5 Things you Should do Before Upgrading to Monterey!

Are you ready to make the jump to macOS Monterey? I'll show you 5 things that you should check before performing a major upgrade!

How to upgrade to macOS Monterey

Chapters
0:00 Intro & Welcome
0:19 Using Apple's Documentation
0:34 Is your Mac Compatible with macOS Monterey?
1:10 Make sure your Mac has enough free space
2:42 Make sure you backup your files using Time Machine
4:37 Are your critical applications compatible with Monterey?
6:08 Make sure you have enough time to perform the upgrade
6:40 Keeping your Mac up-to-date with patches.
7:48 Thank You

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[tobyo]

Exactly what I needed to know! Just an addition if I could: you can also back-up your files via icloud. I don't know about Time Machine but I do remember that I clicked on the options for icloud back-up when I first got my Macbook Air and just double-checked to ensure everything is there before I upgrade to Monterey. Many thanks for the great information!

[hobistinyheartbag]

My early 2014 MacBook Air has suffered enough 🫠

[MRFRACOLLA]

Has anyone upgraded to Monterey on a MBP 2015? How's it performing compared to Big Sur?

[ditchcomfort]

Creative Cloud and apps like Bridge, Photoshop, etc. are working perfectly in Monterey 😊

[sonnymodiano]

I used OpenCore patcher 3.1 to upgrade 3 MacBook Pros. A 2009 13 inch, a 2010 15 inch and a 2012 15 inch. All 3 work flawlessly with Monterey. They actually seem to be running smoother and faster. Thanks for all the instructions to help make this happen.

[denniseldridge]

Hi, I just want to say that your channel is one of the most interesting and useful for my own Mac adventures. Thanks to you I was able to upgrade an early 2009 iMac, after I'd given up on it being still useful.

Now I'm going to have a crack at installing Monterey final under VMWare. I'll use tutorials for previous versions as a guide - wish me luck!

[AppleNinja]

Another great video! Thanks Mr. Macintosh. Have a great day bud!

[bobcollard]

If you are running an older Mac mini with the original HD installed, you should either change to an SSD internal or add a NVMe for the startup disk, . The older drive is running at 5000 RPM and it takes a long time to load both the installer and later the login takes forever. Mine is a Mac Mini Late 2014 and I know this from experience. Now running with a NVMe startup of 512GB. The difference is one and a half minutes versus twenty seconds from the time the Apple logo comes on screen.

[moinkhan_me]

Updating to MacOS Monterey will also delete my data or not e.g, my desktop, apps and downloads ?

[fozzd]

Can't wait for your OCLP 3.1 tutorial, thank you Mr Macintosh!

[krisswalton]

Thanks for this great video - I am glad I took the time to find out how to do it correctly!

[OttawaRocks]

Many thanks. You are super clear. Subscribed!

[stephencawker]

Are you going to do a new OCLP os monterey video on unsupported macs this weekend Mr Macintosh?..I need to see a newer easier way if possible and i need to see how to upgrade to monterey if your using patched sur ok!...tks so much...

[MrPnew]

Thanks Mr Macintosh. Have you ever done a video on your tech background at all? I am sure many of your viewers would find that interesting if you have not.

[ripe_apple]

Magnificent! Thank you Mr. Macintosh, "Simply the Best" Mr. Macintosh, for the ones that we have Big Sur with open core, and we don't want to move to Monterrey and want to keep updating Big Sur, how do we accomplish this?

[marteen]

Hi Mr Macintosh. Would you be able to show us, how to properly upgrade from an unsupported Mac (i.e. MacBook Pro late 2013) with the latest Big Sur on board, to Monterey using the newest OCLP 0.3.2 with its expanded menu? There’s lots of options, which ones should be ticked, which ticked off. I will really appreciate that.

[fintech]

after upgrade, will the storage used for the installation process be freed up?

[hudsonhoward]

Great tutorial. Very detailed and concise.

[Jayling]

Thanks so much for the tips. You know what's funny? When you showed the Creative Cloud Requirements and it didn't have Monterey listed (earlier today I had upgraded the app), I then checked the Adobe website and it now states something different than what was shown to you, "macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later", applicable for October 2021 release (version 11.0) and later. I don't know if we found different pages from Adobe or if they updated their site after you last checked. Anyway, thanks again. :)

[madvinegar]

On two macbooks (intel and M1) that were on Big Sur 11.6 I had to upgrade them first to Big Sur 11.6.1 and then to Monterey. I tried several times to upgrade them directly from Big Sur 11.6 ro Monterey and I was always getting an error. After both were upgraded to 11.6.1, the Monterey installation went on smoothly at first time. I don't know why.