When Does macOS Sonoma 14 Release? 26 September 2023

Sonoma 14.0 is the newest release of the macOS that run on Apple devices such as Macbooks, iMac, Mac Studio, and Mac Mini. It is the successor to macOS Ventura 13.0 which was released on October 24, 2022.

macOS Somoma was announced at Apple's WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) event that was held in 2023 on June 5, 2023.

Though it is not yet available for end-users, the first developer beta was released on June 5, 2023, and the first public beta was released on July 11, 2023.

We do not know the exact date when macOS Somoma will be released but looking at the past trends the final release date is not too far, it is likely that it will be released later this year by the fall, September, or October 2023.

List of Past macOS Announcements and Release Dates

macOS Version	Announcement Date	Release Date
El Capitan (10.11)	June 8, 2015	September 30, 2015
Sierra (10.12)	June 13, 2016	September 20, 2016
High Sierra (10.13)	June 5, 2017	September 25, 2017
Mojave (10.14)	June 4, 2018	September 24, 2018
Catalina (10.15)	June 3, 2019	October 7, 2019
Big Sur (11)	June 22, 2020	November 12, 2020
Monterey (12)	June 7, 2021	October 25, 2021
Ventura (13)	June 6, 2022	October 24, 2022
Sonoma (14)	June 5, 2023	Announced - 26 September 2023

From the past macOS releases, we can be quite sure that macOS Sonoma should be available by the end of September or October 2023.

We should get more information about it when the next Apple WWDC event happens.

So, the final release of macOS Sonoma is not far off, I will keep an eye on the developments and update this article with when the dates are announced.

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