Installing the native Apple silicon editor

Hi everyone.

Today we released Unity Hub 3.0.0-beta.6, which supports installing the native Apple silicon editor that we’re releasing with Unity 2021.2.

You can take two upgrade paths:

You have Unity Hub 2.x installed on your machine

  1. Go to the Hub settings, Advanced tab

  2. Change the Release Channel to Beta :

  3. Click on the Hub 3.0.0-beta.6 Available notification and press Restart Now and Install:

You are starting from scratch

  1. Download and open Unity Hub installer (you can download it from here)

  2. Drag the Unity Hub icon to the Applications folder and wait for it to be installed:

Once Unity Hub is updated/installed, you can install the native Apple silicon editor through the Installs tab:

Then, locate the desired Apple silicon editor and click install. Native Apple silicon editors have a small Apple logo and words “SILICON” next to it.

If you wish to install Apple silicon editor without using Unity Hub, you can find the instructions here .

Have fun using Unity on Apple silicon!

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Thanks very very. much

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Thank you guys! M1 editor is glorious!! <3

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Great work Unity team. I was able to get my project open on the new 2021.2 native editor!

Here are some benchmarks I did, comparing it to the previous top-end 2019 16".

It looks like generally 2021.2 is slower than 2020.3, but the native version lets the new m1 speed ahead.

I also posted a thread, here: M1 Max Real-World Unity Performance

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Testing this out on an Apple Silicon Mac I’m running into this:

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For me the apple silicon editor is extremely laggy overall (new M1 MacBook Pro Max). There are distinct delays when interacting with any inspector window (up to half a second delay).

Is this a known issue on the new m1 max chips?

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This is a known issue and I think it’s this bug: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/the-first-keyboard-input-is-ignored-and-stored-for-later-when-renaming-assets-causing-all-keyboard-inputs-to-become-mixed

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Can you send an attachment of your logs so we can take a better look at this please? Should be under Troubleshooting → Open log folder

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For me the Unity 2021.2.1f1 silicon editor is also very laggy overall on macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 on MacBook Air M1 with 16 GB RAM. Is this a known issue?

Could it be this? https://discussions.unity.com/t/844035 page-7#post-7619311

Yes I think its this input delay issue. Looking forward for the fix.

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I installed the Apple Silicon version of the editor, but my project is still using the Intel version. It won’t let me select the Apple Silicon version…how come?

Can you show a screenshot? Did you select the right editor in the hub?

See it is installed, but I can’t select it for that project.

I’m afraid it’s a current limitation of the hub (we’re working on addressing it). It doesn’t play nice when you have both Intel and Apple silicon editor installed for the same Unity version. A workaround I can offer is to remove the Intel version of Unity from the hub.

Unity version 2021.2.2f1 (silicon) runs now very nice on MacBook Air M1 with macOS Big Sur! :slight_smile: The laggy behavior is gone.

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I’m having this same issue, but there isn’t an intel version on my computer. I have an intel build of an earlier version, but it doesn’t seem like that would interfere.
On the downloads screen it says Silicon, but once it’s finished, in the Installs section it says Intel. Not sure what’s going on here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! :smile:

And, for me for some reason, any version of 2021.2 crashes on start on both Mac (m1) and Pc

EDIT: And when I try to install the silicon version again, it says that both the Intel and Apple Silicon version are both installed. Even though I only see the Intel version listed under “Installs”).

We’re having the same issue installing Apple Silicon 2021.2.2f1. The Unity Hub (beta 6) logs report that it has no access to the Destination Path, even though I gave the Unity Hub.app “Full Disk Access” permission in System Settings > Privacy. Here’s the entry from the logs:
{“level”:“error”,“message”:“[\n "Error occured in ‘Destination Path Check’. Error: No read write access for /Applications/Unity/Hub/Editor"\n]”,“moduleName”:“Disk Validation Strategy”,“timestamp”:“2021-11-15T18:50:44.714Z”}

Is there another support application that needs disk access permission?
@Tautvydas-Zilys

I’m asking around.