I recently upgraded from 10.10 Yosemite to 10.11 El Capitan. I'm now on 10.11.6 and have installed all available updates in the app store. However, my Safari version is still 9.1.3.
Safari 10 and 11 are compatible with El Capitan - but the app store doesn't push them to me, and I can't find a direct download link after alot of searching around. What to do?
OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
 menu : About This Mac. Click the System Report... button. Scroll down the left column until you see Installations. Click Installations. In the larger window, scroll down until you see Safari. What is the highest version that you see? Just below Safari, will be your security updates. Look for 2017-001, 2017-002, and 2017-003. The latter contains Safari 11.
Here is my El Capitan security update history:
You can obtain missing security updates (in order) specifically for El Capitan here.
 menu : About This Mac. Click the System Report... button. Scroll down the left column until you see Installations. Click Installations. In the larger window, scroll down until you see Safari. What is the highest version that you see? Just below Safari, will be your security updates. Look for 2017-001, 2017-002, and 2017-003. The latter contains Safari 11.
Here is my El Capitan security update history:
You can obtain missing security updates (in order) specifically for El Capitan here.
Okay, this is getting interesting.
I have no security updates for 10.11 showing up.
When I did the upgrade from 10.10 -> 10.11 on September 26th, it booted up immediately as 10.11.6, and no additional point updates or security updates came up through the app store. So I assume, everything up to that point was part of the installer or somehow applied during the upgrade without showing up in this list.
All that shows up from Apple since is:
But the funny part is:
Scrolling through the Installations list, I see that I got Safari 10.1.2, while still on Yosemite in July. However, the version in my Applications folder and the one I am running is 9.1.3. Where did the new one go? 😮
Something seems to be wrong with my Safari installation.
You will need to systematically apply all of the El Capitan updates in order as shown from my post. The criterion for update 2017-003 (Safari 11) may be the existence of the others, and explains why you are not getting any update notices.
Safari 11 will come to you as an update to El Capitan 10.11.6 in the Mac App Store's Updates tab — providing that you have not disabled Automatically check for updates in System Preferences : App Store panel.
Thanks for your answer!
I have "Automatically check for updates" enabled.
So that means I just have to be patient - Safari 11 will show up as an update in the future?
(It was released on September, 19th).
Yes, that did it. After all those updates (minus 2016-001, which isn't available for download from Apple), the app store showed the Safari 11 update and installed it correctly.
Thanks alot!
Finally, a happy ending. 😉
Safari Update on El Capitan
