When Apple releases main updates to its working techniques, we right here at Macworld often advise folks to carry off for a number of days earlier than putting in, simply in case. Although this time, following the discharge of macOS Tahoe final Monday, we didn’t really feel as cautious as we did up to now, as a result of the betas have been actually secure. Nevertheless it seems like we must always’ve heeded our outdated recommendation.
The Apple Help Neighborhood has a thread concerning the M3 Extremely Mac Studio and customers who can’t set up macOS Tahoe. In lots of situations, customers run the set up and every part appears to maneuver alongside properly, however when the Mac reboots (which is required when updating macOS), the system launches into macOS Sequoia, not Tahoe.
Ken Gruberman, who writes The Tech Daddy Substack, encountered this downside when trying to put in Tahoe on his personal M3 Extremely Mac Studio. He instructed me by way of e-mail that he spent the “higher half” of a day attempting to do the set up within the inner SSD, in addition to on an exterior drive.
Gruberman and the Apple Help postings level out that the problematic Mac Studios had Sequoia 15.7 put in; Sequoia 15.7 was launched on Monday, together with Tahoe. Evidently in the course of the set up, Tahoe is in search of a driver however fails to search out it, leading to a failed set up. Different posts within the thread state that different methods of performing an set up (reminiscent of in Protected Mode or with an installer on an exterior USB drive) additionally failed.
A publish within the thread states that Apple Help Europe is conscious of the issue and is engaged on a repair. Apple PR was contacted for remark and didn’t reply on the time of this posting.
If the difficulty is certainly tied to the Sequoia 15.7 replace, that might clarify the way it was not caught earlier than each updates have been launched. Apple typically follows up main releases with level updates to repair these points. M3 Extremely Mac Studio homeowners who up to date to Sequoia 15.7 and haven’t up to date to Tahoe but ought to wait till such an replace is on the market. Customers who tried to do the set up however failed can take some solace in that the Mac reverts to Sequoia and continues to be usable.