No More Updates For Mac Catalina

macOS Catalina updates improve the stability, performance, or compatibility of your Mac and are recommended for all Catalina users. To get these updates, choose System Preferences from the Apple menu , then click Software Update. Learn more about updating the software on your Mac.

See the updates live on your Mac as you mark them up on your iPad. MacOS Catalina adds more international braille tables and lets you quickly switch between them. 4K and 4K HDR content is available on certain Mac models. For more information, see this support article. Oct 12, 2019 Apple’s latest Mac update, macOS Catalina, was released earlier this week, and with it came a flurry of complications both minor and major. For one, this update is the first for Apple to drop 32.

For details about the security content of these updates, see Apple Security Updates.

macOS 10.15

macOS Catalina 10.15.5

macOS Catalina 10.15.5 introduces battery health management in the Energy Saver settings for notebooks, a new option to disable automatic prominence in Group FaceTime calls, and controls to fine-tune the built-in calibration of your Pro Display XDR. The update also improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac.

Battery Health Management

Battery health management to help maximize battery lifespan for Mac notebooks
Energy Saver preference pane now displays battery condition and recommends if the battery needs to be serviced
Option to disable battery health management
For more information, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211094

FaceTime Prominence Preference

New option to control automatic prominence on Group FaceTime calls, so video tiles do not change size when a participant speaks

Calibration Fine-Tuning for Pro Display XDR

Controls to fine-tune the built-in calibration of your Pro Display XDR by adjusting the white point and luminance for a precise match to
your own display-calibration target

This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements:

Fixes an issue that may prevent Reminders from sending notifications for recurring reminders
Addresses an issue that may prevent password entry on the login screen
Fixes an issue where System Preferences would continue to show a notification badge even after installing an update
Resolves an issue where the built-in camera may not be detected when trying to use it after using a video conferencing app
Addresses an issue for Mac computers with the Apple T2 Security Chip where internal speakers may not appear as a sound output device in Sound preferences
Fixes a stability issue with uploading and downloading media files from iCloud Photo Library while your Mac is asleep
Resolves a stability issue when transferring large amounts of data to RAID volumes
Fixes an issue where the Reduced Motion Accessibility preference did not reduce the speed of animations in a Group FaceTime call

Enterprise content:

Improves performance on certain Mac models when enabling hardware acceleration in GPU-intensive apps such as those used for video conferencing
Addresses an issue where Microsoft Exchange accounts were unable to sign in during account setup when using Conditional Access
Apple Push Notification Service traffic now uses a web proxy when specified in a PAC file via the Proxies payload
Resolves an issue that prevented some displays connected to MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) from waking from sleep when the Mac wakes
Major new releases of macOS are no longer hidden when using the softwareupdate(8) command with the --ignore flag
This change also affects macOS Mojave and macOS High Sierra after installing Security Update 2020-003.

macOS Catalina 10.15.4

macOS Catalina 10.15.4 introduces iCloud Drive folder sharing, Screen Time communication limits, Apple Music time-synced lyrics view, and more. The update also improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac.

Finder

iCloud Drive folder sharing from Finder
Controls to limit access only to people you explicitly invite, or to grant access to anyone with the folder link
Permissions to choose who can make changes and upload files, and who can only view and download files

Screen Time

Communication limits for controlling who your children can communicate with and be contacted by throughout the day and during downtime
Playback control of music videos for your children

Music

Time-synced lyrics view for Apple Music, including the ability to jump to your favorite part of a song by clicking a line in lyrics view

Safari

Option to import Chrome passwords into your iCloud Keychain for easy AutoFill of your passwords in Safari and across all your devices
Controls for duplicating a tab and for closing all tabs to the right of the current tab
HDR playback support on compatible computers for Netflix content

App Store with Apple Arcade

Universal Purchase support enables the use of a singular purchase of a participating app across iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV

Pro Display XDR

Customized reference modes that you can tailor to specific workflow needs by selecting from several color gamut, white point, luminance, and transfer function options

Accessibility

Head pointer preference for moving a cursor on the screen based on the precise movements of your head

This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements:

High Dynamic Range output to HDR10-compatible third-party displays and TVs connected with DisplayPort or HDMI
OAuth authentication support with Outlook.com accounts for improved security
CalDav migration support when upgrading to iCloud reminders on a secondary device
Addresses an issue where text copied between apps may appear invisible when Dark Mode is active
Resolves an issue in Safari where a CAPTCHA tile may display incorrectly
Fixes an issue where you may receive notifications for updated or completed reminders
Fixes an issue with screen brightness for the LG UltraFine 5K display after waking from sleep

Enterprise content:

