Is Your Apple Software 32bit or 64bit Architecture?

With Apple announcing that they are pulling the rug on their 32bit architecture, those with older devices that have not been upgraded to the latest software are going to have problems. Our friends at Cult of Mac made it easy to check whether your current applications are 32 or 64bit and whether they have already been upgraded by the developer. Here you go...

How to check if your favorite app is 32-bitThis change won’t have a dramatic affect; developers will have already updated their most popular titles to support 64-bit architectures long ago. But if you’re using an old piece of software that hasn’t been updated in a while, you might have a problem.
You can check whether or not your favorite apps are 32-bit inside macOS by following the steps below:

1. Click the Apple logo in the menu bar
2. Click “About This Mac”
3. Click “System Report”
4. Scroll down to “Software,” then select “Applications”
5. Select the app you want to check, then look for the field titled “64-bit (Intel)”

Any app that has a “Yes” in this field is already updated for 64-bit computers. Any app that has a “No” in this field is still a 32-bit app. Apple encourages users to contact app developers themselves if their favorite titles haven’t yet been updated.


Apple has already stopped accepting 32-bit app submissions to the Mac App Store, so you’ll only find 64-bit software in there. The company has eliminated 32-bit apps on iOS, too.