By this point last year, Catalina was on its sixth update, with a seventh supplemental update coming soon.
#Upgrade to mojave upgrade
When forced by circumstance, I did upgrade my primary Mac to Catalina last April with no real problems (see “ Six Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD,” 27 April 2020), but Apple’s chaotic updates early in the cycle had poisoned the well for many people. I never officially recommended an upgrade to Catalina because it never felt entirely baked, even after Apple announced Big Sur. I will say that I think Big Sur has proven itself more solid than 10.15 Catalina. You don’t have to upgrade right away, but you will have to do so at some point, even if just as part of the purchase of a new Mac. The security threats that Apple addresses with updates are real, and developers continually enhance their apps to take advantage of new core capabilities that Apple builds into macOS. Honestly, though, the main reason to upgrade eventually is to stay current. And thanks in part to Apple’s acquisition of Dark Sky, the Weather widgets provide next-hour precipitation charts, severe weather alerts, and warnings of significant weather shifts. Maps gains city guides, cycling routes in a few major cities, and indoor maps of major airports and shopping centers. In Messages, you can pin favorite conversations to the top, reply directly to messages in group conversations, and search more effectively. Safari provides a customizable start page and translation capabilities. With its single column for notifications and widgets, the redesigned Notification Center may work better for you, especially with grouped notifications using space more efficiently. Big Sur’s new Control Center does a good job of consolidating numerous menu bar items into a single interface. Technology should also make life easier and support our work. Some changes will be more successful than others, but in a year or two, older versions of macOS will look dated. The user interface changes in Big Sur are a makeover the likes of which we haven’t seen in years, with Apple adding whitespace and trying to prevent the interface from distracting from your content. Why might you want to upgrade? For many people, it’s the thrill of exploring all the changes-technology should be fun. But I will say that I have upgraded with no real problems, and if you wish to upgrade, it’s generally safe to do so. So I won’t tell you that you should upgrade to Big Sur-if you choose not to, that’s entirely your prerogative.
Worse, emotions often run high when it comes to macOS upgrades, with some people viewing “different” as “bad” on principle, and Big Sur’s visual redesign is quite different. It’s a hard question to answer because everyone’s situation is different-I can’t know if you might rely on an app that doesn’t work perfectly in Big Sur. “Is it safe to upgrade yet?” That’s the question I’ve been asked repeatedly since Apple first released macOS 11 Big Sur in November 2020. Is It Safe to Upgrade to macOS 11 Big Sur? #1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down.#1664: Real system requirements for OS 2023, beware Siri creating alarms instead of timers.#1665: Important OS security updates, abusive Web notifications, solve myopia with an iPhone, Self Service Repair.
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