WithmacOS Sonoma , Apple is adding a master of ceremonies of great new features like desktop widgets , new video conferencing features , Game Mode , young privacy and security feature , and much more . But if your Mac is erstwhile than five years old , you probably wo n’t be able to run it .
Apple ended support for a lot of older Macs with the update tomacOS Ventura , and with Sonoma , a few of the 2017 models are on the chop blockage . Find out the recent reading of macOS your Mac can escape in our separatemacOS compatibility guide .
Mac’s that run macOS Sonoma
These are the Macs on which you ’ll be able to run macOS Sonoma .
The list is very similar to that for macOS Ventura , but while that version supported iMacs and MacBooks from 2017 , only the iMac Pro from that year is support by macOS Sonoma . Here’show to establish macOS Sonoma .
macOS Sonoma features that require newer Macs
While the list of Macs supported by macOS Sonoma extends back five years , a few feature require Modern hardware . The Presenter Overlay video conferencing feature involve a Mac with Apple Silicon . Hand reactions necessitate using either the built - in photographic camera on a Mac with Apple Silicon , or any Mac when using Continuity Camera with an iPhone 12 or subsequently .
Macs that won’t run macOS Sonoma
Ventura supported the following Macs that macOS Sonoma does n’t :
Apple is likely to keep on to endure these Macs in the form of securityupdates to Venturafor a footling while longer . The company usually provides documentation for the past three versions of the Mac operating system . See : How long does Apple support Macs?That would indicate that these Macs will lose support in the next two or so years though , so it would be wise to update them before that time .
