Install Big Sur on Unsupported Mac with Patched Sur - Full Walkthrough! [THE EASY WAY!!!] 2012-2013
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- Do you want to install macOS Big Sur on your 2012 or 2013 Mac? I will show you the easiest way to do it! This video is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Patched Sur a macOS Big Sur patcher to create a USB Patched Installer and use it to upgrade macOS Catalina to Big Sur.
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DISCLAIMER: Please understand that installing macOS Big Sur on your unsupported Mac is a best effort by the community. A ton of work went into getting the patcher to work! Some things might not work exactly right but it's really really close. I would not recommend installing on a system that you count on for work or school. ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR FILES FIRST BEFORE YOU UPGRADE! Also note that certain features like sealed OS Snapshots are disabled. This is the only way to make the patcher work right now. The good news is that you are getting the latest security fixes from Apple. Some might argue that upgrading to Patched Big Sur makes your Mac safer since Apple is no longer fixing security issues on macOS High Sierra and below. Thank you!
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* 2012 MacBook Air
* 2012 MacBook Pro
* 2013 Early MacBook Pro
* 2012 Mac Mini
* 2012 iMac
* 2013 iMac
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Installed Big Sur on my 2012 Mac Mini ( Catalina, intel core i7 2.3 GHZ Quad Core, 16 GB DDR3, EVO860) . Thanks for your step by step installation guide. Big Sur was loaded up with no complications and with no performance issues. What is old is new again. :) Thanks again Mr. Mac!
That's the beauty of Bens Patcher, It takes a perfectly working Mac Mini that has the power to run Big Sur and breathes new life into it!
When I first looked at upgrading my system to Big Sur, I was hesitant since there was a ton of very techie stuff. I was using this 2012 Mac Mini as my work computer while working from home, and so did not want to do it at all. I recently retired and took another look. Your tutorial and recommendation was super easy to follow. Success! Thanks for the time you took to make this. Big Sur is now running like a champ! B-)
The installation was successful on my 2012 MacBook Pro! I give kudos for this guide's creation. My appreciation also goes out to the people working on the patchers. Their efforts can save me some money by not having to obtain new hardware for a while. I just have to remember to select the volume of my partitioned hard drive that corresponds to Catalina while starting my computer in order to use Big Sur. Thanks! 🙏
Thank you Moses!!!
@Mr.Macintosh forgot to mention i am a huge fan of your work,i used your products on many machines and you are a absolute star 🌟 Kudos 👏 (my last comment waz for imac 2012 with catalina freshly installed and after big sur now stuck at kexts part) Thanks 😊
Installed and runs perfectly on Mid 2012 Macbook Pro. I honestly didn't think this would work but yeah, big big thanks man!
I have Mid 12 Macbook pro too. I will try today .
I have mid 2012 MacBook Pro too, it is better to stay on Catalina or it has the same performance on this Big Sur? what do you think?
@@wica7663 try to Big Sur ! a lot someone say it ok :)
@@wica7663 actually I noticed nothing bad I mean it's better looking but everything is working fine!
wi-fi and airplay works?
I’ve always liked you, now I like you even more, haha. Someone on the Unsupported Macs discord said there was an in-depth tutorial on my patcher, and he was right, great job.
Just to clarify some things:
- The icon on the EFI boot kind of represents the prohibited symbol for a reason, you are supposed to boot into that one first, then Install macOS Big Sur. I choose the color red, because I thought it was a good color.
- Your USB ports worked to begin with, that’s the USB 1.0 Macs that need that patch. WiFi was the only thing that needed a fix on your computer.
- Late 2013 iMacs don’t need the kexts patches at all.
- That last hiccup with the Plug In USB Installer and Try Again is a known bug so that will be fixed sometime in the future (probably around the time I rename the usb drive to Install Patched Sur)
If anyone has any question, feel free to ask!
Ben, thank you very much. You did a great job with this patcher!! I appreciate that you helped clarify these points. I will attempt adding text to the video with this new information! Quick question on the red EFI Boot, after clicking on that what should happen? For some reason, I remember it just booting to a black screen. Then I restarted and the green one worked like I mentioned in the video. Again, thank you for your work on this, I think how you made it more user friendly will really open the door to more people using the patcher.
@@Mr.Macintosh No problem, thanks for making the video, you have a huge audience so this will help a lot of people learn about this amazing trick!
