{"id":209329,"date":"2026-02-02T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/important-software-updates-for-macos-big-sur-catalina-older-iphones-ipads-apple-watch-released\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:49:24","slug":"important-software-updates-for-macos-big-sur-catalina-older-iphones-ipads-apple-watch-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/important-software-updates-for-macos-big-sur-catalina-older-iphones-ipads-apple-watch-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Software Updates for MacOS Big Sur &#038; Catalina, Older iPhones, iPads, &#038; Apple Watch, Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2026\/02\/02\/important-software-updates-for-macos-big-sur-catalina-older-iphones-ipads-apple-watch-released\/\">Important Software Updates for MacOS Big Sur &#038; Catalina, Older iPhones, iPads, &#038; Apple Watch, Released<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2026\/02\/02\/important-software-updates-for-macos-big-sur-catalina-older-iphones-ipads-apple-watch-released\/\">https:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2026\/02\/02\/important-software-updates-for-macos-big-sur-catalina-older-iphones-ipads-apple-watch-released\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 17:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"osxdaily.com\">osxdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.osxdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apple-event-4-20-2021-610x358.jpg\" alt=\"Apple updates for older devices\" width=\"610\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-116502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.osxdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apple-event-4-20-2021-610x358.jpg 610w, https:\/\/cdn.osxdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apple-event-4-20-2021-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.osxdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apple-event-4-20-2021-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.osxdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apple-event-4-20-2021-1536x900.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.osxdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apple-event-4-20-2021.jpg 1590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple has released important software updates to a variety of older devices, including older model Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watch\u2019s. These new updates are released as macOS Big Sur 11.7.11 and macOS Catalina Security Update 2026-001 Catalina, iOS 16.7.14, iPadOS 16.7.14, watchOS 10.6.2, watchOS 9.6.4, and watchOS 6.3.1.<\/p>\n<p>According to release notes from Apple, these software updates extend necessary device activation certificates, allowing for services like iMessage and FaceTime to continue working after January 2027. Without installing these updates, device activation, FaceTime, and iMessage services, will stop working. This makes these updates important to install on any eligible device, though there\u2019s about 11 months technically before the features stop working.<\/p>\n<p>Specific devices eligible for these updates include many that have not otherwise been updated or supported in quite some time, including: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple Watch, as watchOS 10.6.2, watchOS 9.6.4, watchOS 6.3.1: Series 1, Series 2, Series 3, Series 4, and Series 5, Series 6, Series 7, Series 8, SE, SE 2, and Ultra <\/li>\n<li>Mac, as Security Update 2026-001 Catalina and macOS Big Sur 11.7.11<\/li>\n<li>iPhone &#038; iPad, as iOS 16.7.14 and iPadOS 16.7.14 : iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPad 5th generation, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, and iPad Pro 12.9-inch 1st generation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The updates included in these new software updates appear to be the same patch that was included in iOS 12.5.8 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 series. <\/p>\n<p>If you have an older model iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch, you\u2019ll want to check to make sure you don\u2019t miss these updates, or those issued the week prior, with the same patch.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Download &#038; Install MacOS Big Sur 11.7.1 &#038; macOS Catalina Security Update 2016-001<\/h2>\n<p>As always, backup your Mac with Time Machine before starting a software update:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From the \uf8ff\u00a0Apple menu go to \u201cSystem Preferences\u201d and then to \u2018Software Update\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Choose to install \u201cMacOS Big Sur 11.7.1\u201d or \u201cmacOS Catalina Security&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2026\/02\/02\/important-software-updates-for-macos-big-sur-catalina-older-iphones-ipads-apple-watch-released\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important Software Updates for MacOS Big Sur &#038; Catalina, Older iPhones, iPads, &#038; Apple Watch,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.osxdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/apple-rainbow-logo-original.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,130,57],"class_list":["post-209329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209331,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209329\/revisions\/209331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}