my mac book air says i cant ise my apple id because my id requires 16.01 and up why is this even a thing ?

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my mac book air says i cant ise my apple id because my id requires 16.01 and up why is this even a thing ?

my mac book works perdextly fine but I can only update to 13.1 and my Apple ID wont allow me to log in bevause it’s not a 16.3 ?!?!? i find this to be complete nonsense and unruley

why is this even a thing it’s like you’re forcing me to get rid of a perfectly good computer to buy a new one..

if it’s not broke don’t fix it and my computer isn’t broke but rather it’s barred by apple for no good reason accept to make profit.. lame

Posted on Oct 11, 2023 7:47 PM

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Oct 11, 2023 8:03 PM in response to Douglyguy

What do you mean by 16.3? The latest version of macOS is macOS Sonoma (14.*). macOS 13.1 is one of the point releases of the previous major version, macOS Ventura (13.*). There is no such thing as macOS 16.3.

Any MacBook Air that can update to macOS Ventura 13.1 can update to the latest version of Ventura. Even if you have a MacBook Air that can run Ventura, but cannot run Sonoma, Ventura is one of "the most recent three" that tend to get Apple security updates, and that developers like Microsoft and Adobe require.

Are you perhaps confusing macOS High Sierra (10.13) with macOS Ventura (13)?

If you go into the About This Mac dialog in the Apple () menu, what does it say about your Mac's model name, hardware year, and version of macOS? (Just that information – no serial numbers, please.)

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