tethering to work so I could download the OCLP update and get those root patches I needed. After all that everything was ok
I had been having troubles with Maps being unable to compute a route. Fixed with this update. 😀
I have a macbook pro 2013. I installed sequoia and its working great with OCLP 🙂
Did you migrate from sonoma on 100 percent clean drive, mine seems to get stuck on the last step….1 hour ..huffing and puffing.
@@q13491 No I updated on my existing installation, and I had no problems with either update.
Many thanks for your comprehensive information. I will wait for Sequoia 15.1 because my Mac’s running well with OC LP and I don’t see any benefit in updating my system.
This is the way.
Don't do these titles, please. Of course you should. It's a security update. Install it.
If a less teechnically incliined person experienced the issues I had installing it, they might be upset..
There are no security updates, did you not watch the video? 99% of people are not in the enterprise demographic.
@@RetroPC-vy3kt That's not how it works. Security content is usually published later to give users time to install the update before potential attackers can deduce details about the vulnerabilities from the published security notes. So, you should always assume that there are security issues fixed, as most often there are.
@@mm8276352 Nope, why take the risk, unless you are taking risks in your use case. With reasonable care nothing should be that important to rush updating on the release day or soon after. We are not talking about zero day exploits, they would be dealt with fast. I'm talking about the general user/enthusiast on unsupported mac hardware.
For those on OCLP, I updated to 15.0.1 on my Late 2014 Mac mini, no issues
Not an enterprise user. On my M1 pro max keyboard screen zoom broken (it would freeze the screen) but 15.0.1 fixes it. Not seen this documented anywhere.
I don't know why but since around august 2023, every x.1 updates (like 15.0.1, or 14.1.1 etc) I have to reboot my mac manually in the middle of the update process and when I reboot, the update continue normally. The strange thing is it don't happens on major updates or the .1 updates (like 14.1, 14.2 or 15.0). I'm on a 2020 iMac, no problems at all on my computer except this stringe issue.
Me too. 2015 iMac.
I'm on Mac OS Monterey on a 2012 Mac Pro. Since I have 4 SSDs in the system (on two PCIe Cards) I will be adding Sonoma to the boot options soon to see how it goes, but no way I will put Sequoia on it until the OCLP team say it is solid. I use this system to get work done so I need a reasonable level of stability.
At 3:41 you misstate the build version saying "23" instead of "24". FYI. I'm running 15 on a mid-2012 MBP, so far so good.
I'm holding off until 15.1. Not any real specific reason, but I just feel more comfortable updating after a little more time has gone by. I don't really have a need for the upgrade (currently on Sonoma 14.7). I am looking forward to the different window tiling, actually. I think that'll be a nice feature for me. Thanks, as always, for the great, informative content.
M2 Mac mini, I updated to Sequoia, and had multiple hangs and issues, safari was slower too, reverted back to Sonoma, I'll only update if it gets to 15.2 or 3
Did you use Open Core patcher or no ?
There seems to be an issue with Sequoia on OCLP machines where *remote* trackers tracked through the Find My network don't update their position, ever. Two people on the OCLP discord (in addition to myself) have observed the same behaviour. :(
It has enabled phone mirroring in the UK which wasn't available on my new Macbook Air.
Couple strange things since updating:
2019 MAC Mini (supported): Update took ~:25 minutes. During update, got a green screen before the "9 minutes remaining" screen during install.
2013-2019 MacPro Trashcan: ~1 hour as usual, including post install root patching. Sluggish mouse/keyboard after update was gone. Got a "Welcome to MAC" screen after update and had to enter my iCloud password. After login, mouse didn't work, and it automatically logged me out and I had to log in again. Seems to work fine now.
Both machines have been unable to use SMS Messages for ~ the last week. Initially worked after 15.0. Also, neither machine was able to use iPhone Mirroring, and gave me a "not supported" error trying to connect to my iPhone 15 ProMax. After 15.01, the MacMini was able to connect. The TrashCan still cannot. I tried turning bluetooth and wifi on and off, restarted the phone, etc.. Still will not connect.
Hi there! Great job as usual Gary! I’m running Sequoia on my mid 2011 IMac with OCLP 2.0.2 and I’m having issues with Pages and Numbers! I can’t use them! The application shuts down! What should I do?? Cheers
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro initially with High Sierra. It got patched with OCLP and Monterey and the upgraded that to Sonoma and now I am using Sequioa. Everything is running fine except the Maps. All that gives me is the border but does not show the streets. Also, I have noticed when I tried to download 3 different apps and they indicated 0kb being downloaded.
I downloaded "your" 15.0.1 installer for my 14,2 27" Mac as well as the new matching metallib package, which I installed first. After updating to Sequoia 15.0.1. I patched with OCLP 2.0.2 but it seemed to still use the metallib package for 15.0. So I deleted that from the Dortania directory and patched again. This time it used the correct and only one available on my machine. I wonder whether this was the correct procedure and if you can please tell us something about this next time i.e. if and when to delete the previous metallib packge, etc. Thank you so much for you extraordinary efforts.
