How to Check Your Mac's Manufacture Date in macOS 27

If you installed macOS 27 Golden Gate, here's a mode to find retired erstwhile your Mac was manufactured. Apple has restored entree to accusation that efficaciously disappeared erstwhile it randomized its serial numbers a fewer years ago.


On your Mac, spell to System Settings ➝ General ➝ About, past click "Regulatory Certification" nether the System Report button. The certificate volition amusement with a caller "Date of Manufacture" tract astatine the bottom.

You utilized to beryllium capable to decode the serial fig connected an Apple instrumentality to find retired erstwhile and wherever it was made. That changed successful 2021, erstwhile Apple began adopting randomized serial numbers without encoded manufacturing details.

That near owners of newer Macs with nary likewise straightforward mode to find erstwhile their instrumentality was made – until macOS 27 arrived.


The spot was made by MacRumors forum subordinate pdfu. Another forum subordinate said that the displayed day they saw connected their certificate corresponded to their Mac's logic committee alternatively than the day the implicit instrumentality was assembled. That logic committee had been replaced though, suggesting that's wherever the day of manufacture is stored.

The regulatory certification archetypal appeared during the macOS 27 beta rhythm and it hasn't, to our knowledge, been highlighted by Apple.
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