Macbook Pro M1 8Gb bad performance in Lightroom and Photoshop

adobe Software update does not push these versions to you. You have to ACTIVELY Install these newest versions for the M1 chip.

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/apple-silicon-m1-chip.html

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Did you read the adobe link above?

LIGHTROOM and PHOTOSHOP are available in new M1 versions.

Go get them, and when you have tried them, please report back so other users can benefit form your testing.

May have found an answer on Adobe support. They recommend uninstalling the software and then reinstalling. Just updating doesn't seem to install the M1 version. I did as recommended and so far Photoshop seems to be working normally.

There is an updated M1 version of photoshop available from adobe. Be sure you have the latest version.

I've got a Mac mini M1 8gb ram/256 SSD. I find performance with Lightroom Classic generally fine but not as good as some of the you tube reviews would suggest. And probably not as good as a higher spec intel Mac.

I'm working with a 250,000 image catalog and previews located on the mini's SSD. I don't use 1:1 previews (or only occasionally) just let it build standard ones. There is a 2 or 3 second lag loading the higher resolution preview (generally 24 or 42 mp files) when switching images and zooming to 100%, tools and sliders are generally instantaneous/fast except for the spot correction tool that can get laggy.

I'm using a 32" 4k screen, usually scaled to look like 2560x1440, MacOS scales down from 5120x2880 to do this, which also uses resources, I sometimes switch to native 4k resolution, this may improve performance a little but text is a little small for me so usually stick with the scaled option.

I had recently moved from a windows pc and had rebuilt my entire catalog a few months ago on a 2015 2.9ghz i5 8gb MacBook Pro as found the imported windows catalog glitchy. The M1 is considerably faster than the old MacBook Pro.

Performance is better if the lr window isn't full screen, and for a test I created a smaller catalog of 1000 selected images, again performance was better, but not enough to give up the convenience of having everything in the same catalog.

I'm hoping that when LR Classic has a native version performance will improve, but I'll probably see what the M1 successors are like and consider this M1 mini a temporary option.

Heyyy i just reinstalled my Photoshop and all my problem with Wrap/resizing smart object is working perfectly now!

Even if it says you’re updated you should still reinstall Adobe Photoshop. Give it a try and see if it gets rid of your problem folks. Thank you all!

I am having the same issues with Photoshop where it stutters after applying an effect (rolling beach ball) and often times crashes. I have the M1 Mac mini with the standard 16 GB of memory (they don't offer more and we can't install more ourselves) and 256 SSD. I use it mostly to scan and retouch photos and can't seem to work with more than one image at the same time without it stuttering and crashing. The images range from 2 to 50 MB. I did not have these issue with my previous 2011 iMac desktop running High Sierra. I switched to M1 Mac Mini (least expensive option until they came out with the new iMac) because I needed to upgrade Final Cut Pro but haven't tried working in it yet to find out if this is only happening when using Adobe software. Reports say that we have to think about memory differently when it comes to M1. Either we all have faulty Macs or Adobe hasn't done a very good job with upgrading their software for the M1 chip working with a limit of 16MB of memory. Right now Photoshop for me is a memory hog.

Yes, this is ridiculous waiting 10 seconds to make a crop in Lightroom Classic. These M1 macs were supposed to be so fast but I'm very dissatisfied so far. I'm hoping Adobe can find a fix for this. My 2009 MacPro could do this much faster.

My problem is more with Lightroom and cropping photos. There is about a 5 second delay when cropping a single picture. I had a Photoshop issue with some filters not loading but that was corrected by setting Photoshop to open with Rosetta. Still not very impressed with my M1 MacBook Pro.

I am experience the same issue in Photoshop MacBook Pro M1 2020 (2 weeks old). A layer converted to Smart Object and I am attempting to use Wrap is taking 10 seconds or more delay. It’s very frustrating because I thought this is going to be a big change for me as I am a freelance designer that uses Windows OS for so many years and Adobe CC is working just fine there. All YouTube Reviews sucks then if they are hiding the real problem in Photoshop. I hope this will fix right away because it’s frustrating. Love you all

My PS updates itself to the latest version all the time. Same with Lightroom which is the program I’m experiencing the cropping photos problem.