Adobe Photoshop is already native to Apple Silicon, followed by other apps such as Onyx, 1Password and Corel Draw

Adobe has updated Photoshop, one of its flagship apps, to offer native support for Apple silicon processors. According to the company, this version it is 1.5 times faster than the current version which runs after the translation done by Rosetta 2.

An update with better performance and some asterisks

In November Adobe released the first Photoshop support for Apple Silicon in beta form. Now, with the 22.3 update of the application, it gains support for M1 chips to all users. An update that undoubtedly improves the performance of the application, although it does come with some details to be polished later.

In the native version Adobe explains that certain features are not yet available. Actions like import, export or play video is not yet supported in Apple silicon. The motion reduction filter, as well as the button to share an image, are also not operational in this version.

While adobe works on polishing all the details and adjusting all the functionalities for the native function in Photoshop’s Apple silicon, it is clear that, unless we need exactly the functions not available at the moment, we will notice a major improvement after the update.

Onyx, 1Password and Corel Draw join the updates

Along with Photoshop there are some other apps that have also announced support for Macs with M1. It is important that we keep in mind that these applications already work on Macs thanks to Rosetta 2 which takes care of translating the applications before running them. What changes with the update is that now the apps are native to Apple Silicon so performance should improve.

Among the apps that have been recently updated we find: Onyx, Corel Draw, the popular alternative to Photoshop, and the well-known password manager 1Password. Applications that we can now update from the same app or by downloading the new version from its website.