Submitting apps to the Mac App Store. MacOS Big Sur will soon be in the hands of customers around the world. Update your Mac apps and product pages, and submit today.
The app from SEW-EURODRIVE is available free of charge at the App Store. For any questions, comments or suggestions, please send an email to sew@sew-eurodrive.de. SEW-EURODRIVE – Driving the World. For instance, currently, it is saying “Mac App Store – Completed Maintenance. 1.7% of users were affected. Customers may have been unable to make purchases from the App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or Mac App Store.” As you can see, the Mac App Store was down for some users, and but now it is fixed. Shut down your Mac. Turn on your Mac, then immediately press and hold the D key on your keyboard. Keep holding until you see a screen asking you to choose your language. When Apple Diagnostics knows your language, it displays a progress bar indicating that it's checking your Mac: Checking your Mac takes 2 or 3 minutes. Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Push Diagnostics. Download Push Diagnostics for macOS 10.12 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. Push Diagnostics is a simple to use utility that will quickly verify that the appropriate hosts can be reached on their respective ports from any network you are on.
To get the latest features and maintain the security, stability, compatibility, and performance of your Mac, it's important to keep your software up to date. Apple recommends that you always use the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac.
Learn how to upgrade to macOS Big Sur, the latest version of macOS.
Check compatibility
If a macOS installer can't be used on your Mac, the installer will let you know. For example, it might say that your Mac doesn't have enough free storage space for the installation, or that the installer is too old to be opened on this version of macOS.
If you want to check compatibility before downloading the installer, learn about the minimum requirements for macOS Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, or Yosemite. You can also check compatible operating systems on the product-ID page for MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, MacBook, iMac, Mac mini, or Mac Pro.
Make a backup
Before installing, it’s a good idea to back up your Mac. Time Machine makes it simple, and other backup methods are also available. Learn how to back up your Mac.
Download macOS
It takes time to download and install macOS, so make sure that you're plugged into AC power and have a reliable internet connection.
These installers from the App Store open automatically after you download them:
- macOS Catalina 10.15 can upgrade Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks
- macOS Mojave 10.14 can upgrade High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion
- macOS High Sierra 10.13 can upgrade Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion
Your web browser downloads the following older installers as a disk image named InstallOS.dmg or InstallMacOSX.dmg. Open the disk image, then open the .pkg installer inside the disk image. It installs an app named Install [Version Name]. Open that app from your Applications folder to begin installing the operating system.
- macOS Sierra 10.12 can upgrade El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion
- OS X El Capitan 10.11 can upgrade Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard
- OS X Yosemite 10.10can upgrade Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard
Install macOS
Follow the onscreen instructions in the installer. It might be easiest to begin installation in the evening so that it can complete overnight, if needed.
If the installer asks for permission to install a helper tool, enter the administrator name and password that you use to log in to your Mac, then click Add Helper.
Please allow installation to complete without putting your Mac to sleep or closing its lid. Your Mac might restart, show a progress bar, or show a blank screen several times as it installs both macOS and related updates to your Mac firmware.
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You might also be able to use use macOS Recovery to reinstall the macOS you're using now, upgrade to the latest compatible macOS, or install the macOS that came with your Mac.
Important changes to macOS 10.15.2
App Wrapper Notarization is not affected
With the macOS 10.15.2 update, Apple removed the text to say 'Apple checked it for malicious software and none was detected.' from the Gate Keeper dialog. App Wrapper's Notarization is working as it should, because your app will still work on macOS 10.15.2.
Introducing the 'Blackbird' engine
Faster and more accurate processing.
Version 3.10 of App Wrapper publicly introduces our 'Blackbird' (5th generation) post processing engine. It's built on a radical idea of how to asses the application's contents, which results in an engine that's far more modern, capable, thorough and faster.
| Notarization safe | ||
| Blackbird | 8.7s - 1.2x faster | |
| Apple's temp | 9.2s - 1.1x faster | |
| V3 engine | 10.3s | |
| Shorter is better. These tests were carried out on a 2015 MacBook running macOS 10.14.6, using the average of 5 tests each. Internet connection and Apple's servers affect this performance. | ||
We wanted to create an engine that's as thorough as our v3 engine, while being as fast as Apple's. Apple's was fast, but it often overlooked things which would result in an invalid code signature. Performance can be improved by disabling the 'Hardend runtime' in App Wrapper, Apple's Notarization will not approve the resulting app. With it disabled we recorded upto a 2.8x performance increase.
