Feedback: a version native to Apple silicon is sorely needed

[user68564]

Yes, the Intel version will run under Rosetta, but it seems sluggish. Apple silicon first debuted three years ago. There's no reason why Intuit can't update the software to be "universal" so it also includes a version native to Apple silicon.

[Hendrik42]

This. Please support Apple Silicon. It's very slow to load and sluggish in rosetta emulation.

[fixtobreak]

Given the price of TurboTax, it is completely unacceptable at this point for there not to be a universal download to support Apple Silicon. If the TurboTax developers do not know how to take this easy step, I question their competence. I will be switching to another product next year.

[jonahleewalker]

No kidding. I am running it on my fairly new Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192 Gigs of RAM and it is basically non-functional. Literally every time I hit continue or try and save I wait a good hour for it to stop beach-balling. I always thought turbo-tax was slow on a mac, but this is insane. I am running Home & Business 2023 and it either takes so long in between hitting continue or crashes, so I might not finish my taxes on time.

[user68564]

@jonahleewalker That's not normal. Despite not being optimized for Apple Silicon, it was still usable for me. So you have something else going on. 

[jonahleewalker]

It is a fresh OS and new machine, and it is completely useless. I used to have wait on my intel mac when adding things for a while, but this is literally ridiculous. It is completely useless.

[pjeski]

Now that TurboTax doesn't support Monterey, and my intel mac is too old for Ventura, I would really appreciate an apple silicon native TurboTax App this year. I've made it this far without having to install Rosetta, and I really don't want to.

[chabig]

Turbotax 2024 is out! And of course it's still compiled for Intel only. How bad must the code base be for them not to be able to check a box and generate a universal binary?

[Sam06754]

I just downloaded TT 2024 and it says it requires Rosetta to run on my Apple M3 silicon.

As far as I can tell, they have not updated the Mac minimum system requirements to include Rosetta.

The Mac requirements need to be updated (or, preferably, the software needs to be updated).

[Alohart]

TurboTax 2023 was built using a current version of Apple's Xcode development environment which supports building universal binaries that run natively at full speed on both Intel and Apple Silicon CPU's by merely changing a build setting.  However, if TurboTax includes low-level Intel machine language, it wouldn't run on Apple Silicon.  Or maybe Intuit doesn't want to test TurboTax on Apple Silicon Macs.  However, it's rare that an app would run differently on Apple Silicon and Intel CPU's if the TurboTax developers are using Apple's development environment.