iBooks and Maps come to the Mac
Mavericks brought iBooks and Apple Maps to the Mac, extending services that had already become central on iPhone and iPad.
Major OS release · macOS
OS X Mavericks
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Safari redesign and performance
Safari gained a redesigned Top Sites experience, a new Sidebar for shared links and reading lists, and substantial JavaScript and energy-efficiency improvements.
Better multiple-display support
Menus and Docks became available across displays, windows could span multiple displays more naturally, and an HDTV could act as a full-power display through AirPlay.
Finder Tabs and Tags
Finder Tabs reduced window clutter while Tags made files easier to organize and find across local storage and iCloud.
Efficiency technologies
Timer Coalescing, App Nap and Compressed Memory were introduced to reduce energy use and improve responsiveness under memory pressure.
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 products7 mapped products
Full device coverage38 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 (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 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)
- 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.
2013
- 10.9Initial major release
- 10.9.1Point update
2014
- 10.9.2Point update
- 10.9.3Point update
- 10.9.4Point update
- 10.9.5Point update