Where did you get the info on how long each update took please ?
Installed on imac late 2015 no issue for me.. only need to repatch
My Sequoia update from Sonoma caused the display to go off, but the sound was still on. 2011 iMac27 with Open Core 2.02. This was happening randomly, watching RUclips video the screen would suddenly go black but the sound was still running. The graphics card is a Quadro K1100M (flashed by Nick)v 2 GB, and I have 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM installed. This does not happen on Windows 11 in Bootcamp, so it's not a hardware issue I assume. Having done the post instal root patch 3 times now, the problem seems to have gone away for now so maybe the drivers were not loading correctly during boot up.
I also has 2011 iMac 27" with upgraded graphic card, upon updating to 15.0.1 from 15.0, the update couldn't be triggered. Before that, while doing icloud sync, the computer went intor recovery mode and it caused me a lot of headaches but finally I could go back to 15.0. I have never experienced that icloud sync go to recvoery by itself. The next day, update can be brought to be screen but I couldn't initiate it.
I have upgraded to Sequoia and I have not encountered any significant issues. There was a problem with the mouse releasing from click-down before I released the button! This seemed to be a common problem, and the fix I tried worked. It seemed to be more of needing to re-set parameters, I have been alerted to an issue with voice-over by a [blind] friend with it reading the whole screen, including menus and submenus, rather than the selected text. I found it cleared when I deselected that option under Accessibility, and then re-selected it, but doing that is not easy if you are blind! I do not know if that has been fixed with 15.0.1 as he hadn't tested it when I saw him this morning/
Hi Mr Mac, great content as always. I have a Late 2012 iMac running 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2 GB that was running Ventura without any problems, so decided to upgrade to macOS Sequoia last week and so far i haven`t had any problems, everything running great. Many Thanks. Mike 👍🍻
I upgraded to Sequoia then I started having connection issues. My internet was up and running but my Mac Mini was not able to access and websites. I was unable to access my synology or proxmox server. Also, after installing Sequoia I was not able to restore my files and folder using Time Machine it was in a restart loop to finish the restore.
i have imac and mbp and was updated and running ventura via OCLP .. did try to update to sonoma and sequoia ..... oh my what a mistake !!!!!! .. issues with wifi and bt and sluggishness ... and have to painstakingly downgrade back to ventura .. never again .....
Hey Mr. Macintosh, I have two MBP running 15.0.1 and I am having problems using the Move Window feature. Neither laptop can tab windows left and right to half the screen. Can you confirm if this works on your Intel machines running 15.0.1? Mine are a 5'3 and 7'1 MBP versions.
I haven’t updated yet, but my Mac is stuck at startup, not sure why. How to fix it?
What ever happened to the video for 15.0 itself? Did I miss it somehow?
Hello, I found a problem when updating. The keyboard does not work. I cannot type the password to enter.
I've had this issue after installations. Do a hard reboot to get both the name/ password prompts. Also, if you're on a very old iMac like my 2009, you'll need to have a USB 1.1 hardwired keyboard / mouse on hand until you can do the post-install root patches.
OCLP needs to add support to wifi cards I upgrade to Sequoia from Ventura and the wifi card is not recognized. Macpro 5,1. Boot back to Ventura wifi works!!! Same machine. I CAN'T apply the modern wiriless patches cuz again Sequoia don't recognized the wifi card chips set 360CD. Weird cuz If I connect the very old Legacy wifi card that the machine had the Legacy patches does apply and the card works but no airdrop, hasoff,
When I did this and created the install usb, for some reason after booing into the usb I was seeing reinstall Mac OS Sequoia instead of install and needed an Internet connection which couldn't be connected
I’ve been having a problem with Microsoft Word after I updated to 15.0 it keeps on crashing every time I try to run it. Any suggestions?
I have difficulty updating 2012 iMac to 15.0.1 from 15.0. Update is very difficult to brought up and when it appears I cannot update by clicking the update button. Any thoughts or similar experience ? Also MBP 13,3 15" is having battery issues when I tries to update to 15.0.1. Any possibility of buying a new battery and DIY replacement. Battery cycle is less than 150 but I think the MBP is showing
i am facing heating issues with 15.0.1. facing issues while using RUclips
Has anyone done this on a 2011 MacBook Pro? Did everything work out well? How is it working?
Alguém ja fez no MacBook Pro 2011? Deu tudo certo, como está o funcionamento?
SSH? What issues?
Anyone else have a massive update file? On my intel mac, the 15.0.1 update file is 14.45GB - almost like it wants to reinstall Sequoia from scratch. Help!
I think this is "normal" when doing this on an unsupported Mac. At least, that's my experience. For some reason it does need to reinstall Sequoia from scratch.
i'm going back to windows
Bye!
@@RetroPC-vy3kt bye iSheep
@@cant_sleeeep LOL! I have an old late 2012 mac mini my only ever mac, but my main is Windows 11, my old phone an android, hardly a sheep.
Back to Windblows? What does all this have to do with updating a 12 year old computer? You're dissatisfied with it's lifespan?