The EFI Boot disables the macOS compatibility check so that Big Sur and the installer will boot without the prohibited sign and it also disables SIP so that the kexts can be patched. The icon was supposed to represent the prohibited symbol so it would signify getting rid of it. Since the tool only does two things, your Mac will instantly turn off because it's not a full OS, just two actions.
Thanks @ben for all your hard work and helping people like me.
MBP 2011 not working, right? :(
HEAT There’s no graphics acceleration so no it will not work well.
All is working fine, fully installed. Thank you so much for these very clear and precise steps, this should never get a thumbs down! I looked at tons of videos "how to" and yours is truly the simplest one to do...THANKS
Thank you Harold, I appreciate it!
Bruh" I’ve tinkering around with Macs for at least 15 years, I’ve used CZcams for most of my problems (which has be absolutely amazing) but your channel has been popping up on my feed for the last couple of months and here and there I’ve been watching your uploads (well today I must tip my hat 🎩 to you) what a bloody amazing fabulous channel you’ve made ❤️ you have a non generic/ I’m not following the flow channel (which I absolutely love ❤️) the information you are handling out and the quality is real big" you’ve earned yourself a follower today that respects your ethics "keep up the amazing work big man"
Dan, I really do appreciate the comments. I built my website and youtube channel to help people understand the Mac. You will not find any surprised face thumbnails or clickbait videos here, just straight to the point information that is easy to understand for every day users!
@@Mr.Macintosh No problem" credit where credit is due ❤️
Let me say, I can’t thank you enough for this video. And Ben Sova, thank you for this labor of love. This video helped me get Big Sur installed without **one** hitch. I’m blown away. I’ve had more hiccups installing previous versions of macOS on my Mac than I did with this patch. I have a mid 2012 MBP and the things is such a beast. I put an SSD and 16gig of RAM in it. I run my design business on it and it’s not let me down. I think Apple hardware-which I’ve been running since last ’90s-is underrated on longevity. I have a machine here which could likely run another 2-3 years. It’s plenty quick enough for 90% of my tasks.
Super Bowl Sunday is now more super thanks to the both of you! Much love.
H C, thank you for the wonderful comment. Ben and I really appreciate it! He is hard at work at 1.0, I can't' wait. I'm glad you got Big Sur working on your 2012, it still has many years left!
@@Mr.Macintosh will 1.0 allow for easy dot version upgrades? That would be incredible.
Thanks for the video. Got the update / install to work, and now my system is running faster and smoother than before. Also a lot of the bugs that plagued my system when I was running Catalina seemed to have been fixed. I installed Big Sur on a Mac mini late 2012.
Hey there. Just followed your video. I’m a total novice when it comes to getting under the skin of doing what machines and applications are meant to do. I wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU for this. Incredibly easy to follow and I now have an early 2013 MacBook Pro flying on Big Sur. Hugely appreciated! Best wishes, J
Thank you J!!!!!
hey, I have also macbook pro early 2013, you've installed big sur ok, so how's the performance? is it better than catalina? it is good for macOS and iOS development? please response
Does your MacBook Pro still work?
This helped me soooo much! I depend on pages for my small business and when it stopped working(due to my computer not being compatible) I don’t know how I would afford a new computer in this economy, to keep my business going. I’m so happy that I found this video I was able to make my 2012 iMac compatible and now I can continue to create and design my cross stitch charts!!!!
would like to apologize for saying my computer crashed i tried it again and today i was able to install Big Sur following your steps thank you for everything you have done and God bless
Super clear and well put together--many thanks, sir!
Thanks Geoff!!
@@Mr.Macintosh Not working
i agree it works for me and it was one of tne clearest tutorials where it wasnt overexplained nor unclear thank u!
Thanks for the tip on the prohibited sign- also tried it a few times and same issue . Had the same issues and it got similarly resolved with your tip to click on efi boot. And then it magically booted!
Thank you so much for this. Just got Big Sur installed on my 2012 MacBook Air with no problems at all.
One of the best instructional videos I've ever watched! Thanks for taking the time and I've subscribed.
You bet Philip!!! thank you
Worked quite well. Of note, if subsequently clearing nvram, must boot again with usb to efi else will get prohibited screen.
Saved my day. Thank you a lot.
I like what you did Mr Mackintosh! I installed Big Sur with your patcher. It was a great and professional experience.
