If you’re an Apple user and want to run an Intel-based Universal Mac app on your M1 Mac, there are a few things you need to do. First, make sure that your M1 Mac has the latest software updates installed. Second, download the Intel Universal App for Mac from the App Store. Third, open the app and follow the on-screen instructions. Fourth, make sure that your M1 Mac has at least 4GB of free disk space and that you have installed the latest version of macOS Sierra (10.12). Finally, launch the app and follow the on-screen instructions. ..
First, open your “Applications” folder. One way to do it quickly is to open “Finder” and choose Go > Applications from the menu bar at the top of the screen. You can also open a Finder window and click “Applications” in the sidebar.
In the “Applications” folder, locate the universal binary app you’d like to run through Rosetta. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) the app’s icon and select “Get Info.”
In the “Get Info” window that appears, look toward the bottom of the “General” section. Enable the “Open using Rosetta” checkbox.
You can now close the Info window.
The next time you open the app, it will open the x86_64 version of the app using Rosetta instead of the arm64 version. If you’d like to go back to running the Apple Silicon version of the app instead, open the app’s “Get Info” window again and uncheck “Open using Rosetta.” Good luck!
This will hopefully become less necessary over time. Apple’s first Apple Silicon Macs, which feature the M1 chip, will provide a platform for developers to port their applications to ARM so that they run natively on future Apple Silicon Macs.
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