(You can also open it from the Applications folder, Launchpad, or Spotlight.) Click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions. After download is complete, Install macOS Sierra opens automatically.A file named Install macOS Sierra downloads to your Applications folder. Click the Download button on the macOS Sierra page.Search the App Store for macOS Sierra, or go directly to the macOS Sierra page.To find your model, memory, storage, and version of OS X, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu ().īefore upgrading, it's a good idea to back up your Mac. It also requires at least 2GB of memory and 8.8GB of storage space. MacOS Sierra requires one of the following Mac models and versions of OS X. Take a look at the information below to ensure that you meet all of the other necessary system requirements to upgrade to macOS Sierra, from our article: How to get macOS Sierra Your current version of macOS can be updated to macOS Sierra. As noted in a previous Knowledge Base article, there is a bug in Mac OS X 10.5.6 that causes it to report no search results when searching against AFP servers other than Mac OS X 10.5, including Acronis Files Connect (formerly ExtremeZ-IP), Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), and Microsofts now discontinued Services for Macintosh (SFM) on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. If I'm understanding correctly, several apps are not working because you need to update your macOS.