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MacBook Pro · 2014

MacBook Pro 2014: the newest macOS it can run

Every MacBook Pro sold in 2014, what Apple supports, what OpenCore Legacy Patcher adds, and what to expect on each macOS version. Generated from the OCLP 3.0.0 source.

Checked against OCLP 3.0.0-rc.5 sourceUpdated 6 min read
On this page 6 sections
  1. Which MacBook Pro 2014 do you have?
  2. macOS versions compared
  3. Model by model
  4. Installing on the MacBook Pro 2014
  5. Common questions
  6. Other Macs from 2014

Short answer

Apple stopped at macOS Big Sur to macOS Monterey (depending on the model). With OpenCore Legacy Patcher the MacBook Pro 2014 runs macOS Big Sur through macOS Tahoe 26. Our pick for most people: macOS Sequoia. No Intel Mac can run macOS 27.

Which MacBook Pro 2014 do you have?

Apple sold 4 different models as the MacBook Pro 2014. They can behave differently with OCLP, so check your model identifier: choose Apple menu > About This Mac, then More Info > System Report, and read Model Identifier. Or open Terminal and run sysctl hw.model

IdentifierSold asGraphicsApple's last macOSOCLP
MacBookPro11,1MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)		Intel Iris / HD (Haswell)Big SurYes
MacBookPro11,2MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)		Intel Iris / HD (Haswell)Big SurYes
MacBookPro11,3MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)		Intel Iris / HD (Haswell)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 6xx/7xx (Kepler)		Big SurYes
MacBookPro11,5MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)		Intel Iris / HD (Haswell)
AMD Radeon / FirePro (GCN 1)		MontereyYes

macOS versions compared

  • Apple supported by Apple, no patcher needed
  • OCLP runs with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
  • Legacy runs with OCLP; older “legacy Metal” GPU, more patches
  • No Metal runs with OCLP; GPU without Metal, apps that need Metal fail
  • No not possible
ModelCatalina10.15Big Sur11Monterey12Ventura13Sonoma14Sequoia15Tahoe26Golden Gate27
MacBookPro11,1AppleAppleOCLPLegacyLegacyLegacyLegacyNo
MacBookPro11,2AppleAppleOCLPLegacyLegacyLegacyLegacyNo
MacBookPro11,3AppleAppleLegacyLegacyLegacyLegacyLegacyNo
MacBookPro11,5AppleAppleAppleLegacyLegacyLegacyLegacyNo

Model by model

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) · MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)MacBookPro11,1

This model was sold in more than one year. Its full section, with the macOS table, hardware comparison and owner reports, is on the MacBook Pro 2013 page.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) · MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)MacBookPro11,2

This model was sold in more than one year. Its full section, with the macOS table, hardware comparison and owner reports, is on the MacBook Pro 2013 page.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) · MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)MacBookPro11,3

This model was sold in more than one year. Its full section, with the macOS table, hardware comparison and owner reports, is on the MacBook Pro 2013 page.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) · MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)MacBookPro11,5

Model identifier
MacBookPro11,5
Board ID
Mac-06F11F11946D27C5
CPU generation
4th-gen Core i (Haswell)
Graphics
Intel Iris / HD (Haswell)
AMD Radeon / FirePro (GCN 1)
Wi-Fi
Broadcom BCM4350/4360-class (AirportBrcmNIC)
Last macOS from Apple
macOS Monterey
T1 / T2 chip
None
Battery rating
1,000 cycles to 80% capacity, Apple

Our pick

macOS SequoiaNewest possible: macOS Tahoe

Graphics: Intel Iris / HD (Haswell) + AMD Radeon / FirePro (GCN 1), patched as Legacy Metal (3802). Sequoia is the newest macOS the stable OCLP 2.5.1 supports. How we pick

MacBookPro11,5: macOS Big Sur to Tahoe, and what OCLP patches on each
macOSStatusRoot patches OCLP applies
macOS Big Sur11.7.11AppleSupported by Apple: install from Software Update.
macOS Monterey12.7.6AppleSupported by Apple: install from Software Update.
macOS Ventura13.7.8LegacyIntel Haswell · AMD Legacy GCN
macOS Sonoma14.8.9LegacyIntel Haswell · AMD Legacy GCN · Modern Wireless · PCIe FaceTime Camera
macOS Sequoia15.8.2LegacyIntel Haswell · AMD Legacy GCN · Modern Wireless · PCIe FaceTime Camera
macOS Tahoe26.7.2LegacyIntel Haswell · AMD Legacy GCN · Modern Wireless · Modern Audio · PCIe FaceTime Camera
macOS Golden Gate27NoNo Intel Mac can run macOS 27, with or without OCLP.

Compared with the MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) MacBookPro11,3

WhatMacBookPro11,3MacBookPro11,5
GraphicsIntel Iris / HD (Haswell) + NVIDIA GeForce GT 6xx/7xx (Kepler)Intel Iris / HD (Haswell) + AMD Radeon / FirePro (GCN 1)
Last macOS from ApplemacOS Big SurmacOS Monterey
  • Root patches on Tahoe. New compared with the MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013): AMD Legacy GCN. No longer needed: Nvidia Kepler.
  • Kexts OpenCore loads. Dropped: KDKlessWorkaround.kext, AppleUSBTopCase.kext and AppleUSBMultitouch.kext. (15 kexts on the MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), 12 here, from our builds.)

