I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro Retina 13 using El Capitan 10.11.6. Im trying to upgrade the OS to High Sierra or newer. I have clicked the links to the OS upgrades that have been provided in answers to other peoples' questions. Nothing happens. It takes me to a blank page on the apple website. Are the servers down? What is wrong?
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
They broke the links. The work-around for the very short term is to use these:
Copy/Pasting one of these into the Safari address bar is said to work…
macappstore://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-big-sur/id1526878132?mt=12
macappstore://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-catalina/id1466841314?mt=12
macappstore://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828?mt=12
macappstore://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12
They broke the links. The work-around for the very short term is to use these:
Copy/Pasting one of these into the Safari address bar is said to work…
macappstore://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-big-sur/id1526878132?mt=12
macappstore://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-catalina/id1466841314?mt=12
macappstore://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828?mt=12
macappstore://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12
Try to download macOS hight sierra from here
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683
or use this other method just scroll down and find macOS High Sierra https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-download-macos-catalina-mojave-or-high-sierra-full-installers/
... just for completeness, the original links in the article are said to be working now, so If anyone reading this sees otherwise, let readers here know about it. (They were doing a major re-organization and clobbered those links, now fixed.)
The support.apple.com link takes me to the page I've seen before in other answers. None of the links work for me. I've tried High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur. They all take me to another Apple page that is blank. The tab at the top says @@softwareName@@ on the App store. I included a pic of my tabs.
I will try the other link for mrmacintosh.
This fixed my problem! I was able to upgrade from El Capitan to High Sierra. I copied and pasted the link in the safari address bar. Thank you so much! So far everything seems to be working great!
Why can't I upgrade macbook OS from EL Capitan to High Sierra or Newer?
