About
OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a Mac app that extends macOS support to older hardware. It breathes new life into decade-old graphics cards, WiFi, and Bluetooth chipsets, and it can also unlock hardware features such as Hardware Acceleration, AirDrop, Apple Watch Unlock, and Sidecar.
The patcher uses the OpenCore boot manager to apply its protocol upgrades in memory, so there is zero firmware patching and the changes are never permanent. Software updates can be installed from System Settings, with a few additional steps compared to native updates.
The app also unlocks newer features such as Sidecar, AirPlay to Mac, Night Shift, and Universal Control, even on natively supported models. Users can find help from a community of tinkerers, developers, and dreamers.
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All release notesHomebrew cask opencore-patcher 2.5.1 (sha256 e4b65f633f97818b26135ba19e528e59dd100a986cf11bdcde62ef51f1e1603a).