How to best determine if emulation (Rosetta) is in use for a given application?

garyjfk wrote:

I've read numerous post, some conflicting, with respect to the removal of Rosetta which isn't pre-installed with MacBook Pro but used by Adobe for the universal installer in my case for example. Instead of deleting how best to ascertain if emulation is being used for any app running? I'm assuming via Activity Monitor but is there any specific tagging to look for?

Thank you in advance for any insight

Look at the Get Info pane... Command i will open this.

ref:

If you need to install Rosetta on your Mac - Apple Support

.

garyjfk wrote:

Thank you I was unaware of this checkbox but I see it is applicable to only a few Apple programs and not generic across all executables. I did a bit more of a review and found the "Kind" attribute within the Activity Monitor. I believe this is telling me what I was looking for at runtime. I can only come to the conclusion that if Kind = Intel that must be via emulation whilst I'm running ARM hardware.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e7daa952-9645-4bc1-b5b9-a3a3b9940637

If anyone could confirm that would be appreciated.

Thank you.

That sounds right.

An Intel Mac does not include the "Kind" option.