Apple Push Notification Service traffic now uses a web proxy when specified in a PAC file
Resolves an issue where updating the login keychain password after resetting a user password would cause a new keychain to be created
After enabling ”Search directory services for certificates” in Keychain Access preferences, searching by email address in Keychain Access or Mail now locates a user certificate stored in directory services
When setting the DisableFDEAutoLogin key in com.apple.loginwindow, you can now sync your FileVault password with the Active Directory user password after updating the user password
Reinstates the ability to update or restore iOS, iPadOS, or tvOS devices by dragging .ipsw files to the device in an Apple Configurator 2 window
Addresses an issue where sending the EraseDevice MDM command might not cause the device to be erased
When logging in as an Active Directory user after using deferred FileVault enablement, the user is now prompted for their password to enable FileVault

Some features may not be available for all regions, or on all Apple devices.

macOS Catalina 10.15.3

The macOS Catalina 10.15.3 update improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users.

Optimizes gamma handling of low gray levels on Pro Display XDR for SDR workflows when using macOS
Improves multi-stream video editing performance for HEVC and H.264-encoded 4K video on the MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)

macOS Catalina 10.15.2

The macOS Catalina 10.15.2 update improves the stability, reliability and performance of your Mac and is recommended for all users.

This update adds the following features:

Apple News

New layout for Apple News+ stories from The Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers

Stocks

Get links to related stories or more stories from the same publication at the end of an article
“Breaking” and “Developing” labels for Top Stories
Stories from Apple News are now available in Canada in English and French

This update includes the following bug fixes:

Music

Restores the column browser view for managing the music library
Resolves an issue that may prevent album artwork from appearing
Fixes an issue that may reset music equalizer settings during playback

iTunes Remote

Adds support for using an iPhone or iPad to remotely control the Music and TV apps on a Mac

Photos

Resolves an issue that may cause some AVI and MP4 files to appear as unsupported
Fixes an issue that prevents newly created folders from appearing in Albums view
Addresses an issue where manually sorted images in an album may be printed or exported out of order
Fixes an issue that prevents the zoom-to-crop tool from working in a print preview

Mail

Addresses an issue that may cause Mail preferences to open with a blank window
Resolves an issue that may prevent using undo from retrieving deleted mail

Other

Improves the reliability of syncing books and audiobooks to your iPad or iPhone through the Finder
Fixes an issue where reminders may be out of order in the Today smart list in the Reminders app
Resolves an issue that may cause slow typing performance in the Notes app

Enterprise content

Fixes an issue where the user password might not be accepted at the login window after upgrading a Mac with an Apple T2 Security Chip to macOS Catalina
Improves compatibility with video conferencing apps on MacBook Pro models introduced in 2018
Users logged in as a standard user can now install apps from the App Store

macOS Catalina 10.15.1

The macOS Catalina 10.15.1 update includes updated and additional emoji, support for AirPods Pro, HomeKit Secure Video, HomeKit-enabled routers, and new Siri privacy settings, as well as bug fixes and improvements.

Emoji

Over 70 new or updated emoji, including animals, food, activities, new accessibility emoji, gender-neutral emoji, and skin tones selection for couple emoji

AirPods support

AirPods Pro support

Home app

HomeKit Secure Video enables you to privately capture, store, and view encrypted video from your security cameras and features people, animal, and vehicle detection
HomeKit enabled routers let you control how your HomeKit accessories communicate over the internet or in your home
Adds support for AirPlay 2-enabled speakers in scenes and automations

Siri

Privacy settings to control whether or not to help improve Siri and Dictation by allowing Apple to store audio of your Siri and Dictation interactions
Option to delete your Siri and Dictation history from Siri Settings

This update also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

Restores the ability to view file names in the All Photos view in Photos
Restores the ability to filter by favorites, photos, videos, edited, and keywords in Days view in Photos
Fixes an issue where Messages would only send a single notification when the option to repeat alerts was enabled
Resolves an issue that caused Contacts to launch to the previously opened contact instead of the contact list
Adds a two-finger swipe gesture for back navigation in Apple News
Resolves issues that may occur in the Music app when displaying playlists inside folders and newly added songs in the Songs list
Improves reliability of migrating iTunes library databases into the Music, Podcasts, and TV apps
Fixes an issue where downloaded titles were not visible in the Downloads folder in the TV app

Enterprise content

When using the built-in keyboard with a non-U.S. keyboard layout, passwords with certain characters are no longer rejected at the Mac login window
When sign in with Apple ID is not allowed by a configuration profile, the Sign In button in System Preferences is now dimmed

macOS Catalina 10.15

Some users have encountered an issue regarding their App Store is not showing updates after updating to High Catalina or Mac Not Getting new macOS updates. Usually when an update for a particular app releases it directly showed in the App Store. But here the scene is the app displays the keyword that “Update your App” and when you open the App Store to update the app where you will get pop-up displaying “No Update Available”. So we can guess there is a disconnection between App Store updates and App Store badge. Or Sometimes app store stuck at checking for updates.

