On Monday, Apple released the macOS Monterey 12.1 update, which introduced new features such as SharePlay, Hide My Email and Apple Music Voice, and fixed the battery usage bug. However, some users now report that they cannot see the macOS 12.1 update on the M1 Mac.
Not everyone can see this update. In particular, M1 Mac devices cannot see this update and are not prompted to download the update when viewing the system preferences. Reddit’s r/MacOS section also reported this issue. Users said it seemed to affect some M1 Mac users, but other users did not report much in this regard.
In addition, Microsoft’s senior cloud developer advocate Christina Warren (Christina Warren) reported that when downloading the installer from the Mac App Store, there was a pause in the middle. Other users have also verified this problem, leaving the affected users without a simple solution.
The Reddit poster suggested that particularly impatient users suffering from this problem can boot to Recovery and reinstall macOS. The recovery tool will download the latest version of macOS. It is recommended that if users use the recovery tool method, they should ensure that they have a current backup.