| Version of the macOS operating system | |
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 Screenshot of macOS Monterey in light appearance | |
| Developer | Apple |
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| OS family | |
| Source model | Closed, with open source components |
| General availability | October 25, 2021[1] |
| Latest release | 12.7.6[2] (21H1320) (July 29, 2024) [±] |
| 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 | |
| Unsupported as of September 16, 2024. Finder is still able to download driver updates to sync to newer devices. Drops support for most Macs released from mid 2013 to 2014, including all Macs with Nvidia GPUs. | |
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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,[3][4][5][6] and released on October 25, 2021.[7][8] 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. It is the last version of macOS that can run on Macs with 4GB of RAM.
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