
If your Mac is already running macOS Monterey 12.6, then upgrading to Ventura should, with a bit of care and luck, be only like installing a rather large update, at the end of which you have lots of new features to explore. If you’re pushed for time, even minor glitches will throw you and could leave your Mac unusable until you can make enough time to sort it out. Never try to upgrade when you only have a short window to complete it in. Perhaps the overriding need is sufficient time.

Always expect the unexpected, and plan to deal with catastrophe, then you can only be pleased when, a couple of hours later, Ventura is running sweetly. Some of the biggest leaps in the past, to High Sierra with APFS, or Catalina with its boot disk restructuring and loss of 32-bit, have been smooth and trouble-free, while others you’d have expected to be straightforward have been near-disasters.

Upgrading to a new version of macOS is always unpredictable.

This article makes some suggestions to help. If you’ve decided that you want to upgrade to macOS Ventura next month, either when it’s released or soon afterwards, now is the time to start planning and preparing for that.
