MacOS Sierra

macOS SierraA version of the macOS operating system

Screenshot of macOS Sierra desktop

Developer| Apple
OS family|

* Macintosh
* Unix[1]

Source model| Closed, with open-source components
General
availability| September 20, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-09-20)
|Final release|Latest release}}| 10.12.6 (16G2136)[2] / September 26, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-09-26)
Update method| Mac App Store
Platforms| x86-64
Kernel type| Hybrid (XNU)
License| APSL and Apple EULA
Preceded by| OS X El Capitan
Succeeded by| macOS High Sierra
Support status
Obsolete, unsupported as of September 2019. iTunes is no longer being updated, but is able to download driver updates to sync to newer devices.[3] Drops support for Macs released from mid 2007 to mid 2009.
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macOS

Features

* History
* Transition to Intel processors
* Architecture
* List of applications
* List of games
* Components

Versions

* Rhapsody (Developer Release)
* Hera (Server 1.0)
* Kodiak (Public Beta)
* Cheetah (10.0)
* Puma (10.1)
* Jaguar (10.2)
* Panther (10.3)
* Tiger (10.4)
* Leopard (10.5)
* Snow Leopard (10.6)
* Lion (10.7)
* Mountain Lion (10.8)
* Mavericks (10.9)
* Yosemite (10.10)
* El Capitan (10.11)
* Sierra (10.12)
* High Sierra (10.13)
* Mojave (10.14)
* Catalina (10.15)

Applications

* App Store
* Automator
* Calculator
* Calendar
* Chess
* Contacts
* Dashboard
* Dictionary
* DVD Player
* FaceTime
* Finder
* Game Center
* Grapher
* iTunes (history)
* Launchpad
* Mail
* Messages
* Music
* Notes
* Notification Center
* Photo Booth
* Podcasts
* Photos
* Preview
* Reminders
* Safari (version history)
* Stickies
* TextEdit
* Time Machine

Utilities

* Activity Monitor
* AirPort Utility
* Archive Utility
* Audio MIDI Setup
* Bluetooth File Exchange
* ColorSync
* Console
* Crash Reporter
* DigitalColor Meter
* Directory Utility
* DiskImageMounter
* Disk Utility
* Font Book
* Grab
* Help Viewer
* Image Capture
* Installer
* Keychain Access
* Migration Assistant
* Network Utility
* ODBC Administrator
* Remote Install Mac OS X
* Screen Sharing
* System Preferences
* System Information
* Terminal
* Universal Access
* VoiceOver

Related

* Classic Mac OS
* Copland
* NeXTSTEP
* Rhapsody
* Darwin

* v
* t
* e

macOS Sierra (version 10.12)[4] is the thirteenth major release of macOS (formerly known as OS X and Mac OS X), Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. The name "macOS" stems from the intention to unify the operating system's name with that of iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Sierra is named after the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California and Nevada. Specifically, Lone Pine Peak is the location for macOS Sierra's default wallpaper.[5] Its major new features concern Continuity, iCloud, and windowing, as well as support for Apple Pay and Siri.

The first beta of macOS Sierra was released to developers shortly following the 2016 WWDC keynote on June 13, 2016. The first public-beta release followed on July 7, 2016. It was released to end users on September 20, 2016, as a free upgrade through the Mac App Store[6] and it was succeeded by macOS High Sierra on September 25, 2017.

## Contents

* 1 System requirements
* 1.1 Workarounds for unsupported systems
* 2 Changes
* 2.1 Default wallpaper
* 2.2 System features
* 2.2.1 Siri
* 2.2.2 iCloud Drive and Optimized Storage
* 2.2.3 Auto Unlock and Universal Clipboard
* 2.2.4 Tabs and Picture-in-Picture
* 2.2.5 Apple File System
* 2.2.6 Night Shift
* 2.3 Application features
* 2.3.1 Photos
* 2.3.2 Safari and Apple Pay
* 2.3.3 Messages
* 2.3.4 iTunes
* 2.3.5 Notes
* 2.3.6 Other changes
* 2.4 Security improvements
* 2.4.1 Gatekeeper
* 2.4.2 Directory permissions and sudo
* 2.5 Removed functionality
* 2.6 Reinstallation
* 3 Reception
* 4 Release history
* 5 Timeline of Mac operating systems
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## System requirements

macOS Sierra requires at least 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of storage space and is designed to run on the following products:[7]

* iMac (Late 2009 or later)
* MacBook (Late 2009 or later)
* MacBook Air (Late 2010 or later)
* MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 or later)
* Mac Mini (Mid 2010 or later)
* Mac Pro (Mid 2010 or later)

Sierra dropped support for various Macs released from mid 2007 to mid 2009, the first version of macOS since OS X Mountain Lion, released in 2012, to do so.[8] Support for Xserve was also dropped in Sierra.

