Apple Silicon Support in TT 2024

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January 4, 2025
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Last I heard, TurboTax does *not* natively support Apple Silicon Macs, the *only* kind they now sell. No, I don't want to download Rosetta. I remember seeing a System Requirements page that listed Intel Mac as a requirement, but don't see that here: https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/cd-download/tta-system-requirements. Does anyone know if they've addressed the issue for new Macs?

A sure-fire way to see if they support the Apple Silicon architecture is to find the Turbotax app and executable, and in a Terminal window run the 'file' utility on it, looking to see if it supports the 'arm64' architecture. For instance, this command demonstrates that Quicken supports both 'arm64' and 'x86_64' (Intel 64 bit chips):

> file /Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64]
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken (for architecture arm64😞 Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

I'm thinking if the Quicken folks can figure it out the TurboTax developers should be able to do it, but the System Requirements statement isn't explicit about that.

Best answer by carltonroe

Looks to me like still not Apple Silicon, since in the System Report / Applications, it shows "Intel". Just unacceptable after all these years. You can really the effects in the sluggish performance of the program.

TurboTax 2024:

Version: 2024.r17.020

Obtained from: Identified Developer

Last Modified: 2/6/25, 04:55

Kind: Intel

Signed by: Developer ID Application: Intuit Inc. (G4SSPX3CBL), Developer ID Certification Authority, Apple Root CA

Location: /Applications/TurboTax 2024.app

baldietax

I am running TT 2024 on Mac Mini M4 with Mac OS 15, seems fine. Note Mac OS 12 and below no longer supported that's probably a bigger issue for aging Intel Macs that stop at older OS levels.

JackOfToadHallAuthor

Thanks for the reply, but did you ever install Rosetta? (Desired answer: "no".)

Did you try the Terminal command 'file' I mentioned?

I bought the Desktop product a couple of years ago and found it unusable and not returnable. Trying to avoid that situation again.

baldietax

No Rosetta. Hard to know what issue you had previously, but I jumped from 2015 Intel iMac/Macbook on MacOS 11/12, to Mac Mini M4 for 2024 so I don't have extensive experience running TT on Apple silicon in prior years. Here's the output of file command:

/Applications/TurboTax 2024.app/Contents/MacOS/TurboTax 2024: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Probably the bigger issue for folks is going to be MacOS version compatibility, TT 2024 is only supported on MacOS v13 onwards and a lot of older Macs from 2015/6 or so will be starting to age out of OS upgrades needed to run TT.

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