A redesigned Mac interface
Yosemite refreshed windows, toolbars, icons and typography with a cleaner, flatter visual language while preserving the familiar Mac desktop model.
Major OS release · macOS
OS X Yosemite
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Continuity and Handoff
Continuity connected Mac, iPhone and iPad workflows, with Handoff allowing supported activities to move between nearby Apple devices.
Phone integration
A Mac could make and receive iPhone cellular calls and work more closely with messages arriving through the user’s iPhone.
Spotlight and Today view
Spotlight gained a larger search experience with richer information sources, while Notification Center added a customizable Today view.
Updated built-in apps
Safari, Mail, Messages and iTunes received major interface and capability updates aligned with the new Yosemite design.
Mac OS X / OS X / macOS
Device support
Archive-product links show the canonical products represented by this project. The full device-name list preserves the broader structured support evidence, including hardware refreshes that do not have their own archive node.
Supported archive products8 mapped products
Full device coverage44 device names
- Mac Pro (Early 2008)
- Mac Pro (Early 2009)
- Mac Pro (Late 2013)
- Mac mini (Late 2012, Core i5)
- Mac mini (Late 2012, Core i7)
- Mac mini (Late 2014)
- Mac mini (Mid 2010)
- Mac mini (Mid 2011, Dedicated graphics)
- Mac mini (Mid 2011, Integrated graphics)
- Mac mini (Mid 2011, Server)
- MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)
- MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)
- MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)
- MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2011)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009, Dedicated Graphics)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009, Integrated Graphics)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
- MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015, Dedicated graphics)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015, Integrated graphics)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
- iMac (21.5-inch, Early 2013)
- iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
- iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013, Dedicated Graphics)
- iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013, Integrated Graphics)
- iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)
- iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2009, Core i5/i7)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
- iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)
- iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)
Support dropped at this major
No mapped archive product was fully dropped when this major version arrived.
Public releases
Public release history
Every canonical public release assigned to this major version, including the initial release and later point updates.
2014
- 10.10Initial major release
- 10.10.1Point update
2015
- 10.10.2Point update
- 10.10.3Point update
- 10.10.4Point update
- 10.10.5Point update