Update to macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 does not download. It stays in the beginning of the download and never progresses. I tried to restart the notebook, connect to a diferent wifi or cable connection and yet it remains on this status. The same thing happened with version 26.4. Any help?
MacBook Pro 14″
maherescu wrote:
No antivirus here, no vpn and 300gb of free space :(
There are factors:
Some which are beyond your control and those which are totally under your control
Like poor Wifi connection
Slow wifi connection
Too many other people downloading at the same time and Apple Servers are overloaded
Software on the computer interfering with the download process including AntiVirus Software
Notation: Disabling the AV Software may or may not solve the issue. Removal of the AV Software may increase the chances of the download to perform as expected.
Running behind a VPN which may increase Packet losses or corruption of the download
Turn off any Third Party Two Way Firewall and try again
If via wifi & too many Other devices using the wifi at the same time reducing the Bandwidth to your computer.
Best Results are via Ethernet Cable to Router
Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal
Try Again using the Software Update Applet in System Preferences / Setting
Worst case - Restart in Recovery Mode and choose Reinstall macOS.
This in theory will pull the latest version of macOS this computer qualifies to run
maherescu wrote:
No antivirus here, no vpn and 300gb of free space :(
There are factors:
Some which are beyond your control and those which are totally under your control
Like poor Wifi connection
Slow wifi connection
Too many other people downloading at the same time and Apple Servers are overloaded
Software on the computer interfering with the download process including AntiVirus Software
Notation: Disabling the AV Software may or may not solve the issue. Removal of the AV Software may increase the chances of the download to perform as expected.
Running behind a VPN which may increase Packet losses or corruption of the download
Turn off any Third Party Two Way Firewall and try again
If via wifi & too many Other devices using the wifi at the same time reducing the Bandwidth to your computer.
Best Results are via Ethernet Cable to Router
Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal
Try Again using the Software Update Applet in System Preferences / Setting
Worst case - Restart in Recovery Mode and choose Reinstall macOS.
This in theory will pull the latest version of macOS this computer qualifies to run
Ensure that you have no ‘protection’, ‘helper’, or ‘antivirus’ software running (those are absolutely unnecessary on a Mac and often cause problems like this). Same with VPNs (also useless outside of needing to get behind firewall for your organization, otherwise they just mean someone else is selling your data).
Ensure you have sufficient free space on your Mac.
Personally, I have had no issues on two Macs with the 26.4.1 update, the second of which just started back up after the update as I type this.
It wouldn't download (repeatedly). Then I shut down the computer for an hour, and after I started up, it consented to download.
Managed to get this work: simply restarted the machine. Should have tried this first (facepalm).
From another user with much the same issue
macOS Tahoe 26.4 update stuck at 'Preparing to go' for 5 minutes on iMac
FYI - Downloaded the Tahoe 26.4.1 update on 3 machines
No issue here
No antivirus here, no vpn and 300gb of free space :(
Tried several times: lots of free space, fast internet connection, no AV. From 26.3.1(a). Nothing obvious in console.
Tried several times: lots of free space, fast internet connection, no AV. From 26.3.1(a). Nothing obvious in console.
macOS Tahoe 26.4 does not download for installation
