Following the announcement that macOS Tahoe would be the last version of the operating system that will support Intel-powered Macs, support for Rosetta 2 is planned to be mostly discontinued by late 2027. This discontinuation is going to impact a lot of people who use non-native applications in Apple Silicon Macs, including gaming and computer-aided drafting applications. Apple did indicate that a small subset of functions from Rosetta 2 will be maintained for an indeterminate period of time after the support discontinuation date, but it is unclear whether the non-native applications will work.

I am planning on getting a new Apple Silicon Mac to replace my current Intel-powered MacBook Air, which I have had since December 2019 but is not able to run macOS Sequoia and will be unable to run Tahoe.

About the Rosetta translation environment | Apple Developer Documentation

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.7

Posted on Jun 12, 2025 4:15 PM

Posted on Jun 14, 2025 7:03 AM

There will always be a certain group who caterwauls about this sort of thing, claiming they are entitled to perpetual support and bellowing about ‘planned obsolescence’. It’s like death and taxes. We all had our favorite goto app that got orphaned by change and the developer either couldn’t or wouldn’t update their code. Life goes on.

Rosetta 2 support discontinuation notice