Upgrade to future macOS major releases

macOS Tahoe will be released on September 15th, 2025

(https://www.apple.com/os/macos/)

The EPM team has deployed a Deferral payload to all machines to stop macOS from prompting end users to upgrade their machines for 90 days. This payload was intended to

For sites that want to ensure end users do not upgrade macOS they can create stronger restrictions to block its installation.
- - (https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/technical-paper-deploying-macos-upgrades-current/page/Restricting_macOS_Software_Upgrades_and_Updates.html)

For Sites that would like to implement their own deferral payload for macOS updates please see this article from Jamf on how to enable that - https://learn.jamf.com/en-US/bundle/technical-paper-deploying-macos-upgrades-current/page/Deferring_maOS_Software_Upgrades_and_Updates.html

For admins, or any other parties that would like to upgrade to macOS Sequoia for testing, or any other reason we have enabled an Extension Attribute in Jamf Pro to allow a machine to upgrade to macOS Sonoma now.

Within Jamf Pro navigate to the machine you would like to upgrade on. Within the "Operating System" tab on the left you will see the new Extension Attribute for "Allow macOS upgrade (Sequoia)"

-By default this value is blank. Editing the inventory record and changing this status to "YES" will exclude this machine from the restriction.

Once the machine has been set to "YES" you can upgrade the machine using any method to macOS Sequoia.

For sites that want to ensure end users do not upgrade macOS they can create stronger restrictions to block its installation.
- - (https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/technical-paper-deploying-macos-upgrades-current/page/Restricting_macOS_Software_Upgrades_and_Updates.html)

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