--- title: "MacOS Big Sur Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of MacOS Big Sur. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if MacOS Big Sur is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/operating-systems/macos-big-sur-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [AB Testing Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ab-testing/) / [MacOS Big Sur](https://www.softwareadvice.com/operating-systems/macos-big-sur-profile/) / MacOS Big Sur Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/operating-systems/macos-big-sur-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/operating-systems/macos-big-sur-profile/alternatives/) # MacOS Big Sur User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.8/5 - Total reviews: 59 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.7/5 - Customer support: 4.5/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.7/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 48 reviews (81%) - 4 stars: 9 reviews (15%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Some things are well designed for example the about this mac feature, the dock and the app store app. - I like that this is for ARM64 based processors, which, I think, are superior to Intel based processors. - macOS is always protected against viruses and you don't usually need another antivirus to protect it unlike Windows. ### Most mentioned cons - Compatibility with 1-year old applications was shakey, and I had issues with FTP software and other brands. - One issue I've noticed is that apps on Big Sur seem to become unresponsive slightly more frequently than on previous versions of macOS. - I think the biggest changed was just it was a new year and needed to put out a new version. Though that tends to make things more difficult for the users / Admins. ## MacOS Big Sur customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 59 (page 1). ### MacOS is my favorite OS - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bruna R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love all about the interface, is perfectly easy to use at work, and have a lot of capabilities to improve the routine for those designers like me #### Cons I don't like the bugs that happen in Adobe software, I don't know if is a adobe problem or system problem, but is very hard to deal with --- ### I use macOS Big Sur and really love its capacities no matter the environment that I use it. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It is very good, I feel comfortable using this, I do not want to change to another os. Or only expecting a new from Mac #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Visually I love this OS, it is pretty easy to use, usually you are in a friendly OS, without complications or issues, compared to different OS that I have been used, I like the way that the trackpad help to go between a task to another easily, this helps a lot in an work environment usually too stressant, MacOs makes it easy. #### Cons Mac, and MacOS are usuall the most expensive in the market, butreally worth it. #### Reasons for choosing MacOS Big Sur I wanted to try a new computing environment. #### Reasons for switching to MacOS Big Sur I had heard good references regarded to this OS, and I can confirm that are true. --- ### Big Sur in the house - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Drick W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I liked I used it and it run great for me one of apples best system #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I used it it was one of apples best update and very will and very smooth not to buggy didn't have a lot of issues #### Cons Most apples ios update are over within a year and sometimes your computer will update you out of the older ios --- ### OS Big Sur Review - Frequent User - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: zach z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, I would provide recommendations to friends/family to use this. I really feel it makes my required tasks easier to complete. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love this software. It's easy to use and is very quick. Very responsive. #### Cons I don't like how it crashes every once in a blue moon. I'm still going to continue to use because that doesn't outweigh the positives it has. --- ### Gets the job done well... but nothing new - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Broadcast Media - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I think the best part of Big Sur over Yosemite is the lack of change under hood as well as on the desktop user experience. Yosemite was fine. Big Sur is fine. I think the biggest changed was just it was a new year and needed to put out a new version. Though that tends to make things more difficult for the users / Admins. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Apple seems to have gotten to the point where they don't need to have a huge major change to their software each release the way they do with their hardware. #### Cons Big Sur, to me, Doesn't seem THAT much different from Yosemite, nor THAT much different from Monterey. The one big difference is that something always seems to change on the INSIDE and we trying up upgrade from one version to the next, I always cross my fingers since it seems that the upgrade will fail more often than it should and that comes with the array of problems you would expect. It seems like making the change from Yosemite was a change for the sake of making it look like Apple is doing something... making progress in something that doesn't need it. #### Reasons for choosing MacOS Big Sur It's what Apple Computer run best on... trying to do otherwise is a waste of time. --- ### MacOS Big Sur review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nilesh S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall experience has been very positive. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like that this is for ARM64 based processors, which, I think, are superior to Intel based processors. Also the support for iOS and iPadOS applications. #### Cons Desktop design is new. I'm not a big fan of design changes just for the sake of change. --- ### Better than most software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Julienne H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My experience with Mac has been really good. I've always had Microsoft/window computers and so this is my first Mac and I'm pretty positive that I won't be going back to the other. