how to update to catalina from high sierra

Last year I installed Big Sur on an additional APFS volume on my 2013 MBP to see what the fuss was about. Biggest issue is stupid but still very annoying: you can no longer change the column widths in the Mail.app message list. I even considered installing Mojave on the Mac Mini, but after giving it a chance it wasn't that bad. I remember there were bad things about Catalina at the time that kept me from upgrading, don't remember how much more than the breaking of 32-bit apps that was. I have two MacBook Pros still on Mojave and got a Mac Mini last year that came with Catalina. Since both Catalina & Big Sur only support 64-bit apps the main penalty for me is unavoidable with either.Īnyone out there thing I should just move to Mojave?Īny tips and tricks for the upgrade? Pitfalls I should avoid? High Sierra was very stable for me and I remember Catalina catching some flack for not being stable, I see the latest Catalina release is 10.15.7 so hopefully this is solid by now. I still wanted to get some feedback on the move though. It would seem sensible to upgrade to Catalina first as I know historically Apple makes downgrading difficult. So I'm currently backing up my entire HDD to a bootable volume and going to install either Catalina or Big Sur. Some things are now starting to protest that the OS version is too old to support updates to software e.g. There were a few things like still being able to use Aperture where I have a large catalogue of organised raw photos and 1 Password version 6.86 from the App Store that I paid for (where as the upgraded version work on a subscription model). I've been running High Sierra (10.13.6) for ages on my iMac for no other reason than it works and I didn't feel like I was missing anything.

I'll go and read the Ars reviews but thought I'd post here for individual experiences also.

How to update to catalina from high sierra