i want update to big sur from catalina but in the settings i see that "update not found the requested version of macos is not available". What can i do? please help!!!
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Apple has been experiencing heavy server loads yesterday and today that caused one of the developer download checks to experience problems. The end result is the error you're getting. Everyone was getting this yesterday. Some still today. I assume you're using the standard software update: Apple > About this Mac > Software Update? Eventually you won't get this error. They're working on it (per AppleCare phone call).
If you don't want to keep trying it every few hours to see when they fix it, try just downloading the update from the App Store directly. I did that last night and it worked fine. Keep in mind:
Here's the App Store link to Big Sur: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-big-sur/id1526878132?mt=12
Let me know if this works for you.
Hope this helps!
so what can i do?(
when I clicked on your link, I was taken to the app store. I clicked the " get " button, the settings opened and the same problem came out. I hope Apple will fix this.
I have tried all options without successes. Please advice if anyone any suggestions.
Any help from anyone here is really appreciated!
same problem with my mid 2014 mp model. does any one found any solution?
This is precisely what happened to me. Did you have any luck fixing it?
No, as of now no luck. Looks like new OS is supported
! Downloading . . . .
Hopefully I'll be back reporting positive results.
Worked for me!
Thank you!!!
Hi, how did you download it to begin with? did it just work? i have a MacBook pro mid 2014 soo it should work x
Thanks alot. This solution worked for me. Successfully downloaded and working very smoothly on macbook pro mid 2014
Finally, Apple re-released Big Sur for older Macs.
My Macbook Pro Mid 2014 is not updated successfully.
Regards,
Sam
I have the same issue now, in 2020. All day long same message. Any idea?
Update server being busy is no excuse - I can download any other piece of software from it. Make more connections available. Christ you profit enough!
I was having problems like you describe when trying to download Big Sur over my wifi dongle. Several times it took hours to download and then failed. I was lucky to be able to download it in a café which had a fast fibre connection to the internet (but the final stage was over wifi to my laptop). It took about ten minutes to download. The installation took longer but I didn't need a connection to do that.
From comments, it seems that some think about "downloading" and "installing" as the same thing. I think I was confusing them too. They are not.
Update not found the requested version of macOS is not available Big Sur
