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Impact of disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 connections on Mac users

We have disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 encryption protocols across the University's web services. Doing so prevents these protocols from being used to access Warwick websites via an insecure web browser or application. We made this change to keep the University's sites safe and secure.

You can no longer access parts of the website using the Safari web browser, and older versions of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or older.

We recommend you upgrade to the latest version of macOS.

If this is not possible – for example because your Mac model or OS X version do not meet Apple's system requirements – we recommend that you either:

This table shows how disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 impacts you, and the recommended action to take:

Browser macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
and older
Safari No impact Upgrade to macOS 10.12 (Sierra) Use Chrome or Firefox
Chrome No impact Upgrade to macOS 10.12 (Sierra) Use latest version of Chrome
Firefox No impact Upgrade to macOS 10.12 (Sierra) Use latest version of Firefox
Camino Not supported Not supported Not supported

For the best experience using our applications, we recommend that you use the latest version of one of the following browsers:

Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 11

Edge

Edge

Opera

Opera

Safari

Apple Safari for Mac (Safari on Windows is not supported)