Adobe Photoshop now optimised for Macs with the M1 chip

Adobe Photoshop will now run natively on M1-based MacBooks bringing huge relief for creators globally.

Adobe has announced that Photoshop will now run natively on Macs that are powered by the new M1 chip. This is the second app that's getting optimised for M1 Macs after Lightroom. Adobe's Lightroom was released in December and could run natively on Macs with M1 chips. We have to point out that Adobe did release a beta version of Photoshop for Apple's M1-based MacBooks last year. Though, the new Photoshop version is now widely available for everyone, including Creative Cloud customers. The Photoshop app is now fully optimised for the new Macs and can now run natively on the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. Talking about the new app release, Adobe's Pam Clark said, "Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems. Our tests covered a broad scope of activities, including opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject, which all feel noticeably faster. Our early benchmarking also shows that some operations are substantially faster with the new chip." Adobe says that the public beta builds of Photoshop for Mac customers with M1 chips helped the team with feedbacks that helped it make the native app available for the new architecture.