14 DAY TRIAL // Adobe is obviously one of the companies trying to take full advantage of the new Apple Silicon, so the firm has been in a rush to update its software to fully support the new chips.
So today, Adobe announced that Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic, and Lightroom are all fully updated for ARM processors, and this means they can now run natively on Apple’s M1 chips and Windows 10 ARM.
“We rebuilt Lightroom to take advantage of the newest performance and power efficiency benefits of the Apple M1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon (for Windows 10) processors,” Adobe said today.
The company guarantees that its commitment to Intel hasn’t changed, and in the future, more improvements would be shipped to pretty much every platform out there. Both Windows 10 on ARM and Apple Silicon would continue to receive further improvements to play nice with Adobe software, so expect the experience with Lightroom on these platforms to be more polished in the future.
More products to support Apple Silicon
In the meantime, Adobe says its other products can run on Apple Silicon with Rosetta emulation, though it’s also working on bringing them to M1 chips natively.
“Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Adobe Camera Raw have all been tested and certified to work well with Apple Rosetta emulation as we work on Apple M1 native versions of these apps. We intend to ship Apple M1 native versions as soon as they are ready, so stay tuned! We also shipped an Apple M1 and Windows Arm native version of Photoshop as a beta app in November. You’ll find the Photoshop beta available directly inside the Creative Cloud desktop app,” Adobe says.
The company has also announced that Lightroom widgets are now ready for iOS 14, the latest operating system available on the iPhone and which is available for download today for the iPhone 6s and newer.