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Adobe bringing Lightroom to Apple Silicon in December

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Apple has revealed that Adobe is to release its first Apple Silicon app, Lightroom, next month. Photoshop and other flagship apps are to follow early next year.

During its November 10 event, Apple has announced that Adobe is bringing its major apps to Apple Silicon, starting with the Lightroom photography software. All current versions will continue to run, but the new ones will take advantage of Apple Silicon directly.

"Adobe is bringing universal versions of their apps, starting with Lightroom next month," said Craig Federighi, "and other flagship apps, including Photoshop, early next year."

No pricing or specific dates have been revealed yet.



6 Comments

fastasleep 14 Years · 6451 comments

asdasd said:
A simple recompile. 

Have you used Adobe software before?

raoulduke42 11 Years · 86 comments

Looks like Adobe is going to use this transition to give up on Lightroom Classic. Boooo

docno42 16 Years · 3761 comments

Ha - after the 32 bit carbon $!t$how I find it doubly amusing that Adobe was front and center in the announcements :D

Clarus 5 Years · 49 comments

raoulduke42 said:
Looks like Adobe is going to use this transition to give up on Lightroom Classic. Boooo

Incorrect. Adobe already made a statement that Lightroom Classic was going to be on Apple Silicon in that “early next year” group mentioned in the article.

docno42 said:
Ha - after the 32 bit carbon $!t$how I find it doubly amusing that Adobe was front and center in the announcements :D

Lightroom was released 64-bit even before its direct competitor Apple Aperture, which Apple allowed to languish as 32-bit for a while longer.