Thank you Andre!!!
@@Mr.Macintosh do you know if anyone got Graphics acceleration to work on older Mac before metal
Thank you, it works on my mid 2012 Macbook pro 15'. Btw just a reminder, at 12:30 boot option screen, I had to click "EFI Boot" first, it went nowhere but shut down, then I powered it on back to this screen again and clicked "install macOS big Sur", it went through without a glitch!
Awesome Cross South! I'm glad you made it to Big Sur!
My 2008 MacBook Pro runs thanks to you macOS Monterey now (not this video, but one of your others) so thank you so much for the highly detailed videos, otherwise I wouldn't have tried it at all.
Mr. Mac, thank you so much. You're very thorough and calm through the process, which helps a lot. Everything works great, thanks again.
Thank you Ali, I appreciate the comments!
@Mr. Macintosh I can not find the "Patch Kexts" in the Application folder. Could you please give me the link to Kexts or send me by mail. Thanks in Advance
Great tutorial, Install on Mac Mini 2012, seems everything working now. Thanks
You bet Amit!!!
Works great for a 2012 Mac Mini i7. Had a small problem after booting up with the usb flash disk. The green button blocked. After pushing the red button first, everything went well. Great solution for non supported modern powerful Macs. Thanks for this very clear video. Highly recommended.
A GREAT BIG THANK YOU! Installed Big Sur on my iMac 27 inch late 2013 - i5 - 24gb. I followed your instructions, I did have a glitch as you mentioned of where to install, I had to click on the tfi square and then reboot and then select the green square. Everything else went smoothly! : )
Awesome Michael! I'm glad you got it to work.
This is the best tutorial video I have ever seen related to hacking a computer in some way. Thanks for doing it. I wasn't going to try to get Big Sur to run on my late 2012 Mac Mini, but now I might. If I understand your answer to another question, I would have to do this whole update process again when Apple updates Big Sur - is that right? Is it safe to assume that the [patcher will be able to find 11.1, 11.2, etc when the time comes?
Steve, thank you very much for the comments. I took a quick look around youtube to get an idea on the videos out there around the subject and well... confusing to say the least. The idea behind this was to make a video walkthrough that was easy to understand for everyone! To answer your question on updates, yes you will be able to update to 11.1 when it comes out, I will make a video on that showing you how to do this. Ben is actually working on an automatic patcher that will help in the process. Stay tuned!
@@Mr.Macintosh please keep us updated on that auto patcher. I’m subscribing to you channel now! Great stuff.
Mr Mac Great work i have managed to install Big Sur on a early 2011 i7 Mac Book Pro 15" and the issues i am facing are the camera doesn't get detected even after the kexts, display doesn't run smooth but is better after i disabled the animation but other than that al seems to be ok, sound , usb and wifi working fine and this is Big Sur 11.5.1
Great news Francis! You can also try OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Mr. Mac, thank you for that video which helped me to install Big Sur on my MacBook Air Mid 2012. Everything worked out quite well. In addition to your experience, I had to confirm the change in Security and Privacy. The reason could have been that the original MacBook Air had only 512GB and I exchanged the HD with a 1TB from OWC. Also DropBox did open and I had to download the App again - just FYI.
Super simple, easy to understand and to follow. I've got Big Sur! Mr.Macintosh you made my day. I'm Subscribing!
Welcome aboard Karim! Thank you.
Dude, your tutorial worked perfect!... My mid-2012 MacBook Pro runs just as good or even better on Big Sur, then it did on Catalina... Even my Windows 10 partition... Everything updated and works perfect... Thanks again.
Glad it helped Myke!!! thank you 👍
Will my windows 7 bootcamp partition still work or do I need to update it to windows 10 first before upgrading to big sur?
A quick question, with this method, will I get future updates? Thanks
Yes
Hi, everything worked! Thanks. One note however, for a newly created user I had to rerun texts patch script
Thanks Fortunatas! Good to know, thanks for that info.
@@Mr.Macintosh I Doing same think, but still not working... after burn on the flash, I make shutdown computer, next (alt)+(power) boot screen, choice Install Mac OS X Big Sur and then apple logo (not supported) Logo... answer please :)
@@NodoRobakidze @Mr.Macintosh I have the same problem.
