This article applies to macOS customers using Apple M1/M2 Chips systems.
What are M1/M2 Silicon computers?
Apple has released M1 and M2 Chips (ARM) equipped computers, which bring significant architecture changes (known as Apple Silicon). Among them, these devices will run (at minimum) macOS11 Big Sur, and handle tasks differently than previous Apple systems.
Those hardware and OS changes also modify how software works on these devices, which requires developers to transition their apps to “Universal versions”.
Compatibility and installation steps
Sophos Home can run 100% natively on M1/M2 chips, please see: Mac 10.3.1 release notes
Steps related to how to install Sophos Home on M1 devices
Support for macOS 11 - Big Sur
Known issues/changes
- In some cases, users may see a message stating “Using Significant Energy: "Sophos Scan"” this could occur during scans.