Download garageband for mac mojave install#
Download garageband for mac mojave upgrade#

You should see your own name in the Buyer section.Find a (close) friend with GarageBand installed on their macOS.

Download garageband for mac mojave install#

If you had installed it on previous version macOS it would allow not to install a compatible previous version. This warning is received for applications that have not been installed before. GarageBand 10.4 and later require macOS Big Sur. On macOS Catalina when the download completes you'll have GarageBand 10.3.5, which is the last compatible version. The current version requires macOS 11.0 or later, but you can download the last compatible versionĬlick the download button. You'll be greeted with a different dialog window:

From the App Purchase History page click the download button.If you try either of the above methods you'll be greeted with the same error message as earlier: You cannot click on the download button from the GarageBand app page.

You cannot click on the download button from the app Search results.

Now, there are two ways you cannot install GarageBand 10: You may need to Sign Out/Sign In a couple of times, or even reboot your Mac, but it should appear within a few minutes. You don't need to let the download finish, you can cancel it.īack on your own Mac App Store (on Sierra through Catalina) you should be able to go to your App Purchase History (click on your Apple ID in the bottom-left corner of the window) to see the new GarageBand app at the top of the list, being your most recent purchase. To get around this you need to get some screen time on a Big Sur or Monterey system: GarageBand can't be installed on 'Macintosh SSD' because macOS version 11 or later is required. If you never 'purchased' the free GarageBand 10 app before Big Sur came out you're not going to be able to click the Get/Install buttons for it on Sierra-Catalina now due to the store validation logic throwing the error message:

Download garageband for mac mojave upgrade#

This app has the Package ID: 10īecause it has a different Package ID, GarageBand 10.x is not considered to be an upgrade from GarageBand 6.0.5 by the Mac App Store, but an entirely different app. This is the modern GarageBand app that was released with OS X 10.9 Mavericks back in 2013, currently in the 10.0.0-10.4.4 version range. It is a 32-bit app and so won't work on 64-bit-only operating systems like macOS Catalina, Big Sur and Monterey. This was the GarageBand app released with iLife '11 package back in 2010, in the 6.0.1-6.0.5 version range, and is probably what a lot of long-time Mac users have already. There are currently two entirely different GarageBand apps in the macOS App Store: