Keep in mind that none of these users are paid, and they aren’t officially with Apple, so you should not demand fixes. The next two stops should be Apple Discussion Forums and the MacRumors forums where you’ll find dedicated users who offer free help. We round up the most common OS X El Capitan problems and how to fix them into a handy guide that should solve most of your issues without the need to talk to an Apple Genius. You may end up needing professional help, but we can point you in the direction to look for free help with your issues.

If you boot up your Mac after installing OS X El Capitan or a smaller update and you have problems, you can take some steps to fix these issues on your own. The great news is that reports of OS X El Capitan performance on older Macs is solid, and OS X El Capitan battery life is not a complaint we are seeing often. Apple included fixes for WiFi connectivity in recent OS X updates, which helped address some issues. If there were major issues we would see users on social media sharing complaints very fast, which is something we saw with OS X WiFi issues in previous years. We have not seen any widespread complaints about show-stopping issues with WiFi, battery life or Bluetooth. While there are certainly some OS X El Capitan problems, they appear to be isolated so far. We saw some audio apps and hardware not work well with OS X El Capitan, but in November updates solved some of these issues. We’ve seen an issue where the MacBook Pro Retina would freeze while on OS X El Capitan, but the recent OS X 10.11.5 update fixed this. If you still have these issues, upgrade to the latest version of OS X El Capitan and the latest version of Office. Originally Office 2016 for Mac did not work with OS X El Capitan, but updates from Apple and from Microsoft solved most of these problems. We’ve not seen speed issues with the smaller OS X 10.11.x updates. If you are upgrading from OS X Yosemite to OS X El Capitan in 2016 the only speed limitation will be that of your computer.

We saw a number of long download OS X El Capitan problems when the new version of OS X arrived, but that is no longer an issue. OS X El Capitan Updates Fixed Many Problems

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