It’s not clear why the T2 security chip is required: Netflix didn’t have an immediate answer for us, and Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment.īut if we had to guess, that T2 chip might be able to better handle 4K content because it acts as a co-processor. There’s an easy way to check whether your Mac has a T2 chip, as Apple points out on its website.ĭisappointingly, older iMacs and pre-2018 Mac laptops that could theoretically play Netflix 4K content, whether on their built-in displays or via an 4K or 5K external monitor, won’t be able to.
That means the full list of Macs that can watch 4K content on Netflix, at least for now, is as follows: MacOS Big Sur, Apple’s upcoming release of its Mac operating system, will finally let you watch 4K HDR Netflix content, but it turns out it’ll only work on 2018 or later Macs with Apple’s T2 security chip, according to a new Netflix support document ( via Apple Terminal).
