To continue, you must enter your username and password.

What you may not know is that the installer is downloaded to your Applications folder and then deleted after the installation is done. Don’t click Continue in the installer just yet. When the download finishes, the installer automatically launches. This special banner appeared in the Updates section. You may have to enter your Apple ID name and password, and after you do, the installer will download.Īpple is heavily promoting El Capitan in the App Store. When you get to the El Capitan page in the App Store, click on the Download button. And you can always do a search on El Capitan. Apple will probably have a banner at the top promoting El Capitan, but if you don’t see one, you can probably find it in the Free section in the far right column (you might have to scroll down to see it). You’ll probably find El Capitan right away, especially if go to the App Store soon after the official release. To download El Capitan, launch the App Store app in your Applications folder (or go to Apple menu > App Store). Or you can use your Mac while you wait, but be ready to save your work and quit when the download is done. The download is a bit over 6GB, so you may want to download it at a time when you have other things to do-how long the download takes depends on your Internet connection and the amount of activity at the App Store. Open that app from your Applications folder to start installing the operating system.Apple provides the El Capitan upgrade through its App Store.

Safari will download the following older installers as a disk image named InstallOS.dmg or InstallMacOSX.dmg.

macOS High Sierra can upgrade Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion.

macOS Mojave can upgrade High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion.

macOS Catalina can upgrade Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks.

macOS Big Sur can upgrade Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks.

After you've downloaded the installer from the App Store, the installer will open automatically. Safari uses these links to find the old installers in the App Store.

Os x el capitan download link