The Apple Silicon version of Google Chrome has trouble with making Instagram posts. I can make them on Firefox though, and making Instgram posts works fine when I use Chrome on an Intel Mac.
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What apps are still not working under Silicon? [MERGED]
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If they're light, they may run well enough using UTM and installing Mojave in a VM. UTM wasn't near stable or fast enough for me, but it may work for you. I really wish we had a better x86/64 emulator, but UTM (which uses QEMU) is it. I didn't buy my 2020 iMac for nothing.
You could also get an old intel Mac Mini and run your old apps via VNC..
On a M1 iMac I recently discovered found that GarageBand cannot handle Arturia Analog Lab (audio software) as a plug-in. Both claim Apple silicon support and both have been recently updated. The workaround is to run GarageBand in rosetta. Works fine in Logic. Weird but true.
I have three things still listed as Intel: my Logitech keyboard and mouse software, a piece of security software my company has on my work machine, and the MS Teams audio driver. Everything else I use on either of my Macs is AS native now.
The Teams audio driver was updated to Silicon a while ago.
Logitech Options+ is Apple native. You need to uninstall the old version and install the new one.
Thank you--I did just that on my work computer this morning and it worked. Oddly enough, my personal machine had already done all this on its own buy my work computer needed it done manually.
I wonder nobody mentioned the WhatsApp Desktop App. Mine is a disaster and its running poorer and poorer on my M1. Now when I start the application I always get the rainbow circle for 5-10seconds as if I open up a 10GB Photoshop file. Whats wrong with it, are there any alternatives?
They have a native M1 version on their website now. Works well for me.
Oh wow. Didnt know that! Will try
is it the beta version? I downloaded it and my WA icon is a yellow one?!
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WOW!!! Do not try this at home. This new beta Whatsapp just behaved like a virus in my M1 and my laptop for the first for 3 years almost was unresponsable and I had to force quit everything before my laptop started to become boiling. Wtf, this App seems even much worse than the not native one. Meta is pretty much the worst tech company out there. Should get sued for creating Apps whoch behave like malware. All was getting super slow with having it installed. What a fail!
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You sure there's no issue with your computer? I've had all the WhatsApp versions on various Macs; including the M1 beta and there's been no issues.
If I have only problems with opening this App, I guess its not my Computer? But who knows, how should I test it to give you a more precised answer?
I'll probably upgrade to my first M-series Mac later this year. I see that a few of the apps (older and from very small devs) I have still are not Apple Silicon native. This made me wonder if most of the mid- to medium-sized apps the rest of you guys use have native Apple Silicon support now? And big names/popular ones not offer Apple Silicon support yet?
I assume some of the older, smaller apps I have that are Intel-only will just stop working once Apple abandons the Apple Silicon version of Rosetta.
I assume some of the older, smaller apps I have that are Intel-only will just stop working once Apple abandons the Apple Silicon version of Rosetta.