Confused on forcing update to Sequoia

[JUMA55]

In the 14 years I've been using Macs I've always updated to the "latest and greatest" OS and have had very minor problems along the way. When Sequoia was released, I backed everything up three ways, download the full installer from Mr. Macintosh, reformatted my internal, installed Sequoia and began the laborious process of reinstalling everything from scratch.

I'm using a 2019 iMac 5K with an Intel i9. I knew my iMac wouldn't support all of Sequoia's new features--and I was fine with that--but I expected Find My, for example, to find the same people it always did. It didn't and other stuff didn't work either. I'm not going to bore everyone with what I've done in trying different betas, developer versions, etc. But I've reached the point where I'm thinking I should call Sequoia a bust with this Mac and go back to Sonoma.

Before I do that, however, I'd like to know if once I get Sonoma going and running is the system going to force me to update to Sequoia whether I want to or not? I seem to remember that years ago I wanted to keep an old machine on Mojave and it updated itself to Catalina. And if one stays with Sonoma how does one get security patches and updates to Safari?

Thank all of you for your help.

 

[russell_314]

From my understanding, you can still get security updates without updating to a major version. I believe there is some security features that are included with a new version of the OS that you might not get though. I usually don’t update till at least the .1 version comes out.

 

[JUMA55]

From my understanding, you can still get security updates without updating to a major version. I believe there is some security features that are included with a new version of the OS that you might not get though. I usually don’t update till at least the .1 version comes out.

Thank you for the reply. I've got lots of problems with Sequoia 15.1, so it's either try the 15.2 beta or go back to Sonoma.

 

[JUMA55]

From my understanding, you can still get security updates without updating to a major version. I believe there is some security features that are included with a new version of the OS that you might not get though. I usually don’t update till at least the .1 version comes out.

I'll check it out in the next week or so and let you know. Thank you for the response.