Hi everyone! Welcome to this video. macOS Ventura has been released a few days
ago and as with any new major macOS release, Apple decided to drop support
for quite some older models. That means, in other words, that it's not possible to run Ventura on
that Hardware in an official way anymore. In a lot of cases these machines are more than
capable of running the latest macOS release. So in this video I'll try to
explain you step by step how to get macOS Ventura installed
on unsupported Mac hardware. Last year, with the release of Monterey, Apple dropped support for basically
anything older than a 2015 model. With Ventura, only a year later, this is more
or less anything older than a 2017 model. So it looks like they are in a rush
to drop support for Intel based Macs, since Apple is moving everything
to M1 and M2-based hardware and now needs to test new releases on
two completely different platforms. Ventura still has support
for some Intel based Macs of course and obviously also for
M1 and M2 silicon based machines. On Apple's website you can see which
models are officially supported and if you want to upgrade to, or install, Ventura
on these machines you don't need this video. In any other case: keep watching if you'd like to upgrade to or to do a fresh
install of macOS Ventura. The method that I will be using to accomplish
this involves using OpenCore Legacy Patcher. I did videos earlier on the same subject
for Big Sur, where I used another method and also on Monterey, where I used
the same method as I will do here. OpenCore Legacy Patcher allows you
to use an unmodified macOS installer. It tricks that installer in thinking it
is running on a newer, supported, model. In most cases it doesn't stop here as a lot
of changes have been introduced in Ventura, mainly related to drivers and hardware
support that requires a workaround. After installing the unsupported OS, there is a good chance that not everything
will work as expected. So the tool will also install patches to fix some issues or
to restore functionality if that's needed. It should be possible to use this
method on most 2012 or newer Mac models, with the exception of devices without
a Metal-supported graphical card. You can find a comprehensive list of models
on which OpenCore is supporting Ventura, on the website of OpenCore Legacy Patcher. The team behind OpenCore is
still working on expanding that list but this is what's working today. As mentioned it might take some time because
there were quite some changes in Ventura. For this video, as with the one I did for
Monterey, I'll be using my late 2013 iMac. It's equipped with an i7 4771, a 256 gig SSD, 16 gig of RAM and the Nvidia
GeForce GTX 780M video card. This is a legacy Metal card but the patcher
should be able to fix any issues with that. Currently my iMac is running macOS
Catalina as a starting point. This is the last officially
supported release on this model. Before we get started you can also
find all the steps that I will go through here in the video, in
detail, on my blog: jensd.be. I'll provide you a link for
that in the description. In short, we will need to go
through the following steps: First we will prepare a USB
drive of at least 16 gigabyte. Then we need to download OpenCore Legacy Patcher and use it to download the
macOS Ventura installer. Once we have the installer we can
create a bootable USB drive from it. Before we can use that USB drive,
we will install OpenCore on that same drive and then use it to boot
the installer and install macOS. Once macOS has been successfully installed we
will also install OpenCore on the internal hard drive or SSD so you can boot it without
needing that USB drive any longer. Finally I'll also show you how you can disable the
OpenCore boot picker if that's what you desire. So first of all we will prepare a USB drive. This one needs to have at least 16 gigabyte. This is theoretically an optional
step as the OpenCore Legacy Patcher should also be able to take care of
this but I think it's a good idea to make sure that USB drive that you
will use for this, is in good shape. This will prevent possible problems later
on like not being able to boot from it. To do this, insert the USB
drive and open Disk Utility. In Disk Utility, click to "Show All Devices" then in the left column select your USB
drive and click on "Erase" in the top menu. Now give the drive a name. I chose VenturaInstall, as you can see. Select "Mac OS Extended" and GUID as
partitioning scheme, then click "Erase". That should be all it takes for this step. Next we need to download OpenCore
Legacy Patcher which will be what we use to create a bootable
USB drive with the installer. OpenCore Legacy Patcher can
be downloaded from GitHub and I will provide a direct link in
the description for that as well. At the time I created this video the
latest version was release 0.5.0. On this page, scroll down a bit and choose
to download the OpenCore-Patcher-GUI.app.zip Once downloaded, the package is
extracted. If it's not, you can double click on it in your Downloads folder
and then we can launch OpenCorePatcher.app. Click open here to continue and now we are in the main menu
of the OpenCore Legacy Patcher. The first thing we need to do now from here is
to get our hands on the installer for Ventura. As the device which you want to get
Ventura on is officially not supported, that installer will not be shown
in the appstore on this device. Earlier versions of OpenCore
Legacy Patcher did not have this feature so you'd have to download the
installer yourself from other sources. The new functionality here
makes things quite a bit easier. In OpenCore Legacy Patcher,
click on "Create macOS installer" then choose "Download macOS installer" and
select which version you want to download. Since our goal is to install
Ventura, choose here for Mac OS 13. Once you made your selection, the tool
will download that actual installer which is about 12 to 13 gigabyte in size.