Macbook Pro mid 2012
help us please kkk
@@chelssantos after restart click ALT button waiting then first click EFI boot then your computer will turn off. after again power button and alt. then open install macos big sur and will open.
Selecten Menu:
1. EFI Boot
2. Install Macos Big sur
@@chelssantos i fixed this problem
What a fantastic video, well explained and easy to follow. Keep up the good work. Mick, Northern Ireland 👍👏🍻
Thanks Mike! I appreciate it 👍
Perfect, had an Issue with Restriction Sign, then as you mentioned,
Click on EFI BOOT , bingo its done
Thanks
Nice Bal!! Glad you made it to big sur 👍
Warning reset in your Pram causes the system to fail you must reboot From USB. boot from EFI and then reboot again
Thank you so much 🙏. I kept getting the crossed out circle and couldn’t proceed. Installing now perfectly. Hoping this works!
FYI: For those who didn’t understand...choose EFI after rebooting with option key. Then restart and this time choose the installer. The installation can then proceed.
What if I done that and I still get the warning sign what should I do
@@dawoodsattar8447 you are saying that you have chosen EFI...then restarted...then chosen the installer and you still get the “blocked” symbol?
Yes that’s exactly what I’m saying I really don’t know what to do honestly I’ve tired so many times and I didn’t sleep last night til 7 o’clock in the morning
@@dawoodsattar8447 what model and year of machine do you have? Are you doing an upgrade or did you choose a fresh, clean install?
This is awesome! Could you please post a video on how to do this but on a Mac with Mac High Sierra?
Thanks Ricardo! I might do a follow up video on big-sur-micropatcher that would allow you to make the jump from 10.13.
Hi.. Is there any procedure available for mac os 10.3.6 high sierra to bigsur..?
Thanks Mr Mac, yep worked well with my 2012 (Mid) Macbook Pro. I just had the same issue as mentioned in the video when trying to run the install it, I had to click on the boot EFI Boot once, then restart then select MacOS Big Sur and it worked.
Alistair, I'm glad that you have Big Sur working!!!
Thank you. It worked so well, and runs so fast! Have a great day! :D
Last question. How will we handle OS updates?
@The camera never lies but the lens a lil fibber 😂
Wow thank you, I'm running a 2011 iMac (upgraded K610M GPU) and it's running fantastic. Directions were perfect and the upgrade solved a couple of small issues I had. What I did lose is my brightness, any thoughts on how to get that back? Thanks again
Hey Adnan, That's something that is unknown at this point. Same thing happened on my 2011 MBPro. What you can do as a workaround is install high sierra on a separate partition, boot into it and then adjust the brightness. I know its a crazy work around but it works for now until the devs figure out a fix.
Amazing work at creating this video on how to install Mac OS Big Sur. Thank you so much. Took a while. But managed to make it all work. Seems flawless so far. Like amazing on MacBook Pro 2012
Yes, it is a bit of a process but.... It will get better! The patchers are only in the beginning stages, I'm glad that you got big sur running on your 2012 MBPro!
@@Mr.Macintosh wondering how to do updates to macOS Big Sur 11.2
Thankyou for this, easy and works perfectly on my 2013 MacBook pro. it was turned on today for the first time in 3 years and still worked easy and seemlessly
Nice! That 2013 MBPro still has a lot of life left in it 👍
Great video. I'm creating my USB on my Mid 2012 Pro. I get through all the steps with no problems untill i get to "Patching USB". It's been on that for almost 2 days. First i thought it was my 16GB USB 2.0 so i switched to a fresh 128GB SSD External but i'm getting the same thing. Am i doing something wrong?
with this patcher I didn't need to patch the USB separately. It all went automatically and everything is working fine. Though my pro has 2 video cards and should be switching when needed but that doesn't happen anymore. It is now continuously on the Nvidia card. But further is all fine.
Ok thanks, I'm going to try again
hello, please I want to know that will there be a time to publish an access for we using the 2009 models to enjoy Big Sur? Bcos I love how it looks like. We wanna enjoy that also
I hear ya Godfred, I have not made a video for the 2009-2011 Macs because the patchers are still having issues with these models. As soon as something changes I will update!
Thanks for the help and an awesome video. I was finally able to update my Macbook Air 2012 last night and get the WiFi and everything working.
Thanks much and kudos to you and all the folks involved with the making of this video and the software to make this upgrade happen. This worked perfectly on a mid-2012 MacBookPro with an SSD drive and 16GB of Ram running Catalina. Cheers!
