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Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Lightroom “Basic support for Apple M1 chip”

Adobe announced that Photoshop will support native Apple M1 chip in March 2021, and Illustrator, InDesign, and Lightroom Classic will also support M1 processor natively. A beta version of Premiere Pro is also available for the M1 processor.

In November 2020, the M1 chip appeared as the first Apple Silicon, an SoC developed by Apple. The M1 chip features a dramatic improvement in performance per watt compared to the SoC used in existing Macs. Adobe proceeded with Mac support equipped with M1 chip, and first provided basic support in Photoshop beta in November 2020, then Lightroom in December 2020 basic support, and in March 2021, the full version of Photoshop that natively supports M1 chip. showed off

What was announced this time is basic support for Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom Classic, and Premiere Pro beta M1 chips. Illustrator says that booting speed is 4 times faster and scrolling performance is improved by 390% when editing complex vectors. In InDesign, it is reported that the speed of opening graphics-heavy files is increased by 185% and scrolling performance is improved by 78%. Related information can be found here.