It succeeded macOS High Sierra and was followed by macOS Catalina. The operating system's name refers to the Mojave Desert and is part of a series of California-themed names that began with OS X Mavericks.
Mojave was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 4, 2018, and was released to the public on September 24, 2018. MacOS Mojave ( / m oʊ ˈ h ɑː v i, m ə-/ mo- HAH-vee version 10.14) is the fifteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers.