Can't update to Logic Pro X 10.5

Can't update to Logic Pro X 10.5

Thanks Jaro, but here's the deal:

AHA! It's that 10.13.6 and lower are not supported!

Well, that's it for Logic for me. I'm not leaving 10.13.6 anytime soon.

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1. Make sure you are running at least macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave or Catalina). HighSierra (10.13) is no longer supported.
2. Launch the Mac App Store application
3. Search for "Logic Pro"
4. You should see Logic Pro X in the first row.
   1. It has a button next to it, which should read "Update", click it.
   2. If the button says "Open", then you already have the most recent version installed.
   3. If it shows an amount, then the App Store doesn't detect a purchased version of Logic Pro tied to the current account, and offers you to buy the application. This can happen, if you bought Logic Pro with a different Apple ID. You need to log into that account (via Store menu on the top of the screen) to install the update.
   4. If the button next to Logic Pro is disabled, you might have parental control active, which limits the App Store.

Please take your tin foil hat off.

If Apple would have wanted to make more money of Logic customers, they would not have released Logic Pro 10.5 as a free upgrade. They could have simply named it Logic Pro 11 and charged another $199 for it – after 6 years of free upgrades completely reasonable. But they did not. And for many years also all macOS upgrades are free.

With the exception of potential a month overlap or so, the pro apps from Apple have never supported more than the past two macOS releases. Consumer apps and all iOS apps typically only support the most recent version of macOS/iOS.

There are only three reasons to not upgrade macOS that come to mind:

• a fear that a new version of macOS will make everything worse. In that case: do not upgrade to Logic Pro X 10.5, it was also significantly changed and probably even has some new bugs (as any complex software has)
• a very old computer, depending on the model between 7 and 10 years old, which can no longer be upgraded. At that point it feels very reasonable to cut the support off. And yes, if you really want to run software from 2020 but only own a computer made before 2013 or even 2010, then Apple "forces" you to buy a new computer. Or you simply continue to run Logic Pro 10.4.8 on that old computer – it still works.
• your choice to run older non-Apple software, which in the past couple of years have not been upgraded to support at least Mojave – potentially not even being 64-bit compatible, which has been possible for 10 years. That a vendor doesn't update their software, it not really nothing Apple can fix.

You are mentioning a computer which is not supported by Mojave because of the Metal graphics requirement. That is true for e.g. the Mac Pro before the late 2013 model. A machine which was supported with free upgrades for 7 years. And you can even buy a Metal capable GPU (BTW: and you wouldn't even give Apple money for that) and continue to use it for a bit longer with the recent version of macOS.

Hi. I'm having similar issues. It's not giving me an option to update, only an icloud symbol next to my logic X in the Appstore. I'm logged in too. Im running Logic 10.4.6 & Mojave 10.14.6 so I'm almost up to date. Have you resolved the problem?

Thanks

Yes, there seems to be some issue? I just purchased Logic Pro in August of 2019. I see other users posting that "I bought the app 7 years ago and this new update is fantastic". I've tried to open a support case, so far, no luck.

Apple is a hardware company, the relentless MacOS updates and the lack of Logic application support on High Sierra, an OS still supported by Apple (last version released less than two years ago, last update March 2020). Logic could be made to run on older machines which can no longer support lower level graphics development in Mojave/Catalina but that defeats the purpose of selling hardware.

Knew that would bring you out of the woodwork, checking out us online beta-testers.

You misread my post completely!

Apple's software has always been about selling hardware, I have no complaints, pretty Happy with 10.4.4 as it's more stable than the later versions of 10.4. I have no doubt that Logic 10.4.5 could run on earlier versions of theOS, but it's a formula, that only the last two versions of MacOS are supported.

But 10.13 is hardly any different from 10.14. Mainly a few more permission requirements. But those are handled easily, and it's worth the upgrade. For Logic Pro X update, if nothing else. It's the 10.15 upgrade that kicks your butt.

Having the same issue, the button says Upgrade, which it should NOT show since I am also on Mac OS 10.13.6 and that is unsupported I now learn.

So we found a bug.

@Apple: please fix this bug or better; make Logic 10.5 compatible with Mac OS 10.13.6, this will make a lot of people very happy.

macOS 10.14 is the minimum version to support machine learning. And indeed Logic Pro X 10.5 is using machine learning for the new features. There is probably more 10.14 stuff, but I just noticed that.

You need to check what the Mac OS version is on your machine, when it is 10.13.6 or lower, you can't upgrade Logic to 10.5,

even though you see the Logic Update button, which should NOT show because it is a bug in Mac OS.

When you have an older machine it could be that it is up-to-date (within a specific version range like Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra) etc.) but it does not support later versions of Mac OS (i.e. 10.14, 10.15 and up).

I for example have an older iMac and it does not support a higher Mac OS version than 10.13.x - so it is up-to-date but only until the latest 10.13 version, which is 10.13.6 (so not the available higher Mac OS' 10.14.x or 10.15.x - since it is not compatible with that).

On the other hand I have a newer Macbook Pro which supports 10.14 and higher. On that computer I can upgrade Logic to 10.5.

This means you're either stuck with an older machine which does not support some higher Mac OS versions or your machine does support it and you need to upgrade to 10.14 or higher.

A very useful overview of Mac models and supported OS can be found here: https://eshop.macsales.com/guides/Mac_OS_X_Compatibility

Hope this helps.

EDIT

@Jaro876: sorry missed your message before your last one.

When you have Mac OS 10.15.2 installed Logic should upgrade indeed I persume.

I am having same issues. It installed no problem with my MacBook pro mid 2014 but my mac pro 5.1, with latest Mojave 10.14.6 is just a spinning ball when I try to update. Then the update disappears in the update pane until I reboot the mac. Then update available appears again.. It did say "update" and not "open". ..... Help!

I can't even find an option to update it. I go to the app store. It says I have no updates available. I search Logic Pro. It doesn't give me an update option. I do not have the latest version, so I'm not sure what the issue is.

Well I just realized I won't be able to update to the latest Logic X 10.5 because my 2011 MacBook Pro, which runs great with a new SSD 1T and 16gig RAM, can't upgrade past 10.13.6 macOS High Sierra .. BS I was really looking forward to this version of Logic. Now I feel used and might have to go with Ableton Live after all..