27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates

Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by easyThrowaway on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:18AM (#47071724)

> The updates are over https. The default certificates are 10year expiry.

I wish I knew this last week while trying to restore a 2010 21" iMac.

Apart from this, I encountered another annoyance mid-way; the official download urls for Sierra and High Sierra were nowhere to be found. I somewhat remember being able to download the official dmg/disk image from some official repository, probably some App store public url?

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Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by fouc on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:18AM (#47072212)

can look for macos downloader scripts in github. I noticed the readme here shares some URLs though I'm not sure if they still work https://github.com/Comp-Labs/Download-macOS

https://github.com/chris1111/Download_Install_macOS could also be another option.

I know I used one of the macos downloaders from github before, I just forget which one though.

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Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by easyThrowaway on Thursday February 19, 2026 @12:58PM (#47076795)

Thanks!

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