Adobe Photoshop has native support for Apple M1 chip

Apple previously launched MacBook equipped with an M1 chip. This ARM micro-architecture-based processor is also the first time that Apple has used ARM chips on desktop devices. In the future, Apple will fully switch to the ARM architecture and abandon Intel.

For users and developers, the software can also run on the M1 version of the MacBook, because Apple has prepared a dedicated emulator that allows traditional macOS applications to run on the M1 chip through the emulator. Of course, the simulator may cause the software to lose some performance.

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Therefore, many developers have been actively adapting to the M1 chip, that is, re-developing their own software based on the ARM architecture, including Adobe. The company has previously adapted applications such as lightroom to the M1 chip, and now the image processing software Photoshop has finally ushered in the M1 native version.

Adobe said in their blog that Photoshop, which was originally developed based on the M1 chip, has a performance improvement of 1.5 times. The performance improvement here does not refer to the performance of the simulator but compared to the Mac device based on the Intel processor. The company also said it will continue to work with Apple to improve the performance of its software.

Although it has native support for Apple’s M1 chip, Adobe is still a bit anxious about this update, so some functions have not yet supported the M1 chip, such as the invitation to edit cloud document function and the preset synchronization function are not yet supported.

In addition, today Adobe also updated Photoshop for iPad, which has Cloud Documents Version History and can use cloud document functions offline. Interested users can visit Adobe’s official website and AppStore to download the latest version.