#MACBOOK PRO SOFTWARE UPDATE FAILED INSTALL#

Many users are reporting that after rebooting and attempting to upgrade again-in some cases, after rebooting and trying several times-the upgrade does go through properly. Until we have more concrete information on the condition causing softwareupdate to erroneously request 11.0.1 instead of 11.1, there's no guaranteed way to fix the issue. It isn't even possible to use a custom URL for softwareupdate anymore. Update packages must come directly from Apple, and they must be managed by the softwareupdate process itself. Unfortunately, Apple has deprecated combo update packages-there is no manual package to download or install.Īs of macOS Big Sur, the format of the updates has changed-and they can no longer be installed without Internet access. One seemingly obvious workaround would be to just directly download and manually apply the update package for Big Sur 11.1. AdvertisementĬan I just download the 11.1 update manually? That said, mortals should not try this workaround lightly messing with MDM has potentially severe impacts on system security, and there's no guarantee that re-enrolling the Mac in its workplace will go smoothly, either. Removing the MDM profile-for you non-Mac folks and non-sysadmins, that's Apple's misleadingly named Mobile Device Management service, which allows education and enterprise orgs to manage and 'supervise' fleets of macOS and iOS devices-also makes the update visible.

#MACBOOK PRO SOFTWARE UPDATE FAILED INSTALL#

Restarting the affected system will make the update visible again-but that may or may not help if the next attempt to install 11.1 generates the same erroneous 11.0.1 request, the problem behavior will simply repeat itself. According to Vrantchan, making the erroneous request 'somehow corrupts the state of the software update process,' resulting in a system that no longer presents the update as an option in System Preferences at all. While the erroneous requests themselves are clear enough, the breaking condition is less so.

Macbook pro software update failed