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's pretty easy to use and works really well. There was no glitches. #### Cons Can't really complain about this software. Even after updating, it still seemed exactly like the previous update. I do wish that you could change the lock in screen like you do with the iphones. Have a different lock screen background than the bland picture Mac offers. --- ### Stability with my software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The Big Sur update comes for free with my Apple Products. I love the ease of use of MacOS and the Big Sur has been the most stable version to date. #### Cons It's not possible use some of the 32-bit apps I used to have installed. I need to get new updates or buy replacements apps. --- ### User friendly - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sareena P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience has been great so far, it is easy to use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is super easy to use for someone who isn't super big into tech. I like that I was able to get instructions on it or it walked me thru things I needed done. #### Cons I havnt found anything I hated about it yet. I have found it to be very easy to use and user freindly. --- ### Mac OS Big Sur creative like the commercial stated in the 80’s - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jacob T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, I’d have to say I was actually very impressed with this update and the different features as well as the performance enhancement to the processor, graphics, , battery, life in the mac’s #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I enjoyed the upgrades and different things that come as well as performance, enhancement, and stuff like that that works with the new hardware as well as enhancing the old hardware #### Cons There were a couple different things that weren’t supported by older Macs that I was kind of disappointed in but when you upgrade software, are you obviously have to leave out some older hardware --- ### Mac Costoso ma indispensabile a lavoro - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Lo uso a lavoro nel Mac aziendale. Non posso farne a meno. Meglio del precedente Windows #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Velocità e sicurezza. Mai avuto problemi di rallentamenti. Un esempio è che difficilmente è necessario fare riavvii forzati #### Cons Può essere poco compatibile con alcuni software di nicchia aziendali che magari prediligono le piattaforme Windows #### Reasons for switching to MacOS Big Sur Più veloce ed efficiente per il lavoro da svolgere --- ### Si può fare di meglio - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Davide S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Big Sur si è mostrato spesso impegnativo per il mio MacBook Air .Molto meglio l’aggiornamento successivo #### Cons Lentezza di calcolo e nel refresh page --- ### Big Sur provides attractive user interface and important widget. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have been using from almost 1 year and found most important feature as, 1. Security audit in Safari, 2. Improved Map App. 3. Notification center 4. provides important Widget #### Cons It doesn't support 32 bit legacy application. --- ### MacOS Big Sur reseña - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stefanny M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Market Research - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. El rendimiento de la empresa mejora gracias a este software debido a que nos brinda la posibilidad de trabajar de manera rápida y organizada gracias a lo dinámico y fácil que es usarlo, la motivación recibida gracias a las comodidades brindadas por el equipo es la mejor. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Las funciones que brinda MacOS Big Sur brindan una estabilidad y un mejor rendimiento en la Mac, además cada actualización permite un sistema más rápido, aparte su diseño compacto es el mejor, por otro lado la seguridad que le ofrece a la empresa es el mejor permitiendo tener la información de la empresa protegida. #### Cons Al principio era difícil identificar donde se encontrabas los ajustes de la barra de menú, pero con el tiempo la adaptación es mejor y más fácil. --- ### A long pending UI refresh to MAC OS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Arslan u. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. overall i am very satisfied with this update to Mac OS. its incredibly better feeling yet not confusing existing users. in a way they have changed a lot of stuff still keeping the overall User experience similar and confusing their existing users. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Mac os big sur has been a long pending update to Mac os in terms of UI and modern feel. Modern UI trend stuff has been added including rounded edges, colors and translucency. Multiple updates to photos, maps and many other system apps including look around, better photo editing capabilities. Music got a new listen now section. it is also helping better understand privacy settings. one major one is cryptographically secure signed system volume to prevent system tempering. #### Cons the thing that most of people i know they didn't like its touch oriented interface especially when device is not a touch device or you are not using primarily as a touch device. --- ### Great OS for Software Developers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Zach C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have been using Mac OS X for more than 10 years and would not trade it for any other operating system. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love that Mac OS X is built on unix so that I can run almost any code that is designed for Linux natively on my computer and use the terminal as if I was running a Linux machine, except that the user interface and supported apps are much more comprehensive. #### Cons Sometimes the development tools can be a pain to set up and will occasionally get messed up with a major update. --- ### Cool new features - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tayler B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great OS software! