Excited about High Sierra, but don’t want to wait until autumn? The public beta is now available to try; here’s how to install it.
We’ve shown you the new features in High Sierra, coming fall 2017. Highlights include a new filesystem, a new version of Photos, and all sorts of useful tweaks to Safari.
You can try the new Safari features in Safari Technology Preview right now, without upgrading your operating system, so if that’s most of what interests consider doing that instead.But if you want an entire operating system’s worth of new features to play with, the Public Beta gives you access right now. As always, back up your Mac before proceeding! There’s a chance the install won’t work properly, and if that happens you’ll want a Time Machine backup to restore to.
This Is Not For Day-To-Day Computing
High Sierra is not ready for production machines at this point: if you install the public beta you can expect bugs and crashes. Do not try to use the High Sierra Beta as your primary operating system.
The best idea is probably to put High Sierra on a second Mac—one you don’t use for day-to-day work. I installed on an old MacBook Pro I keep around the house for exactly these sorts of things.
If you don’t have the luxury of a second Mac (after all, money doesn’t grow on trees), consider dual booting instead. Simply create a new partition with Disk Utility, with at least 20GB of space (more if you want to try a bunch of applications.) Label this partition something obvious, like “High Sierra.
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