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Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won't stay around indefinitely.
Credit: Aurich Lawson
The support list for macOS Tahoe still includes Intel Macs, but it's been whittled down to just four models, all released in 2019 or 2020. We speculated that this meant that the end was near for Intel Macs, and now we can confirm just how near it is: macOS Tahoe will be the last new macOS release to support any Intel Macs. All new releases starting with macOS 27 will require an Apple Silicon Mac.
Apple will provide additional security updates for Tahoe until fall 2028, two years after it is replaced with macOS 27. That's a typical schedule for older macOS versions, which all get one year of major point updates that include security fixes and new features, followed by two years of security-only updates to keep them patched but without adding significant new features.
Apple is also planning changes to Rosetta 2, the Intel-to-Arm app translation technology created to ease the transition between the Intel and Apple Silicon eras. Rosetta will continue to work as a general-purpose app translation tool in both macOS 26 and macOS 27.
But after that, Rosetta will be pared back and will only be available to a limited subset of apps—specifically, older games that rely on Intel-specific libraries but are no longer being actively maintained by their developers. Devs who want their apps to continue running on macOS after that will need to transition to either Apple Silicon-native apps or universal apps that run on either architecture.
Apple took a similar approach to the original Rosetta technology, created to ease the transition from PowerPC chips to Intel CPUs in the mid-2000s. Rosetta was available in Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6, but it was removed in version 10.7 in 2011, around five years after the release of the first Intel Macs.
It was inevitable that Apple would eventually stop supporting Intel Macs, but some models have been dropped more aggressively than others. While most Intel Macs were replaced with updated Apple Silicon models in 2020 or 2021, Apple was selling the 2019 Intel Mac Pro and a few versions of the 2018 Intel Mac mini until well into 2023; someone who bought one of those pricey Mac Pros that year will have received just three new macOS updates and a total of five years of security updates. The Mac mini fares even worse; while the Mac Pro will run macOS Tahoe, last year's macOS 15 Sequoia was the end of the line for the 2018 Mac mini.
Credit: Aurich Lawson
The support list for macOS Tahoe still includes Intel Macs, but it's been whittled down to just four models, all released in 2019 or 2020. We speculated that this meant that the end was near for Intel Macs, and now we can confirm just how near it is: macOS Tahoe will be the last new macOS release to support any Intel Macs. All new releases starting with macOS 27 will require an Apple Silicon Mac.
Apple will provide additional security updates for Tahoe until fall 2028, two years after it is replaced with macOS 27. That's a typical schedule for older macOS versions, which all get one year of major point updates that include security fixes and new features, followed by two years of security-only updates to keep them patched but without adding significant new features.
Apple is also planning changes to Rosetta 2, the Intel-to-Arm app translation technology created to ease the transition between the Intel and Apple Silicon eras. Rosetta will continue to work as a general-purpose app translation tool in both macOS 26 and macOS 27.
But after that, Rosetta will be pared back and will only be available to a limited subset of apps—specifically, older games that rely on Intel-specific libraries but are no longer being actively maintained by their developers. Devs who want their apps to continue running on macOS after that will need to transition to either Apple Silicon-native apps or universal apps that run on either architecture.
Apple took a similar approach to the original Rosetta technology, created to ease the transition from PowerPC chips to Intel CPUs in the mid-2000s. Rosetta was available in Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6, but it was removed in version 10.7 in 2011, around five years after the release of the first Intel Macs.
It was inevitable that Apple would eventually stop supporting Intel Macs, but some models have been dropped more aggressively than others. While most Intel Macs were replaced with updated Apple Silicon models in 2020 or 2021, Apple was selling the 2019 Intel Mac Pro and a few versions of the 2018 Intel Mac mini until well into 2023; someone who bought one of those pricey Mac Pros that year will have received just three new macOS updates and a total of five years of security updates. The Mac mini fares even worse; while the Mac Pro will run macOS Tahoe, last year's macOS 15 Sequoia was the end of the line for the 2018 Mac mini.
