Download MacOS Sonoma 14 Full Installer
If you’re looking to download the full installer for MacOS Sonoma 14, you’ll be pleased to know that you can download the complete installer directly from Apple servers.
The MacOS Sonoma 14 installer arrives from Apple contained within a file named “InstallAssistant.pkg”, that, when run, will extract the full “Install MacOS Sonoma.app” installer application into the users /Application folder.
These direct download links offer an alternative approach to get the MacOS Sonoma installer, which can be used for upgrading other Macs, creating a USB installer drive, performing clean installs, installing into a virtual machine, troubleshooting, and much more.
Download Full MacOS Sonoma Installer Package
The following links are aiming directly to download the Sonoma installer from Apple’s CDN servers:
- macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 InstallAssistant.pkg (Separately: MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1 IPSW)
- macOS Sonoma 14.4 InstallAssistant.pkg (separately: Sonoma 14.4 IPSW)
- macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 InstallAssistant.pkg (Separately: Sonoma 14.3.1 IPSW)
- macOS Sonoma 14.3 InstallAssistant.pkg (Separately: Sonoma 14.3 IPSW)
- macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 Full Installer pkg (Separately: Sonoma 14.2.1 IPSW
- macOS Sonoma 14.2 Full Installer InstallAssistant.pkg (Separately: Sonoma 14.2 IPSW
- macOS 14.1.2 InstallAssistang.pkg (Separately: 14.1.2 IPSW)
- macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 InstallAssistant.pkg (Sonoma 14.1.1 IPSW)
- macOS Sonoma 14.1 InstallAssistant.pkg (Sonoma 14.1 IPSW)
- MacOS Sonoma 14.0 Final – InstallAssistant.pkg (Separately: IPSW for Sonoma Final)
- RC 2 (RC 2 IPSW)
- MacOS Sonoma Release Candidate InstallAssistant.pkg (Separately: UniversalMac_14.0_23A339_Restore.ipsw for Sonoma RC 1)
- MacOS Sonoma developer beta 7 InstallAssistant.pkg (Separately: Sonoma beta 7 IPSW)
- MacOS Sonoma developer beta 6 InstallAssistant.pkg (Separate: MacOS Sonoma Beta 6 IPSW restore image
- MacOS Sonoma developer beta 5 InstallAssistant.pkg (separate: Beta 5 IPSW restore image)
- MacOS Sonoma 14 developer beta 4 (IPSW restore image)
- MacOS Sonoma 14 developer beta 3
- MacOS Sonoma 14 developer beta 2
- MacOS Sonoma 14 developer beta 1
After you have downloaded the “InstallAssistant.pkg” file, launch it and go through the simple steps on screen to extract the complete and full “Install macOS Sonoma.app” installer application into the /Applications folder on the Mac.
Download MacOS Sonoma Installer from the App Store
When MacOS Sonoma is released to the general public as a final version, you will be able to download it directly from the Mac App Store:
What about getting installers for other MacOS versions?
If you’re interested in downloading installers for other MacOS versions, check out our list of MacOS installer downloads for many versions of MacOS here. Each of those downloads also is directly from Apple.