Support Ending for Intel-based Apps popups are very annoying.

No Apple employees participate in these fellow user-supported and public communities. Apple is not going to suppress these messages, nor can you, as they originate from the protected macOS System volume.

The Rosetta 2 support that you have depended on for the last six years to run compatible X86_64 applications on Apple Silicon will end with the release of macOS 28 in the Fall of 2027. Your goal now is to approach the vendors' providing these Intel-compiled applications and determine their commitment to build either Universal2 (X86_64, arm64) or strictly arm64 (Apple Silicon) applications. If they refuse, you will have little choice other than select an alternate, data-compatible product that is built for Apple compatibility.

On the universal apps triggering it — worth checking if those apps have any bundled Intel-only components. Some apps are technically universal in their main binary but still ship helper tools, plugins, or background agents that are x86_64 only. That's enough to trigger the notification even when the app itself shows as universal in Finder. Running file /path/to/app/Contents/MacOS/appname in Terminal will show what architecture the main binary actually is, but the helpers buried inside the bundle often tell a different story.

nulz wrote:

I can't control when software developers will update there tools.

Delete those apps. If they haven't been updated by now, they aren't going to be.

nulz wrote:

• I know some companies will fix the issue, I just don't need my students & staff nagged by it every login.

Epson Dash board sold with their newest wide format printers is still intel; as are most of their current utilities.

• Paper cut and many other printer tools still Intel.

Hardware support for a variety of rare 360 cameras intel.. sadly they will never likely get an updates. I guess run it off line on an old OS's. It will make creating VR movies very difficult; since all that hardware is expensive but low profit.

Support for intel I hope is handed off to another company if Apple doesn't want to keep it up..

To appreciate where Apple has come to , we need to understand where Apple has come from

Apple Silicon (ARM64) Transition (2020): Apple announced the new Universal 2 binary format on June 22, 2020, during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

This format allows a single application to run natively on both Intel-based and Apple Silicon-based Macs.

That wold mean, the software developers have had 6 Year to rewrite their software to comply with the requirements to run without the need for Rosetta 2

The other major transition was >>

Intel (x86) Transition (2005): The original Universal binary was announced on June 6, 2005, at that year's WWDC. It enabled software to run natively on both the outgoing PowerPC processors and the new Intel processors

These popups appear for both pure Intel and universal apps, and they should only appear for pure Intel. Most of my apps are universal at this point. This is really on Apple, no need to blame vendors or the user.

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nulz wrote:

• "Support Ending for Intel-based Apps" I don't want clients who login into a computer to see these endless warning popups as they start working.

I can't control when software developers will update there tools. Nagging clients with pops up is very annoying.

Please provide a plist or setting.. that will block all such warnings, for all accounts new old etc...

• It is BAD practice to use lots of popups! they are NOISE, and a wasted mouse click.

One person's "data" is another person's "noise."

I actually find those notifications useful. For me they pertain to certain printer/scanner drivers for very old all-in-one printer/scanners. They reminded me to find alternatives, and I just obtained a new Epson-3950 printer/scanner which is far better than the 2010 and 2015 ones I was using.

For what it's worth, the popups do not appear for the universal apps I have installed.