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November 26, 2022
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No visible option to install Apple Silicon versions of After Effects

  • November 26, 2022
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I had the Apple Silicon version of After Effects 2022 downloaded on my MacBook already. Then I cancelled my After Effects subscription in favour of my post-secondary discount on the Creative Cloud to get every Adobe app for the same price. In doing so, my After Effects install showed up with a question mark on the actual app icon and wouldn't open, so I opened the creative cloud app and uninstalled it, trying to install the newest version of After Effects. But, now every time I try to look at After Effects in the Creative Cloud app, it says "Open (Intel)" meaning it downloaded the Intel verison of After Effects. I do not want the Intel version, I didn't used to have the Intel version, and I can't find any option to download the Apple Silicon version because the version dowloader doesn't indicate which processor it's built for, and every version I've tried downloading has come back with the same button "Open (Intel)." I cannot find the option to download the Apple Silicon version. Even going on Adobe's website, seeing that "22.3" was supported on Apple Silicon natively, it still says it's the Intel version when I download it.

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November 26, 2022

All versions of After Effects available in the Creative Cloud app are Universal. Apple M1 is supported. 

 

If you see something other than that, hold down the Option key, right-click on the AE app, and select Show Info. See if Open using Rosetta is checked. If not, AE is running in Universal mode, and the M1 and M2 chips are supported.