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TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

BradMacPro — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:03:26 GMT

I know TurboTax 2024 is still Intel code. So it's slow and takes longer to launch and needs more memory than a universal binary release would be. Apple told developers to start making U2B applications back in mid-2020, and they have ignored that. macOS 27 released next year will not run on Intel and will not offer Rosetta 2 support. So I'm hoping that TurboTax 2025 will finally be Universal Binary 2. But I'm guessing Intuit doesn't care, and TurboTax 2026 also won't be Universal or Apple Silicon and they will just selling to all the modern Mac users.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

TAXHELLAGAIN — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:44:55 GMT

You are only slightly wrong with your statement. You are off by one year; macOS 27 will still contain Rosetta 2. The first version to not support Intel Binaries will be macOS 28 which will be released in September 2027, a little under two years from now. Intuit has had 5 years to get up to speed. When they owned Quicken, their Quicken for Mac product stopped working when Rosetta 1 support stopped. The online version does not support forms. I am actively looking for another App that runs on macOS and has an Apple Silicon version. I don't know what platform they used to develop Turbo Tax on the Mac. If it was a native app, I assume, they would have simply recompiled to create the Universal Binary.

You may be confused because macOS 27 will not run on Intel machines. But Intel machines do not need a new macOS to run universal binaries or Intel Binaries. So, no more macOS versions for Intel machines, macOS 26 is the last macOS that will run on an Intel Mac. macOS 27 will be the last macOS to offer Rosetta 2 support which allows Intel binaries to run. Since the only major app not ready is Intuit's Turbo Tax, as far as I know, I assume that time line will not be extended especially because of Intuit's track record going back to Power PC macs and continued, ineptitude.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

baldietax — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:56:23 GMT

why are you looking for a different tax app - at some point Intuit will have to address the native binary, until then why is it a concern?

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

TAXHELLAGAIN — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:18:58 GMT

There is no guarantee they will address this issue. In the past, when they owned quicken, their software just stopped working. I was forced to buy parallels and install the Windows version of quicken on my Mac. They have not even said publicly that they are going to have a version that works after Rosetta 2 disappears. But, regardless, H&R Block’s software also won’t run either. There is no current tax software that runs natively on Apple Silicon. It has been five years. They’re simply are no other software providers that haven’t updated their products, that plan to continue on the macOS platform. H&R Block’s online software looks a little better than Turbo Tax, simply because they have a forms option. (According to their customer service department.)

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

baldietax — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:40:35 GMT

ok yes I suppose anything is possible, reflecting on 2025 they've been pretty aggressive cutting bait on Win 10 (waffling on security but basically saying they didn't expect enough uptake on ESU - see post below), ItsDeductible (apparently only 100k users), also Desktop Basic edition (no idea user count but presumably the easiest overlap with online). Desktop user base declines 4-5% annually, down to 4.3mil as of July 2025 and these changes will probably add up to another big leg down in the next year, while online revenue keeps on trucking. No idea the Mac share, 25% on average in the US? - so not impossible for them to say the same thing about Mac at some point. We'll have to see. Meanwhile personally I'll keep riding the train as far as it goes (provided they don't screw up the 1099 workflow any more)

https://investors.intuit.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1266/intuit-reports-strong-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-fiscal-2025-results-sets-fiscal-2026-guidance-with-double-digit-revenue-growth-and-continued-operating-margin-expansion

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/articles/community-news-announcements/turbotax-windows-10-desktop-software-end-of-life/05/3708302

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

TLMurray74 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:57:30 GMT

When a company is told they need to switch to a different architecture and five years later they still have not, I do not have a good feeling about them. It's not like TurboTax (and other Intuit stuff, H&R Block, etc.) came from a guy living in his mom's basement then got a job at Taco Bell, so now he doesn't have time.

I also don't want to hear "It's a huge undertaking and we need a ton of resources to get this done." I have been involved with software development in some shape or form for quite a bit of my life, and in my experience, it seems much of the expense is not in the actual coding; rather, it's in the dreadful meetings deciding exactly how it will do things, what it will look like, those kinds of things. That stuff is done.

Finally, I have to wonder if they -- Intel, H&R, etc. -- executed buzzwords like "agile" and "sprint" to mean "Bang out some code and get it out as quick as possible and don't bother to comment/document or think about the future." This ends up with a phrase many developers are all too familiar with: spaghetti code.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

Alohart — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:27:36 GMT

If Intuit waits until Rosetta is no longer supported to port Turbotax to Apple Silicon, no previous year's Turbotax would run which would be a serious problem for those of us who need to file an amended return for an earlier year. Intuit should have ported Turbotax to Apple Silicon by now so that earlier Turbotax versions could be used to file amended returns. The fact that Intuit hasn't done so suggests that they don't plan to do so, will stop producing Turbotax desktop for Mac, and will direct all Apple Silicon Mac users to migrate to Turbotax Online.

I would look for a different desktop product before I would migrate to Turbotax Online. However, the choices seem to be very limited.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

BradMacPro — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:43:23 GMT

My guess is CodeWarrior as it lacks the ability to make an Apple Silicon or fat binary version.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

BradMacPro — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:48:16 GMT

Because a decent company would have addressed it already. Adobe, Microsoft, Quark, most any company you can name have universal apps by now. They were told to make the change back in mid-2020 at the WWDC. The fact that nothing has been improved in 5 years means they don’t care enough to have done something. If they are forced to make a move at the last moment, then it’s more likely that they will abandon the Mac market and require Mac users to switch to a cloud based solution.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

TAXHELLAGAIN — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:14:01 GMT

For those who don't know a "fat binary version" is a "Universal Binary". It is called a "fat" binary because it is a double forked binary that actually contains two binaries, in this case an Intel binary and an Apple Silicon binary.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

TAXHELLAGAIN — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:28:58 GMT

There are already Windows Computers that will not run TurboTax 2025. Currently every Mac runs TurboTax. If you have a Microsoft Surface Pro with an ARM processor such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon, you cannot run TurboTax.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

eric31 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:11:47 GMT

Because amended returns are sometimes needed. If Turbotax is still intel only at this late date, then it is possible I will have difficulty creating an amended return in the future after the Intel support is dropped by Apple.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

TAXHELLAGAIN — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:14:53 GMT

You are correct. It seems they are trying to get all customers to go to the web version. Keep in mind that there are also new binaries required for Windows machines as they are also going to ARM chips. Already some windows computers are worse off than we are currently. Also, TurboTax for windows will not currently run in Parallels on a Mac. If they come out with a version for the new windows computers, then that software should run under parallels for the Mac.

Unfortunately, the news only gets worse.

Re: TurboTax 2025 and Apple Silicon

eric31 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:03:19 GMT

If Intuit tries to move me to the web, I will use the IRS portal or go back to paper filing.

Intuit's roll in preventing modern handling of taxes is really annoying. The IRS has enough information to do the taxes for 90% of Americans without the need for them to file anything. All they would have to do is confirm that the IRS has all the information correctly - which is what happened when I worked in Japan. The tax authorities confirmed my wages and other info, then did my taxes for me and sent me the result. I just had to make sure the money was in the designated account the day the collected the balance due (if any).