Apple Confirms macOS 27 Will Drop Intel Macs and Begin Rosetta's Final Phase
Apple has confirmed that macOS 26 Tahoe is the last major release to support Intel Macs, with macOS 27 requiring Apple silicon hardware and dropping compatibility for the final Intel models, including the 2019 Mac Pro and 2020 iMac. Affected machines will continue receiving security updates for three more years but will no longer get major feature upgrades. On the software side, Rosetta, the translation layer that allows Intel apps to run on Apple silicon, will remain fully functional through macOS 27 before being reduced to a limited version focused only on older unmaintained games. Developers have one final major macOS cycle to migrate their apps to native Apple silicon before full Rosetta support disappears.