Zoom has published the release notes for an upgrade it says is scheduled to be launched to customers tomorrow, Dec 21. The spotlight for Mac customers is that the upgrade will convey backing for Apple Silicon Macs, together with native performance on the M1 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.

The launch notes for the upgrade clarify that Zoom may even launch a separate installer for installation of the video conferencing app on Apple Silicon Macs:

Support for Apple Silicon processors – Zoom desktop shopper will higher backing support systems with ARM CPUs. A separate installer is on the market for obtain within the Zoom obtain Center.

Given the expansion in popularity of Zoom this a period of 365 days because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this can be a notable upgrade for Mac users. Granted, early indications have been that the Intel model of Zoom truly carried out fairly admirably on M1 Macs running in Rosetta 2 translation mode.

Upgrade ought to compose Zoom a Common application, which means it runs natively on each Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. The M1 processor means that you can run three several types of purposes in your Mac:

• iPhone and iPad apps on the Mac by means of the Mac App Store
• Rosetta 2 translation lets you run apps made for Intel Macs on Apple Silicon, and typically apps carry out higher in Rosetta with M1 than they did with Intel, Apple says.
• Universal apps are apps constructed for Apple Silicon and Intel processors and are downloadable from the Mac App Store or from the web.