Zoom’s new update is supposed to bring the app support for Apple Silicon Macs, including native performance on the M1 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. The video conferencing platform released a separate installation for its app for Apple’s silicon running Macs. The description of the new app reads:
Support for Apple Silicon processors – Zoom desktop client will better support computers with ARM CPUs. A separate installer is available for download in the Zoom Download Center.
Zoom app grew in popularity during the Covid-19, where many professions took to online and work from home notions. Early indications were that the Intel version of Zoom performed quite admirably on M1 Macs despite running in Rosetta 2 translation mode.
But the new update will make Zoom a Universal application, meaning it runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. The M1 processor allows you to run three different types of applications on your Mac:
- iPhone and iPad apps on the Mac through the Mac App Store
- Rosetta 2 translation will enable you to run apps made for Intel Macs on Apple Silicon, and sometimes apps perform better in Rosetta with M1 than they did with Intel, Apple says.
- Universal apps are apps built for Apple Silicon and Intel processors and are downloadable from the Mac App Store or the web.
The update is available today, and if you want to read the full description, here are the release notes for the Zoom update here.