So this can take quite some time. The download is complete now and the
installer's .pkg will be installed. That's done. At this point the installer is installed as an
application in your Applications folder in Finder. Running it from here doesn't allow
you to continue unfortunately... Instead we need to use OpenCore Legacy Patcher once again to use that installer
to create a bootable USB drive. You can do this by either clicking directly on
"Flash installer" after the download completed or by going to the menu again
and navigate to "Create macOS installer" - "Use existing macOS
installer" - "Install macOS Ventura". In the format USB screen, select the drive
which you prepared in the first step. And once again you'll be tested for patience. Again about 12 (*14) gigabyte of data
needs to be written to your USB drive. The time this takes largely
depends on the speed of your drive. All data is now copied to the drive. As with the previous step, you
can choose right away to install OpenCore to the USB drive after the
files were copied, as you can see. Or from the main menu you could go
to "Build and install OpenCore". After OpenCore was successfully built,
click on "Install to disk" here. Make sure you select your USB drive from the list. Then click on the EFI partition listed to
get OpenCore installed on that USB drive. You get the option to reboot
right away to start the installer. I chose to skip this here and instead, although
this is optional but not a bad idea if you ask me, I recommend to copy the OpenCore Patcher
application over to the USB drive. Simply open the USB drive in Finder and copy the application from your
Downloads folder to the drive. The reason to do this, is that
after installing macOS Ventura, you might need to rerun the patcher. This could be to install
OpenCore to the internal drive, change the configuration or
possibly to re-apply some patches. So unless you plan to upgrade,
which will keep the file here, this would require you to re-download the patcher. Especially because it could be that
something goes wrong with the patching and your Wi-Fi or Ethernet adapter
is not working after installation, this can make things a bit more complicated
if you no longer have the patcher available. So far we've only been preparing things but now is
the time that we will use our USB drive, which is ready, to do the actual installation or upgrade
to macOS Ventura on our unsupported Mac model. To do so we will boot the Mac off
that USB drive which we just created. Leave the USB drive in the Mac and reboot it while
holding the Alt or Option key during boot time. If all goes well, holding down the
Option key brings up the bootloader. In there you should see the currently
installed system, named SSD in my case, an entry to install macOS Ventura and an EFI boot entry with the OpenCore logo. The last two are on the USB drive. From here, which is a standard bootloader,
we can't start the installation directly as we need to do this from OpenCore
to hide the real system identifier. Instead, select the most right entry: EFI boot,
using the arrow keys and then press enter. This brings you in OpenCore,
started from the USB drive. This looks very similar to
the standard bootloader. The only real difference is that there
is a text on the right bottom corner. From here you can now choose the
"Install macOS Ventura" option. This will launch the installer from the USB drive. This usually takes some time. Once you've arrived in the installer,
you should see something like this. At this point we need to decide
where we will install macOS Ventura. We have three options here: Option 1 is a fresh install for which you will remove the existing installed system
and give the full drive to Ventura. Option 2 is a dual boot. Here we'll
add the new volume and resize the existing volumes to keep your current
macOS and add Ventura as a choice. The last option, option 3, is to
upgrade your existing installation. For the first two we need to launch Disk Utility
from here first, as we need to prepare our drive. In Disk Utility, again, first click
on the button to "Show all devices". Then for Option 1, which I will go for,
which is a fresh install of Ventura, click your SSD or hard drive from
the left side and click "Erase". Give your drive a name. I chose SSD,
choose APFS as format and GUID as scheme. In case you would go for Option 2, to add
Ventura together with your current macOS install, click your SSD or hard drive on the left
side as well and click "Partition" instead. Then click the + sign here to add a partition and
choose to "Add a partition" rather than volume. You can change the size on the left side,
name the volume and choose APFS as format. As soon as Disk Utility is
ready with the operations on the drive we are good to move to the next step. Close Disk Utility and start
the installation from the menu. Click continue, accept the license agreement and select the volume on which
you want to install Ventura. So for a fresh install (option 1), choose the only
internal volume you see here, as in my example. For a dual boot (option 2), choose the name of the volume which you added
during the partitioning part and for an upgrade (option 3), select
the volume which was already there, which you want to upgrade and
has a current installation. As you could see I erased the entire drive
and named it SSD so that's what I will select. If all goes well, the installation
will do the necessary changes. Once more this takes quite some time. I believe it was around 45 minutes in my case. If all goes well you should
end up with the wizard for a new installation or login screen
in case you performed an upgrade. After going through these steps your
system now has macOS Ventura installed. Any required patches are
already installed automatically. We can easily check this
from OpenCore Legacy Patcher. The last step which we need
to go through is to install OpenCore on the internal hard drive or SSD. So far we've successfully installed Ventura
on our Mac but to start it we still need to boot from the USB drive as that is
where OpenCore is currently installed. In order to get this fixed we need to install
OpenCore to the internal drive Instead. This goes in the same way as we
did before for that USB drive. In most cases, when Ventura
is started the first time, the patcher will actually detect this situation
and will ask you already to go through this step. You can click OK here or start the patcher which
we copied to the USB drive and choose "Build and install OpenCore" - "Build OpenCore"
and then click on "Install to disk". Here, make sure you select your SSD
or hard drive from the list instead. Then click on the EFI partition listed here to
get OpenCore installed on the internal drive. That was the last step. Now we can remove the USB drive and try a reboot. This should boot OpenCore, which will load
macOS Ventura on your unsupported Mac. You might have noticed that during that boot,
OpenCore briefly shows you a boot picker. Some people might not like the delay that
this causes and in order to get rid of it, you can reinstall OpenCore to the internal
drive without this option enabled. So in order to do so, launch
OpenCore Legacy Patcher from the USB drive or you can just re-download it. Then navigate to "Settings". In there uncheck the "Show boot picker" option and repeat the steps we did
before to reinstall OpenCore to your SSD or hard drive
with that option disabled. When doing another reboot it
no longer shows us that boot picker and this looks exactly like
a regular, supported, installation. That was it! We are done. As you can see we have the new features
that came with macOS Ventura available. We can already see this in "About this Mac" but also in Settings and to be very sure, we can
test the new Stage Manager. Not really a fan of it myself to
be honest but it works as expected. Thanks a lot for watching! I hope this helps to extend
the life of your Apple Mac. If you have liked this video,
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