Make sure your apps are Notarized
For macOS 10.4.5 & macOS 10.15 Catalina.
App Wrapper 3.9 added support for Apple's Notarization, so you can make sure your apps are Notarized in time for macOS 10.15 Catalina's launch.
Once App Wrapper has finished wrapping your application, simply click the 'Notarize' button and your packages will be added to our Notarizer, from there submit to Apple, go make a cup of tea. Then release.
If you use a different process for creating installer packages, dmg files or even Zip files, than what's provided within App Wrapper; simply drag those packages into the Notarizer interface and App Wrapper will submit. We can even code sign DMG files for you when they're added.
Improved Application Diagnostics
Reduces MAS rejections, & improves apps.
| 123MAS rejection reasons | 72Critical issues |
| 37Possible improvements | 20Things it can auto fix |
The 'App Diagnostics' feature can detect upto 123 App Store rejection reasons, 72 critical issues, offer 37 possible improvements from a wide range of areas and when wrapping, App Wrapper can auto fix 20 issues (at the moment, expect this list to grow).
The diagnostics function also includes a 'Browser' allowing easy viewing into the contents of the Application bundle, along with viewing of various meta data and property-lists all without leaving App Wrapper.
So download a copy of App Wrapper today and see how it can help improve your apps and get them into the Mac App Store.
'Code signing an application is actually easy; providing of course of the application is simple and adheres to Apple's rules and guidelines, making apps conform is where App Wrapper really comes in handy.'
Save time, effort and money when preparing for deployment
One-Click to Code Sign, Sandbox & package apps.
Let App Wrapper take the chore out of application deployment. Once configured App Wrapper makes it super easy to prepare applications for App Store submission or web site distribution.
App Wrapper takes care of adding the required App Store properties, creating high resolution icons, code signing the application and its components, correcting the permissions, placing the app into a App Sandbox and packaging it in a signed installer or creating a zip file.
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'App Wrapper, the premium tool that we at Ohanaware and 100s of other developers rely on every day to prepare applications for deployment.'
Enhance Mac applications to take advantage of great features
Deliver a better experience, without the hard work
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Take advantage of Ohanaware's hard work when packaging an application, that'll make any application feel more consistent and more powerful, all with minimal effort on your behalf.
App Wrapper's intuitive interface also includes support for creating a custom Apple About Box, adding UTIs & URL Aliases, supporting document packages, adding high resolution document icons, providing Apple compatible help books, container migration, cleaner apps by removing unneeded languages, outdated architectures or left over development junk files. All by clicking a few buttons in App Wrapper.
'Use App Wrapper to help with submitting applications to the Mac App Store & deploying applications on a web site. It simplifies the code signing & App Sandbox with an easy intuitive interface, yet powerful engine underneath.'
Integrate with the Xojo development tool
and let App Wrapper enhance the workflow
App Wrapper's Xojo Script engine, is the latest iteration, creating much quicker to execute Xojo scripts; that can be integrated into Xojo projects, thus enabling Retina & Sandboxed applications during the development process, all while providing direct support for Xojo's debugger. The result is a severally reduced development time as debugging Retina or Sandboxing issues, are now as simple as Command-R.
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App Wrapper 3 includes 'Pre-Build' scripts, allowing App Wrapper to inform the Xojo IDE where the intended application is to be deployed, thus making it easier to use one code base to build App Store apps and apps for hosting on a web site. Code sign Xojo apps has never been easier.
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Geoff Perlman, CEO of Xojo Inc, had this to say about App Wrapper Mini 'App Wrapper Mini makes post-processing our internal OS X apps a breeze! And the fact that its made with Xojo, our very own multi-platform development tool, makes it even better!' App Wrapper 3 is superior in every way.