(Though the piece does mix up version numbers rather!) One possibility is that it will, for a time, offer a virtual machine running an older version of macOS silently in the background.īut even if Apple does eventually cease support for 32-bit apps altogether, as seems likely, a virtual machine could provide a DIY solution, as MacWorldsuggests. It was a vague warning, but suggests that Apple does have a plan to allow 32-bit apps to continue to run even after macOS has nominally switched to a 64-bit-only environment … Apple last month started warning users of 32-bit apps that future versions of macOS would not run ‘without compromise.’