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How much longer for support for catalina?

OK i have an iMac from Late 2013 that appears not to be able to update to Big Sur Currently has Catalina OS. How much longer will apple support CatalinA?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 15, 2020 3:05 PM

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Posted on Nov 15, 2020 3:19 PM

What exactly do you mean "support", do you mean how long will it get updates? We cannot speculate on these forums, however based on past releases of Mac OS I would say until at least 2 generations after Catalina. For example, High Sierra just received it's last updates right before Big Sur was released. High Sierra is 2 generations older that Big Sur. So that would be at least another 2-3 years.

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Nov 15, 2020 3:19 PM in response to JosephHamiltonSmith

What exactly do you mean "support", do you mean how long will it get updates? We cannot speculate on these forums, however based on past releases of Mac OS I would say until at least 2 generations after Catalina. For example, High Sierra just received it's last updates right before Big Sur was released. High Sierra is 2 generations older that Big Sur. So that would be at least another 2-3 years.

How much longer for support for catalina?

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