### Workarounds for unsupported systems

Developers have created workarounds to install macOS Sierra on some Mac computers that are no longer officially supported as long as they are packed with a CPU that supports SSE4.1.[9] This requires using a patch to modify the install image.[10]

## Changes

### Default wallpaper

The default desktop picture is an image of Lone Pine Peak.

### System features

#### Siri

A demonstration of Siri on macOS Sierra Beta

The user can access the Siri intelligent assistant via the Dock, the menu bar or a keyboard shortcut and results are shown in a window in the upper-right corner.[11] Siri can send messages, search the web, find files and adjust settings. Results can be dropped into other applications or pinned to Notification Center.[11] For instance, pictures from search results can be dragged into a document.

#### iCloud Drive and Optimized Storage

This image shows what the Optimized Storage suggestions are.

iCloud Drive can upload the user's documents and desktop directories and sync them to other devices. The System Information application has a new section that gives the user detailed information about space usage per application or file and provides tools and suggestions for freeing up space. For instance, the user can let the system upload old files to iCloud Drive and remove their local copies, keeping them available on-demand in Finder. It can also remove old files from trash automatically. iTunes can delete watched, purchased films and TV programs from its library.[12][13]

#### Auto Unlock and Universal Clipboard

Building upon Continuity, an "umbrella term [for] features that facilitate the communication between [Apple devices]" using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, Sierra adds two features.[12] With Auto Unlock, the user can unlock their user account by holding a paired Apple Watch close to the device. Time of flight is used to prevent relay attacks. Auto Unlock requires a Mac that was introduced in 2013 or later. With Universal Clipboard, the user can share the clipboard for cut, copy and paste between macOS Sierra and iOS 10 devices, including text and rich content, such as pictures or videos.

#### Tabs and Picture-in-Picture

Applications that support multiple windows can support multiple tabs within a single window, allowing the user to keep windows organized similarly to Safari.[14] With Picture-in-Picture, videos can be played in a window that follows the user across the system.[15]

#### Apple File System

Apple released a preview of a new file system in Sierra, called Apple File System (APFS), to overcome the limitations of HFS Plus. APFS is intended for solid-state drives and flash memory and adopts several features found in modern file systems, such as snapshots and cloning, as well as native support for features that Apple already provides in HFS Plus through supplementary software, such as file-system encryption and TRIM support. The file system was released in macOS High Sierra.[16]

#### Night Shift

Night Shift is new in macOS 10.12.4, with the same functionality as its iOS counterpart. Night Shift reduces blue light at night to aid sleep. This can be scheduled in the System Preferences app (in the Displays menu) and can be toggled on or off in the Notification Center or using Siri.[17]

Since this feature relies on the Metal framework, Night Shift is not available on all systems that support macOS Sierra.[18]

### Application features

#### Photos

Apple says it has improved the face recognition of the Photos application, adding object and scene recognition. It groups similar pictures together using faces, locations and object recognition to create "memories". Memories contain picture slideshows with transitions and music selected by the algorithm, which can be modified to the user's liking. The "People" album organizes photos by the people in them, and Places shows all photos on a world map.

#### Safari and Apple Pay

Safari provides an "extension point" which enables developers to bundle Safari extensions within their Cocoa applications and communicate with them directly from the applications.[19] Safari conceals the presence of installed "legacy" plug-ins, such as Adobe Flash Player, Java applets, Microsoft Silverlight, and QuickTime – from websites and requires the user to enable a specific plug-in on a per-use or per-website basis.[12]

Apple Pay allows vendors to embed an Apple Pay button on their websites. In Safari, users can click the Apple Pay button to check out, then complete a purchase using an iPhone or Apple Watch. Apple Pay requires a Mac that supports Continuity (2012 or later models) and either an iPhone 6 or later with iOS 10, or an Apple Watch with watchOS 3.

#### Messages

The Messages app adds aesthetic effects to messages, such as three times bigger emojis and click back with hearts or thumbs-up on a message bubble.[20] The ability to play YouTube videos and preview links in a conversation was introduced.[21] Users can view interactive content added to iMessage in iOS 10. The app also allows you to turn on or off read receipts on a conversation by conversation basis.[22][23]

#### iTunes

Apple Music within iTunes has been redesigned, making it simpler to find favorite songs and discover new ones. A new "For You" tab has been added, which suggests new music the user might like (similar to the existing Genius). A refined MiniPlayer with the ability to view lyrics while listening has also been introduced.[24]

#### Notes

The Notes app allows the user to share and collaborate on notes. This is done by clicking on a share button at the top of the window.[24]

#### Other changes

* Disk Utility regains the ability to format and manage RAID sets, after it was removed in El Capitan.[12][25]
* Finder has an option to show folders always at the top of the view hierarchy, for instance in list views.[12]
* Mail adds a control to the top of email lists to quickly filter them, for instance, by read status or the presence of attachments.[12]
* 13 & 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros now default to integer scaled over nearest-neighbor scaled resolutions to fit more content.

