That said, the Intel versions of most apps work just fine under Rosetta 2-they're just less performant than they would be if they were native. It's often things like background utilities and extensions that are outliers. Most Apple Silicon Mac users who open Activity Monitor and sort processes by 'Kind' will find that they are still running Apple-native and Intel-based apps on their machines, but the gap has been closing. Some niche applications that are not well-supported may never make the transition to the new architecture, but users have expectations for widely used apps like Dropbox and OneDrive, which are mandatory for many workflows and workplaces. On the other hand, competing utilities Google Drive and Box were relatively quick to support M1. However, the company later clarified in a statement to 9to5Mac that it is testing an M1 version and that support will come sometime in 2022. Advertisementįurther Reading Adobe brings new Creative Cloud apps to M1 Macs and the webDropbox drew the ire of users when a support-forum discussion saw an employee suggesting that M1 support wasn't a high priority. There are still some major exceptions, of course, like Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and Autodesk Maya, but by and large, we've seen a lot of popular applications go native since the debut of the M1 last year. Native app support for Apple's architecture has been marching aggressively forward across the macOS software ecosystem. We will be rolling out this feature to the Insiders ring over the next few days. To enable the preview, you'll need to make sure that you’ve joined the Insiders ring and enabled the preview in OneDrive Settings > About. We know this has been a long awaited and highly requested feature, and we're thrilled to make it available for early access.

We’re excited to announce that OneDrive sync for Windows on ARM and for Apple silicon is now available as a public preview!

Microsoft has announced a public preview of OneDrive sync for ARM devices, signaling that a public release of a native version of OneDrive on M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max Macs will arrive eventually.ĩto5Mac first discovered and reported on the announcement after Microsoft's Ankita Kirti posted the following to the OneDrive blog this morning:

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