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When does the Mac mini (M1, 2020) stop getting updates?

Each figure is from the source marked1 unless it carries its own number.

Quick look

Newest macOS it runs
macOS 27 Golden Gate2newest macOS Apple lists it for
Current macOS
macOS 27 Golden Gatecurrent macOSReleased 14 September 2026
Security updates
Not available3Security updates until
Feature updates
Not available3Feature updates until
Shipped with
macOS Big Sur4shipped with
Released
10 November 20205Available online; Apple gave no in-store day
Releases since launch
Not available6macOS releases since it launched
Releases newer than its newest macOS
Nonenewer than its newest macOSIt runs the current macOS.

Software support

Basis
our inference from history7
Security support for Golden Gate, as endoflife.date lists it
Not available8

Earlier Mac mini models

Security support listed, from release to end.9

Mac mini (Late 2014)

Newest macOS
Monterey
Security support end (endoflife.date)
16 September 2024
From release
9 years 11 months (from online availability)

Apple’s pattern

New macOS
One a year
Patched in recent years
The two releases before the newest10
Older releases
Sometimes patched for longer10

More on this Mac

Sources

  1. endoflife.date — Apple macOS · Default for Mac mini (M1, 2020) · third-party figure · read 2 Oct 2026

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  2. Apple Support (UK) — macOS 27 Golden Gate is compatible with these computers · Apple’s figure · read 22 Sep 2026

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  3. Not published by Apple. Apple has never published a date when a Mac stops getting macOS or security updates, and this site does not invent one. Checked: endoflife.date. Read 22 Sep 2026

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  4. Apple Newsroom (UK) — Introducing the next generation of Mac · Apple’s figure · read 14 Oct 2026

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  5. Apple Newsroom (UK) — Introducing the next generation of Mac · Apple’s figure · read 22 Sep 2026

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  6. Not counted: the Mac mini M1 (2020)’s launch date is known only to the month.

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  7. Apple’s macOS 27 Golden Gate compatibility list names this Mac. endoflife.date says Apple usually provides security updates for the latest three macOS releases, but that this isn’t consistently applied; Apple publishes no end date. Source: endoflife.date. Read 22 Sep 2026

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  8. endoflife.date records no end to security support for Golden Gate. Checked: endoflife.date. Read 2 Oct 2026

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  9. Every earlier release in this line with a recorded end is shown. Each span runs from release to the end of security updates for the newest macOS that Mac ran, as endoflife.date lists it: its cycle end, not necessarily Apple’s last patch. Only Macs with a release day are listed; one known only by an announcement or a month is left out. Where Apple’s date is the day the Mac could be ordered online, the row says so. This is precedent, not a prediction. Apple publishes no date when a Mac stops getting macOS or security updates.

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  10. An inference from Apple’s past releases, not a commitment from Apple, which publishes no date when a Mac stops getting macOS or security updates. A Mac missing from a new macOS compatibility list is not supported by that release; this page changes when that list does.

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