Need TurboTax Premium Desktop download for Macs with Apple Silicon. Why is this not supported?

[denisegirish]

I just downloaded the TurboTax Premium Desktop version for Macs. I have a Mac Air running Mac OS Tahoe 26.2. It seems that I need to install some Rosetta emulator before I can run the Turbo Tax Software. Why is this so? I used to have an older Mac Air (2013) running Mac OS Maverick and TT stopped support for it. Now I am stuck in a limbo until I can figure out this Rosetta thingy.  

  Is it that hard for TurboTax to support Apple Silicon if they are already supporting Mac's? I use Fidelity for Banking and they offered this discounted TT software thru their website. Maybe they can twist Intuit's arm to support Apple Silicons. 

  Has anyone else run into this problem? Do you have any tips on installing Rosetta?

[CatinaT1]

Here are the minimum system requirements for both Windows and Mac.

[denisegirish]

@CatinaT1, Thanks for your reply and the link to minimum system requirements.

My question was specifically a request for TurboTax Desktop software to be supported for Apple Silicon (i.e. Apple processors).

As it stands right now, I had to install the Rosetta app on the Mac to be able to run TT Desktop. I do have the latest Mac and it meets the minimum system requirements. I believe that in later versions of MAC-OS, Apple is stopping support for the Rosetta App. This means that the TT 2025 that I have, will not work anymore, with say MAC-OS 2027, unless it is ported to work on Apple processors.

The Rosetta app is an emulator, that allows software written for Intel processors to run on Apple processors. For many of us MAC users, the TT Desktop currently works on Apple processors, only because the Rosetta app is magically translating it under the hood. It would be great if Intuit would port the TT Desktop for MAC to directly run on Apple processors instead of needing an Emulator.