GoKawiilApple lets App Store developers drop Intel Mac support for macOS 13+ apps
Apple emailed Mac App Store developers saying universal apps requiring macOS 13 or later can now remove Intel-based Mac support entirely and build for arm64 only. This follows Apple's completed six-year transition to its own silicon and its earlier statement that macOS 26 Tahoe would be the last major release supporting Intel Macs. Rosetta, the tool letting Apple-silicon Macs run older Intel apps, will lose general-purpose support after macOS 27.
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This accelerates the practical obsolescence of Intel Macs, since developers now have official encouragement to stop testing and building for them, likely speeding the disappearance of updated software for those machines. Owners of older Intel hardware should expect a shrinking pool of compatible apps well before their computers physically fail.
- Developers can now drop Intel support for apps requiring macOS 13 or later.
- Apple recommends switching build settings to arm64 only to simplify development.
- Rosetta's general Intel-app translation support ends after macOS 27.
Apple MacBook Air (M4) — With Apple letting developers drop Intel support entirely, the MacBook Air with the M4 chip is the natural landing spot for anyone still on an older Intel Mac. It runs modern macOS releases natively, so new App Store apps built solely for Apple silicon just work — no Rosetta warnings required.
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