### Security improvements

#### Gatekeeper

macOS Sierra slightly changes the Gatekeeper user interface and adds two new mechanisms. A new default in System Preferences hides the "Anywhere" option which allows the user to disable the mechanism and execute programs from any source without needing to approve each new one individually.

The first new mechanism allows developers to code-sign disk images that can be verified as a unit by the system. This allows developers to guarantee the integrity of external files that are distributed alongside the application bundle on the same disk image. An attacker could infect these external files with malicious code and with them exploit a vulnerability in the application, without having to break the signature of the application bundle itself. By signing the disk image, the developer can prevent tampering and force an attacker to repackage the files onto a new disk image, requiring a valid developer certificate to pass Gatekeeper without a warning.[26]

The second new mechanism is "path randomization", which executes application bundles from a random, hidden path and prevents them from accessing external files relative to their location. To avoid this, the developer has to distribute the application bundle and its external files on a signed disk image or in a signed installer package. The user can avoid this mechanism by moving the application bundle without its external files to a new location.[26]

#### Directory permissions and sudo

The Unix permissions for writing to the /Volumes directory are now restricted to root and no longer "world-writable".[27] Apple expanded System Integrity Protection to /Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC,[28] a directory that contains a list of applications that are allowed to "control the computer", and restricts write access to programs which were signed with an Apple "private entitlement". The file-hosting service Dropbox has been criticized for manipulating the directory to add their Dropbox application to the list, rather than asking the user to do it for them explicitly in System Preferences.[29]

The sudo command-line utility with which a user can execute a command as another user, typically as root, is configured with the "tty_tickets" flag by default, restricting the session timeout to the terminal session (such as a window or tab) in which the user authenticated the program.[30]

### Removed functionality

Sierra removes support for garbage collection from the Objective-C runtime,[31] a memory-management system that was added in Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5) and declared deprecated in favor of Automatic Reference Counting in OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8).[32][33] Applications that have been compiled with garbage collection will no longer run.

Apple removed native support for the VPN protocol PPTP and made recommendations for alternatives that it considers more secure.[34]

The battery's "time remaining" estimate was removed in the 10.12.2 update after complaints of the battery life of 2016 MacBook Pros.[35][36][37]

The Game Center app has been removed.[24] However, the service still exists.

### Reinstallation

Following the download of macOS Sierra (10.12) from the Mac App Store, the installer does not show under a user's "Purchased" tab in the Mac App Store app. Users can still re-download the Sierra installer by visiting the macOS Sierra page on the Mac App Store.[38]

## Reception

macOS Sierra has received generally positive reviews. Users and critics have praised its functionality, including the addition of Siri and support for Apple Pay in Safari.[39] Macworld gave it 4.5 stars out of 5.[40] Engadget gave it a rating of 87 out of 100 praising the new features such as Siri integration, Universal Clipboard, and Apple Pay while criticizing the unreliability of Auto Unlock, that "Siri isn't always smart enough", and that some of the Messages features are only available on iOS 10.[41] Developers of apps that rely on the PDFKit library built into macOS have complained that radical changes to PDFKit introduced in Sierra are causing instability and potential data corruption.[42]

## Release history

Version  | Build  | Release date  | Darwin version  | Release notes  | Standalone download

