Its official: your Intel Mac wont get macOS 27, with macOS Tahoe 26 marking the end of an era

Date:
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:29:50 +0000

Description:
Got a Mac with an Intel CPU? Even if youre fortunate enough to have support for macOS Tahoe 26, youll be out of luck with macOS 27.

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been confirmed that Intel Macs wont be supported with macOS 27 Only four Mac models with Intel CPUs are supported by macOS Tahoe anyway, but thatll be the final upgrade for those machines Those devices will at least receive security updates for a further three years

If youve got a Mac with an Intel CPU, we now know that macOS Tahoe 26 is the end of the line for your device (assuming that it supports macOS 26 in the first place, and you can check that here ).

TechRadar can confirm that information on Intel compatibility was provided at the WWDC Platforms State of the Union keynote, and macOS Tahoe will be the last version of Apples desktop OS to support any Mac with an Intel processor.

Another way of putting this is that when macOS 27 arrives next year, it will only support Macs with Apple chips inside.

However, while Intel Macs that can run macOS Tahoe 26 will be stuck with that operating system, those machines will continue to get security updates for a further three years. Analysis: That rushed out the door feeling (Image
credit: Future)

I had an inkling this might be coming , but I wasnt fully convinced that Apple would actually push ahead and do this or, perhaps more to the point, exclude MacBooks from as recently as 2020 with macOS Tahoe 26. It does feel like this hardware is being shoved out of the exit door a little hastily.

In fact, only a small number of Macs with Intel CPUs are good to go with
macOS Tahoe: the MacBook Pro 16-inch from 2019 , MacBook Pro 13-inch from
2020 but only the higher-end model with four ports (not the entry-level laptop with two ports) along with the Mac Pro from 2019, and iMac 27-inch from 2020 .

Those Macs may be good for now, but they wont get macOS 27, which will likely be announced and released next year, although at least they have a guarantee of three years of security updates going forward, to protect them against vulnerabilities popping up in the operating system that might be exploited.

So, those devices will be covered for updates until late in 2029 (assuming
the three years start from the release of macOS 27), which is nine or 10
years of updates in total. And to be fair, thats in line with the coverage Microsoft has provided with Window 10, which has had a decade of support
(that ends in October , of course).

Of course, that wasnt just security updates, but also new features, although the additions made to Windows 10 have been few and far between in recent
times but theyve still kept coming.

Microsoft is facing its own controversy with Windows 11 upgrades , though,
and the steeper hardware requirements that Windows 10 users face. You might also like... macOS Tahoe 26: heres everything we know about the release date, compatibility and all the new features How to download the macOS 26 Tahoe developer beta Microsoft accused of tech extortion over Windows 10 support ending, by campaign urging people to upgrade to Linux



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/mac-os/its-official-your-intel-mac-wont-ge t-macos-27-with-macos-tahoe-26-marking-the-end-of-an-era


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