Can Installing Mojave in place of pre-installed Catalina work on 2020 MacBook Pro 13" with 10th Gen Intel CPU?

I'm asking because Catalina is known to have annoying things like gatekeeper popup when an app is updated in the background.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Jun 10, 2020 3:58 PM

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dialabrain

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Jun 10, 2020 4:23 PM in response to LouisCAD

No. You can't install an earlier version of macOS than what your machine shipped with.

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