Adobe Illustrator Macos Catalina Today

As of today, macOS Catalina is no longer receiving security updates from Apple (support ended November 2022). However, many design studios stick with Catalina because:

Reasons to stay:

Reasons to upgrade (to Ventura or Sonoma): adobe illustrator macos catalina

This is the real question. If your Mac is 2017 or newer, update to macOS Monterey or Ventura for better Illustrator performance, Metal GPU acceleration, and fewer font conflicts.

But if you’re on a Mac Pro 5,1 (2012) or MacBook Air 2017 – Catalina is your last official macOS. In that case: As of today, macOS Catalina is no longer

The single most important fact about macOS Catalina is that it does not run 32-bit applications.

Adobe Illustrator CC 2019 (version 23.x) and earlier included 32-bit components. This means: Reasons to upgrade (to Ventura or Sonoma): This

The first fully 64-bit, Catalina-native version of Illustrator is Illustrator CC 2020 (version 24.0). If you are still using a perpetual license or an older subscription, you cannot run it on Catalina.

Catalina’s enhanced privacy protections block Illustrator from saving files or opening recent documents.

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