macOS (formerly known as OS X or Mac OS X) is the desktop operating system from Apple, found on Macintosh computers. Use this tag only if your question relates to using macOS APIs or macOS-specific behavior, not because you happen to run your code on macOS. Questions relating to using or troubleshooting macOS are off-topic and belong in the Ask Different community instead.
macOS (formerly known as OS X until 2016 and Mac OS X until 2012) is the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., found on Macintosh computers.
Use this tag for questions about writing and debugging programs on macOS. Questions relating to using or troubleshooting macOS are off-topic (use apple.stackexchange.com instead).
macOS(macos) consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, operating system interfaces primarily based on FreeBSD (freebsd), and additional frameworks (written in C (c), C++ (c++), Objective-C (objective-c) and Swift (swift) providing user interface and application-level services.
It was the successor to Mac OS 9. macOS is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep operating systems developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.
Versions
- macOS Sonoma 14
- macOS Ventura 13
- macOS Monterey 12
- macOS Big Sur 11
- macOS Catalina 10.15
- macOS Mojave 10.14
- macOS High Sierra (10.13)
- macOS Sierra (10.12)
- OS X El Capitan (10.11)
- OS X Yosemite (10.10)
- OS X Mavericks (10.9)
- OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
- OS X Lion (10.7)
- OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)
- OS X Leopard (10.5)
- OS X Tiger (10.4)
- OS X Panther (10.3)
- OS X Jaguar (10.2)
- OS X Cheetah (10.1)
- OS X Puma (10.0)
