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alvin.H
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Jun 2, 2026 12:17 AM UTC
Question

When is the new version of Substance 3D Stager going to be announced?

Adobe Team,

I am requesting a clear and direct response regarding the future of Substance 3D Stager on macOS.

For years, Mac users have been asking about native Apple Silicon support for Stager, yet there has been little to no meaningful communication from Adobe. At the same time, Apple has officially announced the end of major support for Intel-based Macs, and the industry is rapidly moving away from Intel compatibility.

This raises a serious concern:

What exactly is Adobe's plan for Substance 3D Stager?

Currently, Stager remains an Intel-only application. As Apple continues to phase out Intel technologies and eventually eliminates compatibility layers, there is a very real possibility that paying customers will lose access to a product they have invested in and built professional workflows around.

Therefore, I would like Adobe to provide a direct answer to the following questions:

• Is a native Apple Silicon version of Substance 3D Stager actively being developed?
• If development is ongoing, what is the expected timeline?
• If development is not ongoing, will Adobe officially acknowledge that Stager has effectively entered maintenance mode?
• If Apple Silicon support is not planned, what solution will Adobe provide to existing customers who depend on Stager?
• Will Adobe offer a replacement product, migration path, compensation, or any other transition strategy?

Please do not respond with a generic statement such as "we cannot comment on future products" or "we have nothing to announce at this time."

Customers have been hearing those responses for years while the platform landscape has fundamentally changed.

At this point, users deserve transparency. Many of us have invested significant time, money, and production pipelines into Stager. Continuing to remain silent while Apple's transition away from Intel reaches its final stages is not an acceptable long-term communication strategy.

If Stager is still a supported product, Adobe should provide a roadmap.

If Stager is no longer a strategic product, Adobe should say so openly.

Either way, customers deserve a clear answer.

Thank you.

    9 replies

    Ares Hovhannesyan
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    Nov 8, 2026 5:54 PM UTC

    Waiting news after Adobe MAX… 

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    Known Participant
    Oct 19, 2026 1:11 PM UTC

    We have a massive amount of investment in Stager in our workflow here, 100s of 3D products staged in stager and 1000s of renders of our products. I’ve been learning Blender just in case they are stringing us along for a rug pull. Blender is great, more of a learning curve but much more robust of a program. 

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    JMathews
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    Oct 13, 2026 3:26 PM UTC

    Stager and Dimension are still active products and we’ll have major announcements coming in the next few weeks.

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    Adobe Principal Product Manager, 3D & Immersive
    Participant
    Jul 19, 2026 9:31 AM UTC

    This was the reason I switched to blender a year ago and I´m glad I did.

    Adobe doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for communicating with the paying customers. Anyone who works as a Mac user in time-critical areas, or is dependent on reliability, is not in good hands with Adobe, at least in terms of 3D.

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    Matthias 2111
    Participant
    Jun 10, 2026 2:26 PM UTC

    Apple just announced that it won’t support Rosetta2 with its 2027 Mac OS any longer. Should I just end my subscription for stager or is finally a native app for Apple Silicone coming? 

    Please make a clear statement about the near future of stager 3D. The Mac community was more than patient in the last couple of years. The additional stager subscription starts to feel like a waste of money, if it’s not future proofed. 

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    JMathews
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    Oct 19, 2026 5:22 PM UTC

    Adobe Dimension and Substance 3D Stager are still in active, prioritized development.  We will have a major announcement in the coming weeks!

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    Adobe Principal Product Manager, 3D & Immersive
    Inspiring
    Jun 6, 2026 10:26 AM UTC

    A beta was promised for january but it never arrived or was not publicly announced. I let my subscription run out and used a few days to learn the basics of Blender. But since then I’m mostly using Gemini for my presentation stuff (product design), feeding it screendumps from my cad app. The cad apps are also integrating AI prompts for renders. My guess is that Adobe is currently considering their business case.

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    JMathews
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    Oct 19, 2026 5:23 PM UTC

    Apologies for not starting the beta when we expected.  We have an updated version of Dimension and Stager in development as was discussed in January, and we did complete some customer testing, but decided to develop it further before making the general beta avaiable.

    Please check back in the coming weeks, as we’ll have a major announcement available soon!

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    Adobe Principal Product Manager, 3D & Immersive
    psmudger
    Inspiring
    Oct 26, 2026 3:14 PM UTC

    JMathews - we really just want an answer to “Are Dimension and Stager going to get native Apple Silicon versions.” A yes or no would suffice.

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