macOS Monterey

macOS Monterey (version 12) is the eighteenth <a href="/facts/Software_versioning/EP8VXAUU">major release</a> of <a href="/facts/MacOS/Y93vVpTm">macOS</a>, <a href="/facts/Apple_Inc./oTJYta3k">Apple</a>'s desktop <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating system</a> for <a href="/facts/Macintosh/8GhnXTK0">Macintosh</a> computers. The successor to <a href="/facts/MacOS_Big_Sur/RV8pCK4d">macOS Big Sur</a>, it was announced at <a href="/facts/WWDC_2021/hEjVWkoo">WWDC 2021</a> on June 7, 2021, and released on October 25, 2021. macOS Monterey was succeeded by <a href="/facts/MacOS_Ventura/6JzKPJML">macOS Ventura</a>, which was released on October 24, 2022.
The operating system is named after <a href="/facts/Monterey_Bay/XqsYyI1I">Monterey Bay</a>, continuing the trend of releases named after <a href="/facts/California/zLW2vdQJ">California</a> locations since 2013's <a href="/facts/OS_X_Mavericks/5xavJXqv">10.9 Mavericks</a>.
macOS Monterey is the final version of macOS that supports the 2015–2017 MacBook Air, Retina MacBook Pro, 2014 Mac Mini, 2015 iMac and cylindrical Mac Pro, as its successor, macOS Ventura, drops support for those models. It is the last version of macOS that can run on Macs with 4GB of RAM.

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macOS Monterey