How much patching MacBookPro11,5 needs on each macOS

macOSPatch setsFiles installedFiles removedKDKMetallibSupportPkg
VenturaIntel Haswell · AMD Legacy GCN222YesNo
SonomaIntel Haswell · AMD Legacy GCN · Modern Wireless · PCIe FaceTime Camera272YesNo
SequoiaIntel Haswell · AMD Legacy GCN · Modern Wireless · PCIe FaceTime Camera1663YesYes
TahoeIntel Haswell · AMD Legacy GCN · Modern Wireless · Modern Audio · PCIe FaceTime Camera332YesNo

OCLP installs 22 files for this Mac on Ventura and 33 on Tahoe. A Kernel Debug Kit is needed from Ventura. MetallibSupportPkg is needed from Sequoia.

From OCLP's own documentation

Universal Control. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth hardware: Wi-Fi 5 + BT 4.2. Not out of the box. Hardware supports UC. Spoofing required. Dortania, Universal Control guide

OCLP changelog entries that name this Mac, newest release first, word for word:

  • 0.2.5 Allow disabling of faulty Thunderbolt controllers on 2013-2014 MacBook Pros → Currently limited to MacBookPro11,x

On Tahoe this Mac needs Intel Haswell, AMD Legacy GCN, Modern Wireless, Modern Audio and PCIe FaceTime Camera. What each of those restores, and what to keep ready when root patching: macOS Tahoe: what works and what does not.

Known issues

  • Legacy Metal (macOS 13+) (source) Dortania, Supported Models
What OCLP puts on the EFI partition for MacBookPro11,5 OpenCore 1.0.6 RELEASE · 12 kexts

From our build with the OCLP 3.0.0-rc.5 app's command line (--build --model MacBookPro11,5) on a GitHub macOS runner, 2026-11-05. Boot arguments: keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 -lilubetaall amfi=0x80.

Kexts Reasons are shown for kexts that set this Mac apart; the rest are explained in the kext glossary.

  • Lilu.kext 1.7.2
  • ECM-Override.kext 1.0.0
  • CatalinaIntelI210Ethernet.kext 1.0.0
  • AirportBrcmFixup.kext 2.2.1
  • IOSkywalkFamily.kext 1.2.0
  • IO80211FamilyLegacy.kext 1.0.0
  • AirPortBrcmNIC-Tahoe.kext 1.0.0
  • IOS3XeFamily.kext 1.0.0 Restores S1X/S3X NVMe support removed in macOS 14.0 beta 2 (Apple SSDs such as AP0128H and AP0256H); also covers Macs with the 12+16 pin SSD layout and newer drives.
  • CSLVFixup.kext 2.6.1
  • AMFIPass.kext 1.4.1
  • RestrictEvents.kext 1.1.7
  • AppleCameraInterface.kext 1.0.0

Settings specific to this Mac

  • Enabling VMX Bit for non-macOS OSes 11 of 86 builds
  • Enabling Boot Logo patch 21 of 86 builds
  • Disabling mediaanalysisd 24 of 86 builds
  • Setting RestrictEvents block arguments: media 22 of 86 builds
  • Setting RestrictEvents patch arguments: sbvmm 43 of 86 builds

6 more settings are applied to most of the 86 Macs we built; they are listed in the full build log.

Full build log · config.plist · file list

Our build for MacBookPro11,5 loads 12 kexts in an EFI folder of 34.2 MB. Across the 86 Macs we built, the median is 18; 8% of builds load fewer.

No issue in OCLP's tracker was filed with MacBookPro11,5 as the machine model (searched 2026-11-05), so there is no owner feedback to summarise for this exact model.

Installing on the MacBook Pro 2014

Choose MacBookPro11,1 or MacBookPro11,2 or MacBookPro11,3 or MacBookPro11,5 as the target model when OCLP builds OpenCore (it detects it automatically when you run OCLP on this Mac). Before that, install the newest macOS Apple offers for it, macOS Big Sur to macOS Monterey (depending on the model), so the firmware is current. The steps themselves are the same for every Mac: How to install OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

Common questions

What does OCLP patch on a MacBook Pro 2014 running Tahoe?

The root patches for its hardware: Intel Haswell, Modern Wireless, Modern Audio, PCIe FaceTime Camera, Nvidia Kepler and AMD Legacy GCN. Which one applies depends on the model identifier; the table above lists each. Updates to macOS remove them, and Post-Install Root Patch puts them back.

What is the latest macOS for a MacBook Pro 2014?

Officially, macOS Big Sur to macOS Monterey (depending on the model). With OCLP: macOS Tahoe 26.7.2. macOS 27 does not support any Intel Mac.

Other Macs from 2014

Keep going

How to installThe complete step-by-step guide for OCLP 3.0macOS TahoemacOS 26 on unsupported Macs with OCLP 3.0Mac compatibilityEvery Intel Mac and the macOS it can run, with and without OCLP

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