PLEASE re-add 32-bit support

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Other options include booting Mojave as a guest, or booting Windows on that system.

32-bit apps and 32-bit APIs are gone with Catalina, ripped out, and not coming back.

Agreed. I’m using a 2014 MacBook Pro and when my laptop upgraded to itself Catolina, I tried it for less than a week before I downgraded it back to Mojave. Honestly I am not a fan of games in Apple Arcade as I primary prefer games from Steam on my MacBook.

They should have postponed that update until they fixed the initial bugs it had. It crashed several times when I was using my laptop for school work. And honestly, Apple does not gain or lose anything much by keeping 32 and 64 but games. Developers were already transitioning to 64 bits. The software allowed us to use 32 bits before this update, keeping it a bit longer would have done no harm.

Sure Apple warned developers to transition to 64 bits a few years back, but it’s pointless on old apps used for school/work or old games from small developers who won’t reprogram an old game just to make it into 64 bits. That is literally the reason why I downgraded, just to play Steam games.

I had this MacBook since I was a teenager and now as an adult I want to get a PC bc Apple programming is not the basis for computer games or school/work apps. Windows and Linux is.

Search up Photo Enthusiast on YouTube. I followed his guide to the letter to be back on Mojave. Afterwords, make sure your setting doesn’t automatically update OS to ensure it stays as Mojave until you decide you want to upgrade. Also search up PC builds online to make your own PC using available hardware. This can be a cheaper alternative to buying a new gaming laptop.

ProcrastinationAdult wrote:

They should have postponed that update until they fixed the initial bugs it had. It crashed several times when I was using my laptop for school work.

That discussion happens with most new releases, unfortunately. Some upgrades (as differentiated from updates) are better than others. The first version or three tends to be a little unstable.

Which is why various folks will defer have-to-work product system upgrades (as distinguished from updates) until there’ve been a couple of updates.

Same discussion happens on iOS and iPadOS, too.

I’m in no rush to get to Big Sur on the main systems.

For those with available hardware non-production, running the betas can help identify the worst of the new early, though I;d avoid running betas on anything that has to work, and on anything linked with a has-to-work Apple ID iCloud.

nd honestly, Apple does not gain or lose anything much by keeping 32 and 64 but games. Developers were already transitioning to 64 bits. The software allowed us to use 32 bits before this update, keeping it a bit longer would have done no harm.

Having native 64-bit and only 64-bit APIs makes for less work with (for instance) when migrating/translating/emulating x86-64 apps to Apple silicon arriving with Big Sur; two whole run-time environments is more work and more testing than one. As for “a little longer”, the 64-bit transition has been ongoing since starting OS X ~10.5; for a ~dozen years, and Apple has more recently been posting time-to-go-64 messages openly to end-users since macOS 10.13.4. That’s a lot of messages sent to the app developers.

Need older stuff? Install a hypervisor, load Mojave as a guest, and have at...

32 bit is dead. Microsoft also announced a few months back that all new Windows computers will ship with a 64 bit version of Windows 10 only. They are no longer distributing a 32 bit version.

For now, Win 10 will launch an emulator to run 32 bit apps, but it doesn't work for all of them.

This is what Apple has been (sort of) doing since Mountain Lion. All new Macs since then will boot 64 bit only. That's how long Apple gave vendors to get off their butts and update/upgrade their apps to 64 bit. Those that still haven't done it are either a) lazy, b) don't care about their customers, c) already haven't supported the app for years, or d) the vendor is no longer in business, so there's no one to update the code.

Official details: Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon - Apple

The Apple silicon Macs have not been announced yet, past the developer transition kit from earlier this year.

The Apple silicon system migration will happen over the next two years, per Apple.

Your Mac Pro has an Intel x86-64 processor, and not an Apple silicon processor. It will not run Apple silicon apps, nor iOS or iPadOS apps.

I don’t know what Steam and the various games vendors plan for Apple silicon systems and/or for existing games.

Most systems get five to maybe seven years of hardware support, though how fast the macOS system and app transition will be, nobody here knows.

Apple has announced tools that allow Intel x86-64 binaries on Apple silicon systems with Rosetta 2 and related. Interestingly, Microsoft Windows 10 on Arm has recently announced that similar capabilities for running x86-64 apps on Arm-based Windows systems are in development.

If you want to play 32-bit games then buy a Windows PC.

32 bit software is going the way of the Dodo.

Even iPhone and iPad runs only 64-Bit apps.

It is not clear why you would want to use old disappearing technology. Do you also want to drive a car with a carborator? Do you insist on watching a tube TV? It must be getting difficult to play your 8 track tapes. Move on, recognize and accept that 32 bit apps are going away for technological reasons.

in addition to the other useful comments, I would like to add my comment. Even PCs are going to 64 bit. Whether we like it or not, that is the future of computing.

Mac isn’t commonly used for gaming. Users aren’t buying piles of games for Mac, so vendors are creating fewer games. Fewer games means fewer games-related buyers, too.

For iOS and iPadOS, yes, there are lots of games. Per Apple, those iOS and iPadOS games will work on the upcoming Apple silicon Macs, too.

Microsoft Windows has been 64-bit for many years. That started with variants of Windows XP.

Availability of Windows 10 32-bit builds has ended.

Windows (64-bit) can be installed on and will boot on that Mac.

If you want to use old and obsolete apps (e.g., Photoshop CS6 was obsoleted by

Adobe years ago), never upgrade your OS and never buy a new computer.