System requirements

Supported operating systems:

• macOS Big Sur 11
• macOS Catalina 10.15
• macOS Mojave 10.14
• macOS High Sierra 10.13
• macOS Sierra 10.12
• OS X El Capitan 10.11

Mac machines with Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.

Supported file systems:

• APFS
• HFS+ (including Core Storage)
• FAT32
• NTFS (including Boot Camp)

  You cannot back up data to a disk with an NTFS file system. However, you can recover data from a backup located on this type of file system.

Requirements for Acronis bootable media:

• To create a bootable media, you can use any removable drive with 4 GB (or more) of free space and that is formatted with the Mac OS Extended file system.
• The version of macOS Recovery must match the version of macOS installed on your Mac.
• CD and DVD media are not supported.

Supported storage media:

• Internal drives (HDD, SSD, RAID)
• USB drives
• FireWire drives
• Thunderbolt drives
• Network share, NAS
• Acronis Cloud

Supported processors:

• Apple silicon
• Intel (x86)

General requirements:

• You need to have administrator privileges to run Acronis True Image 2021.
• If your Mac includes the Apple T2 chip, select "Medium Security" and "Allow booting from external media" in the Secure boot settings. For more information, refer to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208330.

Dark Mode support

Dark Mode is available in macOS Mojave or later. Acronis True Image 2021 switches to the dark appearance when Dark Mode is turned on in macOS.