{"id":63,"date":"2026-09-27T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/macos-build-apple-silicon-intel-ends\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:11:43","slug":"macos-build-apple-silicon-intel-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/macos-build-apple-silicon-intel-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"The macOS build moves to Apple Silicon \u2014 Intel Macs are no longer supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An announcement that affects Mac users directly: <strong>DrawingStamp&nbsp;Pro no longer supports Macs with an Intel processor.<\/strong> The macOS build will from now on be built for Apple&nbsp;Silicon \u2014 that is, for Macs with an M1 chip or later. There will be no further Intel build.<\/p>\n<h2>Why now<\/h2>\n<p>The timetable is Apple&#8217;s, not ours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>macOS&nbsp;26 is the last version for Intel Macs.<\/strong> macOS&nbsp;27 runs on Apple&nbsp;Silicon only.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rosetta&nbsp;2 is being retired<\/strong> \u2014 the translation layer that lets Intel programs run on newer Macs is supported for the last time in macOS&nbsp;27 and largely disappears after that.<\/li>\n<li>Since macOS&nbsp;26.4 the operating system <strong>warns at launch<\/strong> when a program runs through Rosetta.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On top of that comes something you do not see from the outside: several of the components the detection is built on are no longer published for Intel Macs by their own makers. Maintaining an Intel build would mean standing on an ever older foundation \u2014 and doing so precisely where the detection is meant to get faster and better.<\/p>\n<h2>What this means for Intel Mac users<\/h2>\n<p>Plainly, without softening it: <strong>there will be no further build for Intel Macs<\/strong>, and we do not guarantee continued operation on those machines either. If you use DrawingStamp&nbsp;Pro on an Intel Mac, plan for a move to an Apple&nbsp;Silicon machine or to Windows.<\/p>\n<p>If this affects you, please get in touch through the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.drawingstamppro.com\/\">support portal<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/en\/contact.html\">contact form<\/a>. We would like to know who is affected \u2014 we would rather hear it from you than learn it later from an error report.<\/p>\n<h2>What changes for everyone else<\/h2>\n<p>For users on Apple&nbsp;Silicon something changes for the better, even if it stays invisible at first: until now the macOS build ran as an Intel program through Rosetta&nbsp;2 \u2014 translated, in other words. From now on it runs directly on the processor it was built for. The macOS launch warning goes away, and we are no longer tied to library versions that still happen to exist for Intel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows and Linux are unaffected.<\/strong> Windows remains a 64-bit build as before, and this decision changes nothing about the plans for Linux.<\/p>\n<h2>Where things stand<\/h2>\n<p>The macOS build is currently being rebuilt for Apple&nbsp;Silicon; that includes the low-level components and the bundled text recognition, all of which have to be produced afresh for the new architecture. For that reason the beta deliveries of the past few days temporarily contain <strong>the Windows build only<\/strong>. The next macOS delivery will be an Apple&nbsp;Silicon program.<\/p>\n<p>We are deliberately not naming a date while the checks on the new architecture have yet to run through. Beta testers will hear it first, as always \u2014 in the release notes for the delivery in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An announcement that affects Mac users directly: DrawingStamp&nbsp;Pro no longer supports Macs with an Intel processor. The macOS build will from now on be built for Apple&nbsp;Silicon \u2014 that is, for Macs with an M1 chip or later. There will be no further Intel build. Why now The timetable is Apple&#8217;s, not ours: macOS&nbsp;26 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingstamppro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}