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The5thbeatle
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November 24, 2019
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Mac OS 10.15 Catalina Compatible

  • November 24, 2019
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I've been doing weekly interet searches to see if the Adobe Cloud apps that I use (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) are now compatable with the new Catalina OS. Does anybody know anything about this?

I haven't yet updated to this new OS.

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Just Shoot Me
Legend
November 25, 2019

May I ask what is your rush to upgrade to Catalina. If the version of OS X you are currently using is working properly why not stay with that until all the bugs in both catalina and the apps you need are worked out.

williamo20033856
Participating Frequently
December 7, 2019

Just shoot me has a great point. I upgraded to Catalina and there were so many bugs with InDesign that I ended up reinstalling the previous OS (Mojave I believe). That took a full day pretty much on the phone with Apple between all the backing up, reinstalling, etc. etc. Personally I would not upgrade to Catalina until all the Adobe bugs are worked out.

Just Shoot Me
Legend
December 7, 2019

What gets me is how people seem to blame a company like Adobe for others, Users and other companies, mistakes and missteps.

What Apple is doing is Forces obsolescence in both hardware and software. Why not blame them for this mess, Not Adobe?

Other than the normal bug in all software code why is it Adobe's fault for users upgrading to a New OS without checking what will and what will NOT work with that new OS.

That's akin to saying, I switched to Linux as a OS and my Adobe apps don't work anymore, Why did you do that Adobe?

 

And the Rush, by people, to fix something that is NOT broken.

No one needed to upgrade to Catalina. It wasn't like your current Mac computer would Stop working if you did not install Catalina. In fact the exact opposite happened, your current software stopped working after the upgrade.

 

 

 

 

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 24, 2019

Catalina works with the latest 2020 apps but there are known compatibility problems which vary by product.  Better to wait until all the bugs are sorted.   See link below for details. 

Do my Adobe apps work in macOS Catalina 10.15?

https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/fix-macos-64-bit-compatibility-errors.html

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
The5thbeatle
Known Participant
November 25, 2019

I only ever use Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. 
Any idea as to when Adobe will catch up to the latest Mac OS?

John Waller
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 25, 2019

Have you upgraded to Catalina yet or are you holding off?

 

Many people on Catalina are already running the very latest versions OK. Issues are being addressed as reports come in. Don't know if we'll have 100% compatibility for several months yet.

Tacafy大尉
Legend
November 24, 2019

The5thbeatle, Hello.
I think this help is useful.

Do my Adobe apps work in macOS Catalina 10.15?

There may still be problems, so you may want to wait for a while before updating to Catalina.

The5thbeatle
Known Participant
November 24, 2019

Thanks for replying, but that link you gave me is in Spanish.
What does it say?

John Waller
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 24, 2019

For the record, you can always click on the Change Region button at the bottom of Adobe pages to get the English version of that page: