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twinlight

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Sorry if this is my fault but I cannot figure this out. I am new to macOS due to being a happy Neo buyer. After some weeks with this I am blown away how amazing this hardware is and I am starting to understand some of macOS and its differences from Windows which I grew up with.

I have three Apple apps that cant update. These where included with macOS and just gives me and error when I try and update them in the App Store.

At first I thought this would be solved with some macOS update but it is still the same. I tried rebooting, I tried force quitting App Store and relaunching. I have only one AppleID and everything else seem to work with my phone, watch, ipad and so on but these three apps cannot be updated.
 

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look on the app store, there are newer versions of those apps that replace these ones. the new ones are at version 15.2. enjoy your neo!
 
So these apps have updates that can’t be applied because I have to download the same apps from the store? So I will always have the three old apps asking me to update?
 
So these apps have updates that can’t be applied because I have to download the same apps from the store? So I will always have the three old apps asking me to update?
you can install the newer versions, then (if you want... i did) delete the older ones. app updates on the app store generally work as you'd expect; they update over existing versions. but pages, numbers, etc have new versions; hence, a separate install.
 
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