Problems installing most App Store apps on 10.15.7

[BornABruin]

I have a late 2012 Mac mini with Catalina installed (10.15.7). Things are running fine on Catalina. When I go to the App Store and try to install applications, a high percentage of the apps will throw an error saying something like “<<app name>> can’t be installed on Samsung 860 Pro because macOS version X.XX or later is required”. But in every case I have a more current version of macOS (10.15.7) installed!

I first was trying to install iMovie as I need to import some mini DV tapes and my old Mac Mini is nice because it has Firewire ports. But then I started trying other more current apps like MS Excel, What’sApp, etc.. Most of them throw similar errors.

Has anyone run across this and know of a workaround or fix?




Some examples of what I've tried:

App	Success/Failure and Error Message
Evernote	Installed Correctlly
Affinity Photo 2	Installed Correctlly
iMovie	Needs 15.5 or later
MS Excel	Needs 12.3 or later
DuckDuckGo Browser	Needs 12.3 or later
GoodNotes 6	Needs 13.5 or later
What'sAPp	Needs 11.0 or later

 

[iStorm]

But in every case I have a more current version of macOS (10.15.7) installed!

I'm a bit confused on your statement here. All the apps you listed require a newer version than 10.15.7. Apple stopped using version 10 many years ago. It's actually macOS 11, macOS 12, macOS 13, and so on now. So when they say it requires 15.5 or later, they mean 15.5 (or 15.5.0) ... not 10.15.5.

If you've downloaded these apps before, you can try redownloading them through your purchase history instead. It should then try to get the latest version compatible with your Mac/macOS.

Otherwise, you will need to find a newer Mac to make these "purchases" on in order to get them into your purchase history and then try the above. It's also possible some of these apps don't have a version that supports 10.5.7.

 

[BornABruin]

Doh! Color me confused. I thought the version 15 was referring 10.15 not 15.x. That makes a lot more sense! Thanks for the clarification.