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10.12  | 16A323  | September 20, 2016  | 16.0.0  | Original Mac App Store release  | N/A
10.12.1  | 16B2555  | October 24, 2016  | 16.1.0  | About the macOS Sierra 10.12.1 Update | macOS Sierra 10.12.1 Update
16B2657  | October 27, 2016
10.12.2  | 16C67  | December 13, 2016  | 16.3.0  | About the macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Update | macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Update
macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Combo Update
16C68  | December 14, 2016
10.12.3  | 16D32  | January 23, 2017  | 16.4.0  | About the macOS Sierra 10.12.3 Update | macOS Sierra 10.12.3 Update
macOS Sierra 10.12.3 Combo Update
10.12.4  | 16E195  | March 27, 2017  | 16.5.0  | About the macOS Sierra 10.12.4 Update | macOS Sierra 10.12.4 Update
macOS Sierra 10.12.4 Combo Update
10.12.5  | 16F73  | May 15, 2017  | 16.6.0  | About the macOS Sierra 10.12.5 Update | macOS Sierra 10.12.5 Update
macOS Sierra 10.12.5 Combo Update
16F2073  | June 5, 2017
10.12.6  | 16G29  | July 19, 2017  | 16.7.0  | About the macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Update | macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Update
macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Combo Update
16G1036  | October 31, 2017  | About the security content of Security Update 2017-001 Sierra | ~~Security Update 2017-001 Sierra~~
16G1114  | December 6, 2017  | About the security content of Security Update 2017-002 Sierra | Security Update 2017-002 Sierra
16G1212  | January 23, 2018  | About the security content of Security Update 2018-001 Sierra | Security Update 2018-001 Sierra
16G1314  | March 29, 2018  | About the security content of Security Update 2018-002 Sierra | Security Update 2018-002 Sierra
16G1408  | June 1, 2018  | About the security content of Security Update 2018-003 Sierra | Security Update 2018-003 Sierra
16G1510  | July 9, 2018  | About the security content of Security Update 2018-004 Sierra | Security Update 2018-004 Sierra
16G1618  | October 30, 2018  | About the security content of Security Update 2018-005 Sierra | Security Update 2018-005 Sierra
16G1710  | December 5, 2018  | About the security content of Security Update 2018-006 Sierra | Security Update 2018-006 Sierra
16G1815  | January 22, 2019  | About the security content of Security Update 2019-001 Sierra | Security Update 2019-001 Sierra
16G1917  | March 25, 2019  | About the security content of Security Update 2019-002 Sierra | Security Update 2019-002 Sierra
16G1918  | March 29, 2019  | About the security content of Security Update 2019-002 Sierra | Security Update 2019-002 Sierra
16G2016  | May 14, 2019  | About the security content of Security Update 2019-003 Sierra | Security Update 2019-003 Sierra
~~16G2127~~ | July 22, 2019  | About the security content of Security Update 2019-004 Sierra | ~~Security Update 2019-004 Sierra~~
16G2128  | July 29, 2019  | About the security content of Security Update 2019-004 Sierra | ~~Security Update 2019-004 Sierra~~
16G2136  | September 26, 2019  | About the security content of Security Update 2019-005 Sierra | Security Update 2019-005 Sierra

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18. ↑ "How to Use Night Shift in macOS Sierra 10.12.4" (in en). https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/night-shift-macos-sierra-10-12-4.
19. ↑ "Safari App Extension Programming Guide: Safari App Extensions". https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/documentation/NetworkingInternetWeb/Conceptual/SafariAppExtension_PG/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40017319.
20. ↑ "How to use Messages effects in macOS Sierra". iMore. http://www.imore.com/how-use-messages-effects-macos-sierra.
21. ↑ "10 tiny macOS Sierra features I love". iMore. http://www.imore.com/10-tiny-features-i-love-about-macos-sierra.
22. ↑ "7 hidden features in macOS Sierra you may have missed". Macworld. http://www.macworld.com/article/3122961/macs/7-hidden-features-in-macos-sierra-you-may-have-missed.html.
23. ↑ "How to Use Read Receipts on the iPhone and Mac" (in en-US). TekRevue. https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/imessage-read-receipts-iphone-mac.
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25. ↑ "How to configure a software RAID in macOS Sierra's Disk Utility". Macworld. http://www.macworld.com/article/3095835/storage/how-to-configure-a-software-raid-in-macos-sierra-s-disk-utility.html.
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28. ↑ Gruber, John (September 20, 2016). "Dropbox's macOS Security Hack". http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/20/dropbox-macos-security.
29. ↑ Pauli, Darren (September 13, 2016). "Dropbox apologies for clunky administrator account access on Macs". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/13/dropbox_mac_security.
30. ↑ Trouton, Rich (September 21, 2016). "tty_tickets option now on by default for macOS Sierra's sudo tool". https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/tty_tickets-option-now-on-by-default-for-macos-sierras-sudo-tool.
31. ↑ "Xcode Release Notes". May 29, 2018. Section "Xcode 8.3". https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-Xcode/Chapters/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001051. "OS X 10.11 was the last major release of macOS that supported the previously deprecated garbage collection runtime. Applications or features that depend upon garbage collection may not function properly or will not launch in macOS Sierra. Developers should use Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) or manual retain/release for memory management instead. (20589595)"
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34. ↑ "Prepare for removal of PPTP VPN before you upgrade to iOS 10 and macOS Sierra". July 16, 2016. https://support.apple.com/HT206844.
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39. ↑ "macOS Sierra review: Six big ways it's going to change your Apple experience". https://www.cnet.com/products/apple-macos-sierra-review.
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42. ↑ "Sierra PDF Problems Get Worse in 10.12.2". January 2, 2017. https://tidbits.com/article/16966.

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