M1 MacBook Air with macOS beta developer account. PS 2021 freezes on open!?

[benn lloyd]

Hiya,

ive just purchased the Adobe suite, coming from Affinity - yes I know 😁, and I'm completely new to the whole thing and really want too learn. 
I've just got M1 MacBook Air 16GB ram 512 SSD and as I have a developer account I therefore have updated to the newest macOS beta. 

I've installed the CC app on it and various apps. 
my problem is PS freezes upon opening and I have to always force close the app. The other apps work perfectly and open and run fine. 
 Do I have to uninstall the beta version of macOS and reinstall a fresh RC of macOS for PS to work or is there a workaround please?

I'm at a loss what to do now and have tried various lower versions of PS and also tried to open PS with a lower resolution from the 'more info' section, again too no avail. 
it's the M1 silicon version of PS I have installed and there is no 'open with Rosetta' in the more info section. Also there is no beta PS listed anymore that I could find that works in my situation. 
Any help would really be appreciated. 
Sorry for the long 'first post. 
many thanks,

benn. 

[kevin stohlmeyer · Accepted solution]

Photoshop has not been released to run on the New Mac OS Monterrey yet. 

You are working on a test/beta environment - nothing is guaranteed to run on that. 

You'll either have to downgrade/uninstall your beta Mac OS or run on another system. 

[benn lloyd]

It's beta 2, the previous version of macOS, as Monterey was only released last night.
Yeah I know about the whole beta ecosystem. I just wondered if anyone had, or found, a workaround.

No worries as I updated my Air after the WWDC opener last night and put PS 2021 on my Mac Pro of which it still runs smooth. 
I just wanted to see how much faster, if any, PS ran on silicon. No problem I can wait. 
Thanks for your reply. 

[kevin stohlmeyer]

The M1 compatible version of Photoshop 21.4.2 is much faster on M1 mini with Big Sur. 

I run it daily and love it. 

[benn lloyd]

Nice. I really like the M1 mini but because i treated my self to the M1 Air 16GB and M1 iPad Pro 1TB, need that 16GB for future proof 😉, I couldn't justify getting the mini as well  too my wife 🤣. I've kept the m1 iPad stock as I'm still finding few errors with Monterey which as you've said is understandable. The Adobe suite on that M1 iPad Pro  runs like a dream. I'm so tempted to go back too Big Sur on my M1 Air but I really don't know yet, I'm definitely tempted 😁.