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macOS Monterey
Version of the macOS operating system
Screenshot of macOS Monterey in light appearance
Developer
Apple Inc.
OS family
Macintosh
Unix, based on Darwin (BSD)
Source model
Closed, with open source components
General availability
October 25, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-10-25)[1]
Latest release
12.7.4[2] (21H1123)[3] (March 7, 2024; 49 days ago (2024-03-07)) [±]
Update method
Software Update
Platforms
x86-64, ARM64
Kernel type
Hybrid (XNU)
License
Proprietary software with open-source components and content licensed with APSL
Preceded by
macOS Big Sur
Succeeded by
macOS Ventura
Official website
www.apple.com/macos/monterey at the Wayback Machine (archived 2022-10-18)
Tagline
High powered meets "Hi everyone."
Support status
Receiving security updates. Drops support for most Macs released from mid 2013 to 2014, including all Macs with Nvidia GPUs.
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Applications
App Store
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Calendar
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Mail
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Music
Notes
Notification Center
Photo Booth
Podcasts
Photos
Preview
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Safari (version history)
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Utilities
Activity Monitor
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Help Viewer
Image Capture
Installer
Keychain Access
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Related
Classic Mac OS
Copland
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macOS Monterey (version 12) is the eighteenth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. The successor to macOS Big Sur, it was announced at WWDC 2021 on June 7, 2021,[4][5][6][7] and released on October 25, 2021.[8][9] macOS Monterey was succeeded by macOS Ventura, which was released on October 24, 2022.
The operating system is named after Monterey Bay, continuing the trend of releases named after California locations since 2013's 10.9 Mavericks.
macOS Monterey is the final version of macOS that supports the 2015–2017 MacBook Air, Retina MacBook Pro, 2014 Mac Mini, 2015 iMac and cylindrical Mac Pro, as its successor, macOS Ventura, drops support for those models.
^Clover, Juli (October 25, 2021). "Apple Releases macOS Monterey With AirPlay to Mac, Live Text, Safari Updates, Shortcuts App and More". MacRumors. Archived from the original on October 25, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
^Clover, Juli (March 7, 2024). "Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.4". MacRumors. Retrieved March 7, 2024. There's also a macOS 13.6.5 release for those who are still running macOS Ventura and a macOS 12.7.4 release for those who have macOS Monterey installed.
^"Apple security releases". March 7, 2024.
^Griffin, Andrew (June 7, 2021). "MacOS Monterey: Apple launches new operating system for Mac". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
^Clark, Mitchell (June 7, 2021). "macOS Monterey lets you run Shortcuts and share input and files between Macs and iPads". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
^Rayome, Alison DeNisco. "MacOS Monterey is on the way: Apple previewed MacOS 12 at WWDC and gave it a name". CNET. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
^WWDC 2021 — June 7 | Apple, archived from the original on 2021-11-01, retrieved 2021-11-02
^Fathi, Sami (October 18, 2021). "Apple Releasing macOS Monterey on October 25". MacRumors. Archived from the original on October 18, 2021. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
^"Here's When You Can Download macOS Monterey Today [Update: It's Out!]". MacRumors. Archived from the original on 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
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