Facetime problem in Mavericks

[MacBiter]

Contact Apple. Go to Apple.com, click on "Support" and at the bottom of the page are the ways to open a ticket with Apple. If you are not being allowed to sign in, that is up to Apple to solve for you.

I could try that but I suspect they will just tell me that Mavericks is no longer supported for FT.

 

[pm-r]

I could try that but I suspect they will just tell me that Mavericks is no longer supported for FT.

A quick Google search seems to support that they would be correct as most hits indicate because of software and Hardware FaceTime is no longer supported in Macos Mavericks.
Whether it actually works or not seems to be a hit or miss situation possibly depending on all kinds of various things and settings.

It would be interesting to know how and why it is still working for some and what the different settings might be to enable it to do so. Anyway, not exactly a reliable application to use under such conditions.



- Patrick
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[Rod]

MacBiter, I have an old 2010 white unibody MacBook running High Sierra and it was my impression that most early Macs could be updated to Sierra/High Sierra. I was, with some minor difficulty (Multiple tries) able to sign into iCloud on that device and according to what I read; "The latest macOS version that a 2011 iMac can officially run is macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)." So why not upgrade your iMac to an OS thats able to sign in to iCloud and FT?

I mean with respect Mavericks came out in 2013, I'm sure I don't have to tell you that's 12 years ago. All credit to you for keeping the device running so long but I doubt if the guys in Apple Support will even remember that OS, they were probably still in school back then. High Sierra 10.13.6 came out in 2017 so assuming your hardware is OK it should run FT okay my 2010 MacBook does but its not an iMac so...

 

[MacBiter]

MacBiter, I have an old 2010 white unibody MacBook running High Sierra and it was my impression that most early Macs could be updated to Sierra/High Sierra. I was, with some minor difficulty (Multiple tries) able to sign into iCloud on that device and according to what I read; "The latest macOS version that a 2011 iMac can officially run is macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)." So why not upgrade your iMac to an OS thats able to sign in to iCloud and FT?

I mean with respect Mavericks came out in 2013, I'm sure I don't have to tell you that's 12 years ago. All credit to you for keeping the device running so long but I doubt if the guys in Apple Support will even remember that OS, they were probably still in school back then. High Sierra 10.13.6 came out in 2017 so assuming your hardware is OK it should run FT okay my 2010 MacBook does but its not an iMac so...

I do understand your point and it's perfectly reasonable. The reason I continue to use Mavericks is at least 3-fold, and concerns applications.

1. I run iTunes 10 which - while still bloatware compared to earlier versions - has features which disappeared from 11 onwards, namely the ability to open multiple playlist windows, Doug scripts which I already have, the visualiser, and the consistent sidebar. (I have used the Music app on iPad and have never really got on with it)
2. 'Hear' is an app which gives you very fine control over your Mac's default audio settings - I can't go over every little detail here, but I can tell you that if I turn Hear off while something is playing in iTunes, the music immediately sounds very muddy and even mono-ish by comparison.
3. Journler is easily the best journalling app ever created; it only ever had one developer - Phil Dow - and he gave up supporting it round about Snow Leopard. It still mostly works in Mavericks but no longer does in High Sierra.

I have seriously thought about upgrading to High Sierra - most of my apps still work there, and of those that don't, I can get higher versions. If I did that, I would run Mavericks as a VM to run iTunes with Hear, and Journler; the main problem being that the version of Parallels that runs in High Sierra is a subscription version only, though I'd reluctantly bite that bullet if I really had to. Ironically VMWare is now free for personal users, but not the older version that runs in High Sierra.

 

[Rod]

Believe me when I say I get it but, I fear FT is only the first of the inevitable functional losses that will occur as the device ages. Like an old car, first it's the leaking radiator hose, then the water pump, then the radiator starts leaking and so on.

 

[MacBiter]

Believe me when I say I get it but, I fear FT is only the first of the inevitable functional losses that will occur as the device ages. Like an old car, first it's the leaking radiator hose, then the water pump, then the radiator starts leaking and so on.

Except... it's not a device problem, it's an OS problem! I could - if I wanted - use OCLP to install Sequoia on my 14-year-old iMac and though it wouldn't run at super speeds, it would be acceptable. Imagine in 2011 being able to install and run Lion on a 1997 Mac !!!

Mind you, I'm lucky the Mac has lasted this long .

 

[ferrarr]

Ironically VMWare is now free for personal users, but not the older version that runs in High Sierra.

What version supports High Sierra?

Have you checked all the "Older Versions" websites, like this?

Old versions of Windows, Mac and Linux Software Downloads & Abandonware Games - OldVersion.com

 

[MacBiter]

What version supports High Sierra?

Have you checked all the "Older Versions" websites, like this?

Old versions of Windows, Mac and Linux Software Downloads & Abandonware Games - OldVersion.com

I'm not sure, but their website shows the last-but-one version goes back to Catalina and anything older is either not free or possibly not even available. If the worst came to the worst I'd pay Parallels £99 a year, or get used to the free but less than easy or functional VirtualBox.