That leads us to a series of important questions for Mac users who may be at risk of having important workflows disrupted by Catalina. There are also a fair number of other issues with Catalina, like Adobe software incompatibility problems and unforeseen hurdles related to the removal of iTunes.
However, based on previous experience, we would recommend not updating to Catalina until any bugs have been identified and fixed.Apple’s latest Mac update, macOS Catalina, was released earlier this week, and with it came a flurry of complications both minor and major.įor one, this update is the first for Apple to drop 32-bit application support, which is causing all sorts of headaches for users of smaller apps, plug-ins, and other software that may not be updated for quite some time or may have been created by a company that no longer exists.
Wacom's latest driver includes support for Catalina. Maxon Cinema 4DĪgain, this was – and still is – listed as supporting Sidecar, but Maxon has not confirmed as yet whether the current version of Cinema 4D formally supports Catalina or whether an update is needed. We're also working on Sidecar support for a future version of Painter. Our Painter team is also happy to announce the newly released Painter Essentials 7 is ready for macOS Catalina and Painter 2020 will be receiving an update for macOS Catalina compatibility in the next few weeks. The update will include support for macOS Catalina as well as Sidecar. In a statement, a Corel spokesperson said that "we'll be releasing a new update for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 for Mac as well as our CorelDRAW 2019 Mac App Store edition very soon.
CorelDRAW and Painterīoth of Corel's main creative apps were listed by Apple as supporting Sidecar – but Corel tells us a different story.
Apple Final Cut ProĪpple has released an update to Final Cut Pro X that adds support for Catalina – including Sidecar – as well as processors with up to 28 cores and multiple graphics cards, ready for the launch of the new Mac Pro. Serif has let us know that Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher are all compatible with Catalina, including Sidecar. We've successfully used both Photoshop and Illustrator with a 2018 MacBook Pro 15-inch and a 12.9-inch iPad Pro. In a note on its support site, Adobe also says that there may be issues with enterprise deployments.Īpple says that Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Substance Designer and Painter all support Sidecar. Plugins will also need to be updated for macOS 10.15 Remaining issues include that Save a Copy doesn't add 'copy' to the filename, Render Video won't complete without a workaround, Lens Creator won't work at all and some Camera Raw bugs. Most of these have been addressed in the 20.0.7 update that's available through the Creative Cloud app – though you may need to update that app to make the Photoshop update appear. Since Catalina was released, Adobe has discovered a series of issues with Photoshop (detailed here). Older versions of Creative Cloud apps may run – but Creative Suite apps such as Photoshop CS6 will not. Adobe Creative CloudĪdobe says that only the latest version of its Creative Cloud applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere Pro are supported on Catalina. Here's what we know about the most commonly used tools, including whether they support Sidecar.
Before you upgrade, here's how to find out if you've got any 32-bit only apps on your Mac currently.Īlso, some app developers and hardware manufacturers have yet to upgrade their tools for macOS Catalina. However, Catalina no longer supports 32-bit applications – it's 64-bit all the way.
(This feature will be updated as companies release updated software/drivers and as users discover bugs and other issues.)Īpple has released macOS 10.15 Catalina around the world, adding new features including an improved Photos app, a new Music app and – most important to creatives – the Sidecar feature that lets you use an iPad and Pencil like a Wacom Cintiq.
Here's what we know so far – including updates on Photoshop, Corel and Wacom compatibility. Apple's new macOS is the first to be 64-bit only – so many older apps and hardware won't work, and newer tools may need to be updated to work correctly.