EDIT: Second time, everything succeeded! Hi, with installation everything went well, but when patching kexts starts I get: error 1x1 Password:sudo:/Volumes/Install macOS Big Sur/patch-kexts.sh: command not found. Macbook Pro Late 2012. USB works like a charm, stuck with non working wifi...
Plug in and unplug the usb drive then try again. If that doesn’t work, show the contents of the usb drive in finder and drag patch-kexts.sh into a terminal window then press enter. Wait for that to finish then reboot and enjoy macOS Big Sur.
Hi I have same problem so how can I solved
Is it okay if I go to disk utility and format my Mac while installing big Sur? Wanted to start fresh.
You can, just remember you won’t have WiFi during setup. Unless of course you want to run a terminal command in recovery mode after the install.
@@Ben216k thank you 😀 great video btw
Worked all fine. 🙏
@@Ben216k When can we format the hard disk ? At czcams.com/video/hxBffgBg8Hg/video.html after booting from the USB stick?
mateiacd Yes, there is a disk utility app there, so use that
You are the friggin best! Seriously THANK YOU. I almost threw out my 2012 and went out and bought a new one 😅❤❤❤
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH BOY!!! I have little to NO experience using MacOS, AND DID EVERYTHING FLAWLESSLY ON THE FIRST TRY!!!!! aahahahahahahaha
Thank you so much! This whole thing was very interesting and fun!!!
Nice Work Gabriel!!! This is what my channel is all about. I want everyone to know they can do it!!!
Thank you for sharing your expertise. It was a breeze to follow the directions and get this up and running.
Thank you for the video.
I have tested it with a MacBook Pro early 2011 and the installation steps did work. What did not work is the post install step at minute 15:24. The Patched Sur won't open and always end up with Retry, Report, Ignore options.
I had "big-sur-micropatcher" was already downloaded and saved to a USB drive, so:
1- open a terminal windows
2- dragged patch-kexts.sh from the root of the installation USB drive into the terminal window
3- provide your password
4- reboot after the execution is complete
And the WiFi worked just fine after the reboot.
Thanks again
ami4TECH, thanks for the info! I did try this on my 2011 also but the fact that sleep and screen brightness did not work, I did not want to tell people to jump in just yet. Is this the same on your Macbook Pro?
@@Mr.Macintosh I do not see any issues with sleep or screen brightness.
The only issues I'm experiencing are:
1- Applications minimizing and restoring seems to be significantly slower than what I used to have with Big Sur 11.0.1 which I installed following the exact same way. Switching between open applications seems to be working fine and responsive as long as the applications were not minimized, it is just the minimize and restore. I have tried disabling the animation and Reducing the the transparency, but it did not help
2- The CPU utilization is high most of the time when plying videos or using a VM, but anyway this is the same experience i had with previous versions I had this Macbook as a used one and my first macOS version was Mojave, so I do not know how it used to function with previous version
work excellent on MacBook Pro early 2013. Upgrade from Catalina to Big Sur. Thanks Mr. Macintosh!
Worked Worked Worked, I did have to click on Efi Boot and then restart and try again, then it worked perfectly fine...Appreciate it fam
Nice Jason!!! I'm glad you made it to Big Sur!
Thnx!! My 2012 Mac mini works great with Big Sur running. Your instructions did the trick!
Awesome Stefan!!!
Thank you Mr Macintosh. I have followed this guidance and my 2013 21.5” inch iMac seems working great. I have used an external SSD. Thank you
11.2 update went perfect as well... Keep up the great work man.
@Mr. Macintosh huge thank you for sharing, my MBP 2012 is running BigSur like magic! Greetings from Zambia!
Hello Sitali!!! thank you and nice work keeping you 2012 MBPro running!!!
Thanks for this video, the clear instructions. This update worked very well. Updated MacMini Server (Late 2012) to the latest version of Big Sur 11.6.2
Worked perfectly for me took a few hours but once up and running and it had optimized it ran perfect! (for those who had a issue booting the install “support/Mac” boot into the other mode first then boot the install)
MacBook Pro 13" Mid-2012
Everything works except handoff, anyone else?
BTW Thanks so much for this amazing tutorial kind sir!!
Thank you and the community for this. Have used DosDude's patches for years. This installed flawlessly on my 15in retina, mid-2012 MBP.
