60 Macworld • January 2022

MACOS MONTEREY

Y

ou’ll find the latest version

of macOS – Monterey – in

the Software Update pane

in System Preferences.

However, if you want to update the

old-fashioned way, we’ll show you

Put the Monterey installer on an external USB thumb drive or hard

drive and use it to install the OS on a Mac. Roman Loyola reports

How to create a bootable

installer drive

what you need to create a bootable

macOS Monterey installation drive.

(These instructions are for the

officially released version of Monterey,

not a beta. It was performed on a Mac

running macOS Big Sur.)