Furthermore, the original poster is correct. A vast majority of professional software akin to sketchup is updated with macOS versions quickly and efficiently, and it’s not unreasonable to bring up this point where SU is obviously lacking big time. I’ll defend SU and all of its quirks and failings, but after so many years it sometimes seems like they don’t quite catch up.
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We who are not on the SketchUp development team can only speculate about what factors drive the update schedule, or why their practice may be different from others. But it is clear that the update timing of Windows and macOS are not among those factors.
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I worked with it in a Mac. It works well, but I prefer SketchUp…
I assume you run it in a virtual environment such as Parallels? According to Autodesk’s own support page, there is no native Mac version.
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Yes with Parallels
Absolutely agree with you…
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Most apps new features do not hinge on OS updates and OS feature adds, they tend to be standalone features of the software itself. Thus you are unlikely to miss out on the new app features by staying with the ‘old’ MacOS.
Apple keeps the security updates current on the older OS for a long while so you are not missing out on any security by keeping with the old OS.
I unfortunately work in a corporate environment where they drive when you can make your updates and upgrades, which unfortunately included forcing me to update to Sonoma. I had significant problems under Sonoma and had to backdate my machine which required a relative act of god and some interaction with Microsoft as our IT department uses an app layered into the flavor of MacOS to regulate this and MSFT was not granular enough in their controls.
Sketchup is taking an unusually long time to upgrade this year (normally early January) so hopefully they have some additional value they are working on for this update of SU.
One can always hope 
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Sketchup 2023 was also released late, I don’t remember the exact date but it wasn’t in January for sure.
Sketchup is not the only drafting user that does not keep up with Apple. After retirement, I could not afford autocad any more so I started using Draftsight. It also used to be free and now there is an annual fee. Using the latest update on their software and my newest OS with apple, the Draftsight software would crash when trying to print a 2D drawing. Had to stop using it because it is essentially worthless. I am a fairly new user of sketchup, but I cannot get my new mac OS using Safari and sketchup free version to make a copy of a component. This is very frustrating.
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The web version wouldn’t be affected by an OS update like installed software would. The web version isn’t installed on your machine, it’s running somewhere else and your browser is the portal.
Whenever, for what ever reason, you’re at the fore front in upgrading, don’t forget to send in those Bug Splats. They surely are going to help and make Sketchup 2024 more stable.
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yeah, and even when 2024 is released, we’re never sure an os update won’t break something :
The new Ventura 14.3 appears to provoke crashes when using the material panel. Apple changed something somewhere and now it’s broken until the devs find what went wrong, or apple pushes a new small update to fix that.
Anyway, new os, old os, always send bugspats. Because if you don’t send the bugsplats, then your bugs dont exist in the first place. and a bug that doesn’t exist can’t be fixed
February 16th
(releases dates are on top of the release notes)
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