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Mike:M
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July 28, 2021
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How to install Adobe apps on M1 Macs without Rosetta?

  • July 28, 2021
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Adobe claims to support Macs M1 natively for some products, but all available packages at https://creativecloud.adobe.com/apps/all/desktop  have the dependency on Rosetta (Installer app is an intel binary). Even some alternative links from support points to packages with intel binaries. So, how to install Adobe app without Rosetta on Apple silicon Macs?    

    Correct answer Jeffrey_A_Wright

    ll of you responding on here hatefully to people not wanting to install Rosetta 2 are asinine. You all have no idea what these people are asking #1 and #2 have no understanding of why they are requesting it. They are pointing out that the installers themselves have not been updated not to require Rosetta 2, and they should be if Adobe is claiming FULL native Apple silicon support. That would indicate that Rosetta 2 is not required at ALL, so they should not need to install Rosetta 2. Yet they are! Also, Rosetta 2 is only a bandaid provided by Apple for lazy developers. They will at some point drop support for it altogether. So if, as a developer, you are going to take the time to update your software to run natively on Apple silicon, then why wouldn't you at the same time update your installer package? Doing this makes no sense at all and is sloppy. I fully understand all these people NOT wanting to install Rosetta 2. Get off their backs and stop being jerks!


    JCWalton, Mike_M, and others thank you for the feedback regarding the installation mechanism used to deliver Creative Cloud apps.

     

    Would you please bookmark https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/apple-silicon-m1-chip.html to be kept up to date regarding Adobe application support for Apple's new processors? I would also recommend reviewing https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211861 to understand better what Rosetta 2 is used for and the difference between Universal and Intel-based apps.

     

    If you are trying to provide feedback on behalf of an organization, please get in touch with your organization's Creative Cloud administrator to provide that feedback.

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    Test Screen Name
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    July 28, 2021

    I don't see any contradiction. An app is not its installer. Who cares that the installer isn't native, since you only run it once. Efficiency is hardly an issue.

     

    What is this "I will not install Rosetta" thing? It makes no sense to me.

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      Mike:MAuthor
      Participant
      July 28, 2021

      A native app should have the native way to be installed. 

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        diptangshumandal09
        Participating Frequently
        October 17, 2021

        What specific experience is being destroyed by Rosetta?  You should tell Apple about it since it's their product, not Adobe's.

        https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211861

         

        This is a user-to-user forum.  Nobody here works for Adobe or develops the software.

         

         

         


        The experience of communication is being destroyed here. It was this forum only where I or others got to know that the installer require Rosetta and not the actual app. Hence it was not evident that Adobe Lightroom in my case is native M1 compatible. I was trying to find the M1 compatible app. Hence as per experience, Adobe is to blame here for improper communication. Before coming to Google search for a solution, I contacted Adobe support who themselves were not able to address the same issue as they also did not communicated what @Test Screen Name clearly mentioned. So,

        1. We (atleast I) do not have any issues installing Rosetta, but as stated above, the information is not clear

         

        2. @Nancy OShea The Apple url you shared also say to contact the developer (Adobe here) to get the compatibility information. Hence, Apple has no role here

         

        3. Yes, this is an user to user forum, that is why we are asking from a user/client's perspective and not the technicalities 

        I guess I have been able to communicate my point here?

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