Thank you so much!!! Saved me from buying a new macbook!!
Thank you so much for the video! I had the same problem where upon clicking on Big Sur installation i see the prohibited sign. Luckily you mentioned about how to overcome that too. Cheers!
it actually worked. Thanks bro, I've been trying for month and then I found this Tuto
Brilliant, thank you ever so much. I'm not a computer techie, yet it seemed so easy. Explained perfectly. Mid 2012 MacBook Pro working a treat 👍🏻
Harry here. Worked for me on a late 2012 mac mini with SSD and 16gb of RAM. But I had to restart several times after building the USB flash drive installer before I could get the installation to start. Then after I finally got it to start I got the dreaded crossed out circle indicating something had gone wrong during the installation, at the first stage, apparently before any changes had been written to the system drive. I restarted the installation once more and it seemed to kick in for good this time. It was a very slow process with many, many reboots and no apparent progress could be discerned looking at the progress bar. After thirty minutes I went to bed, skeptical that it would succeed. When I woke up in the morning the installation was complete and I installed the kexts according to the instructions. Thanks.
Awesome Harry, yes the big sur installer process does have some long waits and reboots but I'm glad it finally worked for you!!!
It works like a charm on my Macbook Pro 2012 mid, thank you so much for your tutorial.
Thank you so much for this! So easy and felt really smart after doing so. I do suggest to anyone though to use the install assistant to get everything working smoother, I tried doing it without it because I didn’t know how to use the link, and the loading of the mac OS kept crashing on me. I finally figured out to copy the link and paste it to download the install assistantand it worked perfectly. So again, Thank you very much!!!
Glad it helped Haya!!!
Did it on my 2011 imac worked perfectly fine and smoother than ever
Nice Rockman124!!!
The prohibited sign kept popping but clicked the efi and rebooted then clicked on install and it worked just as stated. Thanks. 2012 iMac 27inch. Installing now...
Thanks so much for this super helpful, calm, easy to understand video! I needed to do the trick you showed when choosing install disk and it worked perfectly - thanks!!! So glad to have this installed on my perfectly capable machine.
Thank you Benjamin!!! I'm glad your Mac is now up and running on Big Sur!
@@Mr.Macintosh Quick update - it seems wifi is working after a restart but after a few hours or going to sleep, wifi networks are not showing up. i patched the kexts. Any idea why this might be happening?
I have a 2013 Quad Core iMac 27 inch, this worked flawlessly! Thank You. It makes no sense that a Quad Core 2013 isn't compatible, but a watered down 2014 dual core iMac is.
My iMac is noticeably faster on Big Sur, I have no idea why Apple wouldn't make this part of the upgrade list. I have a solid state drive and I still noticed how much faster it is. I thought it might slow it down a bit, but it was the opposite.
Great video, this worked on an early 2011 15" MacBook Pro with a Mid 2012 logic board running a Fusion Drive... Uprade went smoothly, installion was a little different from the video because of the new version, other than that, no problems... Thanks again...
Very informative video you made. You helped a lot of viewers to overcome this problem of update.🤝thank you so much
Got my 2012 MacBook Pro working like a charm! Appreciate the help. Got one sub. Here!
You are a living legend and Macintosh thank you so much
Thank you so much for this video! Thanks to your very easy to follow instructions and the excellent work that was done on patched Sur, my 2012 mac mini server remains a garageband beast!
Thanks for this, I have updated my imac late 2013 to the new Big Sur. I am using an external PCIe drive via USB to run the system files, and it had an issue on the last step with the kext files. I am hard wired to internet so I downloaded a kext installer, unzipped all the kext files and managed to install them, via this as the patcher would not see the USB installer drive once Big Sur had installed. All seems good and mega fsat now, thanks for the video great explanation and well worked thru.
Thank you Ian! Your Late 2013 iMac is still plenty fast and can run Big Sur just fine, I'm not sure why Apple dropped support for this model.
@@Mr.Macintosh with the 256gb pcie drive on usb its faster than i can ever remember it being, and using an external drive means no tears taking the screen off. I was spitting blood when I saw I was not getting Big Sur. Thanks again
@@ianunwin Hi Ian - I am on the same iMac as you and I ran into the same issue. I'm wondering where I might be able to find the kext files and how I go about installing them?
thanks alot for such a easy video it was very easy to install i did not used ssd but sata drive working smoothly thanks again keep up the good work..