In some cases, it also happens that your application is up to date through the badge is showing that the app needed update, this is called ghost updates. So let’s not discuss all these errors we will directly check out some troubleshooting tips for this.

Catalina Update For Mac

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Fixes for App Store Not Showing Updates on macOS Catalina, High Sierra, Sierra, EI Capitan, Yosemite

Step 1: Open Safari Browser on Mac.
Step 2: Open This MacOS Catalina app store link on Safari Browser.
Step 3: Click on View App Store. Now Safari launches Mac App Store on your mac and Option for Download MacOS Catalia. Click on the Get button to start the download.
Sometimes it will take a few seconds to open another window while the mac is slow. Fater that Click on the download button to start the download process. After download complete install.

Note: Stoped Download error, Repeat the steps again and Start the download again from the left or stopped. Your Mac will not download the setup file from the beginning if it is stopped in-between.

Fix 1: Shut Down The Mac And Then Restart

Without trying any other tricks, we will refer to shut down the system and then turn it on again. However, it might be possible when the load on the processor increases and the App Store started misbehaving. So when you shut down the Mac for a while and then restart it, the App Store may start to recognize which app needs an update and which are up to date.

It is advisable not to restart the system, just shut down fully to give a fresh start to operating system and processors. If you will restart the Mac, then the Mac reloads the OS, and it is a waste of time.

Fix 2: Change some Settings from App Store

After performing the first tip still if you’re not getting a positive result then try to change some settings of the App Store.

Step #1: Launch “System Preference”.
- - Step #2: Then Open Software Update
    Note: if any pending update found then you get the Update button. Like screen – An update is available for your mac with the Update nowbutton. [in some case, if your mac running with Beta profile then you won’t see update now button, in such case, you will have to remove beta profile on your Apple Mac and after that go to the next step]
Step #3: Toggle ON the “automatically check for updates” and also turn on all the below options.

As soon as you turn on all these options, the system will actively search for the app updated along with system updates. The app updates and system updates will download and automatically get install on Mac.

Also check app is updated automatically, close app and re-launch app. And the Result: “Mac app store says no updates available”.

After some time click on Check Now and see this trick makes any changes or not.

Check internet connection: Try other WiFi Network or Use Mobile personal hotspot to WiFi on Mac.
Check App Store Purchases.

Unwillingly if you have log-out from the App Store with your apple id, then it will never install any update on your Mac. However, by opening Purchase, you will come to know whether you are logged in or not. So now we will open purchases at the App Store.

There you will have to sign-in using your apple id and password, and after that, you will be able to see all your past purchases. Now give a try to update the applications.

Fix 3: Manually update apps and macOS

When you open the Purchase page, then in a particular app you will find an option to update that app. Likewise, you have to open all the apps and try to update them one by one, and so it is known as a manual method. This strategy sometimes solves our main problem.

Fix 4: Check featured

Now launch your App Store and click on Featured to discover the main page of the App Store. Search your app and open it.

There you may find an option to update that app if a new version is released. After this, there are chances that remaining all the apps shows updates in the update section. Otherwise one by one finds your app and update.

Fix 5: Use terminal for checking Updates – Force Update

The terminal method should be used with precautions and by following step by step procedure. If you are using this method, then you will need all administrator privileges and admin password to execute commands.

Now follow the below command to download and install all the updates.

sudo softwareupdate -ia

After executing the command, the message will be displayed as “Finding Available Software”. If all the updates appear on the screen, and you want to install then type the command.

Sudo softwareupdate – -install – -all

Still, it is unresponsive then we have one more command which will uncover the issue regarding App Store.

defaults read com.apple.appstore

Fix 6: Clear out App Store caches with the help of finder

Now we will take of Finder to complete our task.

Clear App Store cache

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Step 1: Launch Finder and press command + shift + G.
Step 2: Or open “Go Menu” and then select “Go to Folder”.
Step 3: Type ~/Library/Caches/.
Step 4: Delete the folder “com.apple.appstore” from it.
Step 5: Again, follow step 1 or step 2 to open.
Step 6: Type /private/var/folders.
Step 7: Open all the folders and subfolders to find “com.apple.appstore” and delete that folder.
Step 8: Restart Mac.

Fix 7: Delete App Store Preference

Step 1: Launch “Finder” and press command + shift + G.
Step 2: Else open “Go menu” and select “Go to Folder”.
Step 3: Type ~/Library/Preferences/com.
Step 4: Search and delete com.apple.appstore.plistfile.
Step 5: Again, follow the same step 1.
Step 6: Type ~/Library/Preferences/com.
Step 7: Find com.apple.storeagent.plist and delete it.
Step 8: Restart Mac.

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