Tip & Tricks to Fix Mac Installation Failed/Stuck/Frozen/Slow Errors

If your Mac is unable to install macOS Big Sur or freezes on installing, you can try to fix it with the following tips. There is no guarantee that each tip works on macOS update problems. But it covers the common measures when Mac users fails to install new macOS, hopefully any of these tips will work for your macOS installation problem.

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1. Shut down your Mac and wait for some time. When a new OS releases, a massive number of people will go to download and install the updates in a snap. As a result, the downloads and installation will be very slow with the large file and many people doing the same thing at the same time, and even fail during the process. What you should do is to wait for the server becoming less busy. According to Apple system status page, macOS Software Update issue has been resolved. Now you should download the macOS Big Sur update file faster and install it without seeing 'An error occurred while installing the selected updates'message.

2. Go to Mac App Store and open updates. If your Mac install stuck on Apple logo, gray/white/black screen when you were installing an App, you can go to Mac App Store to find this app and open the updates to survive from the macOS installation stuck situation.

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Download Catalina 10.15 from the Mac App Store or Download Mojave 10.14 from the Mac App Store; Create the macOS flash drive Installer. MacOS needs to be installed on a 16GB+ flash drive and plugged into a USB 2 port for maximum compatibility. Catalina: How to make a macOS 10.15 Catalina flash drive installer Mojave: How to make a macOS 10.14.

• MacOS Big Sur elevates the most advanced desktop operating system in the world to a new level of power and beauty. Experience Mac to the fullest with a refined new design. Enjoy the biggest Safari update ever. Discover new features for Maps and Messages. And get even more transparency around your privacy.
• Jun 14, 2013. Download the OS X firmware form App Store. take a hdd and format it to Mac OS X extended journal. create a guid table partition. then install the OS X on it. now pressing opt n reboot the device. now select the external hd recovery mode. now you will be able to format your mac Hd in disk utility.

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3. Download & install the combo update. The Mac App Store isn't the only place to download macOS from. When your encounter problems on macOS Big Sur installing, you can try to download the combo macOS update from the Apple official site because the macOS installation package downloaded from Mac App Store may only include the essential files for your Mac update, instead of the combo updater with all the files required to update to macOS.