Why with updates does it get to where it requires update of Operating system

guymmoore

Just to be able to use quicken I had to get a new computer due to OS requirements. Now It is wanting me to upgrade the OS again. I did so but then couldn't use any of the equipment in my office as they were older and potentially obsolete. Though they work fine. When I quicken going to stop requiring updates that become unaffordable in terms of the effects.

Quicken Jasmine

Hello @guymmoore,

Thanks for reaching out! I do understand how frustrating this is.

Quicken for Mac now requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or later due to changes introduced in version 8.0. This follows our policy of supporting the current macOS and the two previous versions.

While older systems may still run Quicken, they're no longer officially supported, and future updates may stop working entirely. If upgrading the OS impacts your hardware, you could consider holding off on updates or exploring workarounds like virtualization tools to bridge the gap.

I hope this clears things up!

Jon

Apple itself drops support for older equipment & operating systems, both in their OS and in their development tools, and that has an effect on app developers. The current version of Xcode won't create apps that run on versions of Mac OS older than Big Sur (Mac OS 11), but if Quicken tried to keep using older versions of Xcode to keep supporting older versions of Mac OS, eventually they wouldn't be able to make software that would run on current Macs or Mac OS, and they also wouldn't be able to keep their app in the App store.

If you want to keep using old Macs and old versions of Mac OS, then you will eventually have to stop updating your apps as well. You can download older versions of Quicken from here, and you can look at the release notes here to see when they dropped support for various versions of Mac OS.

jacobs

Just to be able to use quicken I had to get a new computer due to OS requirements. Now It is wanting me to upgrade the OS again. I did so but then couldn't use any of the equipment in my office as they were older and potentially obsolete. Though they work fine.

@guymmoore This is just the way technology progresses: operating system upgrades require software application upgrades and older hardware without upgraded software may be left inoperable. Apple's annual operating system releases, and their implementation of tool changes under the hood each year, break older software and/or offer newer tools for added features which won't work on older operating systems. It's been this way pretty much since Apple started its free annual updates more than a decade ago.

For example, when I upgraded my two Macs to the current macOS Sequoia (macOS 15), my nearly two-decade-old HP all-in-one printer software no longer worked, so I couldn't do scanning. I accepted the reality, and since the printer was old and had other problems, I replaced it.

Quicken, like some other software vendors, officially supports the current macOS and the two OS versions before it. But the Quicken Mac developers often provide support for one or two versions of the operating system before that to still work. So while the current operating system is macOS 15, and macOS 14 and macOS 13 are the two prior versions officially supported by Quicken policy, Quicken Mac currently works on the older macOS 12 as well.

If you purchased a new Mac in the past few years, there shouldn't be software or hardware which isn't compatible. But if you have software or hardware which is 10, 12, 15 20 or more years old, you either have to freeze and indefinitely not upgrade anything — macOS or any software — to keep your old system running, or accept that there can be a domino effect with upgrades of any pieces of your system.