Most helpful thank you. Updated me new to me 2012 pro. Working perfectly.
Made the install very easy! Thank you!
Works on my MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2012)! Thanks for the tutorial.
Working smoothly on my MacBook Pro 2012 mid. Thanks man!
Just want to say thank you easy to follow worked first time
Glad it helped Andy, thank you for the comment!
thank you very much Mr Macintosh for your guide i've installed mac os big sur 11.1 on my mac late 2012
Awesome Attilio! I'm glad it worked for you!
Hi I just want to say you thank you very much for your support I have a Mac 2012 Pro quite a while I was trying to get it update I tried so much different video but didn't work.I just try your video and it worked perfectly.
Thanks so much your video was what I needed!! Everything works perfect!! Kudos
Mannnnn❤❤❤ this vid just gave my mac new life ! Thank you sir what a ,masterpiece
Very very nice!
I make a clean install on my macbook pro 2012, and run the patch kexts on terminal after.
100%!!!
Mr. Macinstosh is fire!!!
Thank you Alexandre!!!
Pls tell me how to patch after clean installation of Big Sur ? Only patch "patch-kexts.sh' and "insert-hax.sh" ?
@@cassieseto4338 After install, put the pendrive install on mac. On terminal,
sudo "/Volumes/Install macOS Big Sur/patch-kexts.sh"
and Restart!
@@azeeproject thanks a lot ! it works like a charm !
your wifi working after the update?
Thanks a lot ! Got it. Working great. MacBook Pro 13 Ret Late 2012.
You're welcome Chretien! I'm glad you got big sur working on your 2012!
Wow cheers worked like a dream my 2012, 27"imac is running Big Sur Thank you
Could you put out a step by step guide for running the Patcher on Mojave?
The Patched Sur app is only available for Catalina. If you have Mojave and below you can use the Big Sur Micropatcher! - czcams.com/video/djiikn1DkpU/video.html
Thanks for sharing this amazing Video. Just wanted to share my experience if that helps. Mine is iMac Late 2013. If one faces issues install media usb not being recognised, the pls run disk utility then click on view menu and select "show all devices" this will show the make of the USB drive. Select the USB Make and then format it with erase, select format Mac OS Extended (journaled), Scheme as GUID Partition Map. This should make the drive visible now. Also in case of iMac Late 2013, it did not need to run the Kexts Patch, as Patched Sur already installed the wifi & usb fixes. Hope this helps. Cheers !
Installation was a breeze. Thanks for your hard work.
thanks a lot for the guide. big sur installation was a breeze and works fine.
This guide needs a little update cause some things changed since the last version of the patcher, which ended development a while ago, but still works. Installed successfully on a Late 2013 27 inch iMac
It worked like a charm. iMac Late 2012
Awesome!!!!
Running it on my mid 2012 (non retina) macbook pro and it runs very very smooth.
Nice work Marij!!!!
Thank you for the information!
I just completed installing Big Sur on my late 2013 21.5 iMac. But….. it wasn’t as cut and dry.
A few add-on’s-
If you’re using a usb thumb drive, blank or not make sure you format it with the machine you’re installing it on. It must be named “untitled” and using journaled. That was the only way I could get the app to format and compile everything onto it.
It kept failing this process because it was named and formatted on another Mac. Don’t ask me why but it was the only way it worked and didn’t fail the “unmount & mount stage”
When you’re ready to install after power cycle and option key, I had to do the “efi” boot drive first, then reboot. It would fail if I tried patcher install first.
After this step it hung at 12 minutes twice and wouldn’t complete using the patcher install. Another Big Sur boot drive was available too.
I had to click that one to get it to finish.
Over all it wasn’t to bad. Much easier than using terminal!
It didn’t index my TV app media correctly. I have it stored on an external USB hard drive.
I think I’m gonna have to re download all of my movies and tv shows because it won’t index the selected drive correctly.
Not sure why. But it isn’t a big deal. Probably take a day to do that.
All in all this tutorial does work but it is a bit glitchy. Don’t give up. This will work if you’re a bit tech savvy.
Thanx man ... worked same as in the video ...macbook pro early 2013
Worked beautifully for my iMac 2012
Awesome Jaime!!!
does your computer run slower now ?