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Apple is always developing cool new features in the software that help with user fluidity. #### Cons Even I don't know all the things I can do with this software! --- ### Keine großen Veränderungen - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jasmin S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Veterinary - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Top! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Wie man es von Apple gewohnt ist, läuft Big Sur ohne große Probleme. #### Cons Ich brauche meinen Mac nicht für wirklich komplizierte Dinge, daher habe ich persönlich keine großen Neuerungen entdeckt. #### Reasons for switching to MacOS Big Sur Update --- ### Clean and Beautiful - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros MacOS Big Sur made transitioning to the Apple Interface easy and aesthetically pleasing #### Cons Nothing I can think of, I look forward to progressive software updates in the future --- ### Big sur has great features but could be more crisp - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Paul H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love the ability to see my tasks and the daily news by just a quick swipe. #### Cons This software could be geared more to technical coders and accommodate excel shortcuts better than it does. --- ### Lovable and simple - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Glen N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I like managing and using macOS. It isn't my daily driver currently (Windows Admin is my daily) but it's simple and works well for my content creating users and I very rarely even need to do any troubleshooting to help with staff questions on using macOS because it is so easy to use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I love that macOS centralizes all installed Apps to the Finder->Applications tab for easy finding or removing. File management is easy and the UI is simple to learn the CLI is similar to Linux so savvy Admins and write shell scripts with a little practice. #### Cons Updates constantly nag away in the top right and most users in my experience don't want to apply them or Admins are scared of incompatibilities so they defer to not doing them so they just hand out there. You can improve this if you deploy an MDM like Jamf or Intune to automate rules for updates if it won't make too many waves for your Org. #### Reasons for choosing MacOS Big Sur Different OS for user preference and job roles - People who create content in things like ProCreate and Adobe Creative Suite tend to prefer Apple products. Windows is a great solution for more Business forward job roles. Both are great at what they do. --- ### Big Sur Big Looks - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Ryan B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The OS was easy to navigate and it is a very refined look. The processing power is very good. #### Cons The OS is not as intuitive as other systems and some people find it to be confusing especially when navigating files and other storage. --- ### A more powerful and customizable mac os version bringing mobile interface to the desktop - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tim k. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Mac os big sur offers quite a lot of changes for old users of mac such as installing IOS apps natively if on the newest hardware, safari has also been supercharged to make one reconsider using other better relied on apps. Overall, if you are on the newest non intel based mac , big sur is a no brainer, if you were on the previous version ie catalina then all the newer features introduced then are further enhanced in big sur. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Mac os big sur has brought a lot of customizability to mac os, allowing deep changes to safari and the interface. Most apps are also quite fast with notable speed in safari over other browsers like chrome. If you also enjoy certain apps on IOs big sur is your best chance to run them on desktop. #### Cons If you are running hardware pre 2013 unfortunately it isnt compatible with big sur. Also the upgrade process has to be done very carefully as the compatibilty with externally installed apps has to be verified individually. Some apps could not activate their licenses after upgrade #### Reasons for choosing MacOS Big Sur Big sur is a completely new approach by apple for mac os and seems like they are dedicated to ensure it really works by intergrating it tighrly with all the other items in their ecosystem such as ios and ipados, meaning better overall experience #### Reasons for switching to MacOS Big Sur Acquired a non intel based mac which is supported by big sur --- ### Maybe the best option for developers - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, I use it as my daily OS and can't wait to get some system improvements. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I went for macOS Big Sur mostly because of its reputation as the best operating system for developers. After a while, I would agree, as it provides a wide support for most of the required tools for every developer. #### Cons The learning curve (when switching from e.g. Windows) is quite steep, I know some people, that have problems with that - not particularly my case. Some standard features from other OS (Windows, Linux distributions) are missing and I would welcome them. I would say that if it had them, the transition would be smoother. #### Reasons for choosing MacOS Big Sur Community recommendation and support for developers. #### Reasons for switching to MacOS Big Sur Professional needs. --- ### MacOS Big Slur is a must to try - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Muhammad K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Apple security, Aesthetics, seem-less interface, amazing memory management and resource allocation. #### Cons Installation is a bit problem. Many users have seen installation failed messages including me. Installation guide needs to be improved. #### Reasons for switching to MacOS Big Sur I heard a lot about MacOs by people so I wanted to give it a try and am happy that I made a good decision. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/operating-systems/macos-big-sur-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- MacOS Big Sur Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice