After a multi-month beta period, software company Adobe has publicly released a version of its Photoshop image-editing software that runs natively on M1 Macs like the late-2020 models of the MacBook Air, Mac mini, and 13-inch MacBook Pro.
- Nothing to report yet — 1Password 7 for Mac currently runs well on M1 using Apple's Rosetta 2 technology, but of course we're excited about the opportunities native support will offer and hope to have more to say on the subject soon. Update: I can confirm that we're working on native support for M1! Update 2: 1Password 7.7.1 Beta 2 is Apple Silicon Native, if you'd like to test out a.
- Popular password manager 1Password has been updated to include native support for Apple silicon. Before 1Password version 7.8, users were running the app via Rosetta 2 emulation when using an M1 Mac. The new update includes a raft of other improvements as well, but the big addition is obviously the arrival of Apple silicon support.
There's a 1Password beta ready and waiting for M1 Mac owners. Popular password manager 1Password has a new beta out complete with support for Apple silicon. Anyone running an M1-powered Mac can go and download the new beta right now.
In a blog post announcing the release, Adobe's Pam Clark claims that Photoshop will now run 'significantly' faster on M1 Macs. Here's a snippet:
Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems. Our tests covered a broad scope of activities, including opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject, which all feel noticeably faster. Our early benchmarking also shows that some operations are substantially faster with the new chip.
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Naturally, Adobe says it plans to continue optimizing and improving the Apple Silicon version of Photoshop. The blog post notes a couple features that didn't make it to this initial public release for the architecture: 'Invite to Edit Cloud Documents' and 'Present Syncing.' There are a few others that aren't named in the post, but the post does point out that they're mostly features that were only recently added to other Photoshop builds.
The announcement about M1/Apple Silicon support was accompanied by the introduction of an entirely new feature that is available on this platform, though: the Camera Raw plugin will get 'Super Resolution,' which is basically a machine-learning-driven version of the oft-mocked 'enhance!' functionality seem in TV crime procedurals and sci-fi films. Trained on a large data set, Super Resolution attempts to double both the vertical and horizontal resolutions of an image. It improves on similar features that were already available in Photoshop but which had more limitations.
Advertisement(On a related note, Adobe also says it has added two new features to Photoshop for iPad: 'Cloud Documents Version History' and 'Make Cloud Documents Available Offline.')
Adobe had already brought its Lightroom photo-editing and management application to Macs running on Apple's new chips, and it is working on others as well.
All told, this has been a relatively eventful week for M1 software support. Microsoft's Visual Studio Code received a widely available M1 version for the first time a few days ago, and we've also seen Apple Silicon-native versions of CorelDRAW, Octane X, DaVinci Resolve, and 1Password roll out this week.
Since the introduction of the first Macs with the M1 chip in November last year, several macOS apps have already been updated with support for the Apple Silicon platform. Today, the popular password manager 1Password received a new version that runs natively on the new M1 Macs.
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The M1 is Apple’s first chip built for Macs based on the same ARM architecture that is used in iPhone and iPad chips. Although Macs with the M1 chip are able to run apps developed for Intel machines, these apps need to be emulated and translated through Rosetta — which can result in less performance and some bugs eventually.
Version 7.8 of 1Password, which was released today for all users, introduces support for the Apple Silicon platform, meaning that the app can now take full advantage of the performance and efficiency of the M1 chip on eligible Macs.
We’ve been hard at work on a bucketload of fixes and improvements to everyone’s favorite password manager in between episodes of WandaVision, The Rookie, and Ted Lasso. Additionally, in what will surely be the year of Apple Silicon, we are excited to announce that 1Password now runs natively on Apple’s latest processors and hardware. We’ve been unbelievably impressed at the speed and efficiency of the new Apple Silicon Macs and can’t wait to see what form factors roll out next.
It’s great to see that developers are committed to updating their apps with native support for Apple Silicon Macs as, eventually, Apple will end up disabling Rosetta 2 technology.
1Password 7.8 for macOS is available as a universal binary, so users can download the same app and run it on both Intel and M1 Macs. The update is now available for 1Password users running the standalone version of the app that can be downloaded from its official website. The version available on the Mac App Store is expected to be updated soon.
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