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What LastPass products natively support Apple M1 (Apple Silicon)?

formermember

Greetings,

What LastPass products natively support Apple M1 (Apple Silicon)? Earlier in 2021 LastPass said they were shifting their support towards a web app that supports M1, but as of right now the download page does not designate if anything is a Universal App. On top of this, the fact that the old Mac App Store app still exists adds to the confusion.

Is M1 natively supported, and if so, what products?

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glenn.dobson

Hi@Former Member Currently, there are no plans for a native version of LastPass specifically for the M1 Macs. The Mac App available on the LastPass website is the latest version.

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glenn.dobson

Hi@Former Member Currently, there are no plans for a native version of LastPass specifically for the M1 Macs. The Mac App available on the LastPass website is the latest version.

widomj

Is the Safari extension supposed to work on MacBook M1?

rachael.orovets

Hi @otterit,

The LastPass extension for Safari is included with the LastPass Mac App that you can download using the link above.

Kihong Song

Lastpass, Update software to Apple silicon (M1)!!!! You will lose all Mac users otherwise.

richard

I appreciate the forthright statement, but I also urge you to reconsider; Apple Silicon is not a "new fad", and it's not a minor thing that your app only works with rosetta. It's most likely not super difficult to get it to build for arm64, though getting the universal binary set up might be a bit of a pain -- you could also just offer two downloads, though I know that has its own cost.

The problem is that to use lastpass on safari you have to run the lastpass app, which means basically keeping that open all the time; anything which requires rosetta 2 to function increases the drain on the battery and thus many people (myself included) prefer to avoid using any "long-running" applications which aren't running arm64 natively.

We're already at a point where nearly all currently sold mac systems run on apple silicon -- it isn't just a few users that you're affecting, though I recognize that the overall percentage of your userbase may still be small.

skynet01+343

Is there a road map for it? I mean you will have to do it at some point.

Maybe allow us to hide LastPass app from the top menu bar? The search doesn't work anyway

Alonso Galvan

Yea! We need native support! the app currently doest work very well while using Safari on full screen mode and it just drains the battery... Can we please put some effort into it? I really like Lastpass and have been using it for years.

john.keippel

No plans to support what will be Apple's ONLY architecture going forward? Not the response I was expecting when I searched for a resolution to this issue. I would ask you to re-consider, though I will be experimenting with 1Password or other offerings. Thanks.

John Hughan

Seriously, ask one of your devs to just casually start looking into this. They’ll probably get back to you saying that they finished the entire port over their lunch break. Has anyone even TRIED compiling LastPass for Apple Silicon yet? Do you even know that there is in fact some issue that would require a meaningful quantity of time and effort to address before that’s possible?

John Hughan

LogMeIn, please step up your game here. If large complex apps from the likes of Adobe and Autodesk were able to be ported to Apple Silicon already, then your comparatively tiny browser extension “app” can be ported as well, and probably with a trivial level of effort. As noted above, using Rosetta increases battery drain, and LastPass (and therefore Rosetta) has to be open whenever Safari is open, so the fact that LastPass already “works” isn’t good enough here. This is literally the only non-native app I still need to use. That will change soon. The only question is whether it’s because you ported to Apple Silicon or I dumped you for not doing so.

no no

Wow! No plans? Really? Well then that makes it easy for me. I was on the fence about subbing when you made the shift to subscription... Been a lastpass user and bought it many many many years ago... I can see now I should have just jumped ship. Like others have said.. this is a relatively trivial app to convert comparatively. The fact that you haven't already, and have "no plans" to at this point... yea that shows how little you actually give a **bleep**. So, I'm out. Off to find a service that does care enough about supporting it's products and user base.

And don't even try to use rosetta as an excuse... seriously. Fkn lazy and don't care, all it is. It was a good run LastPass, thank you for your service, but your time to be replaced has come!

ioannis.aligizakis

As a business user, I am calling LastPass to reconsider not supporting Apple Silicon natively. Apple Silicon (M1) laptops are gaining a considerable percentage in business among creators and developers.

The currently available application doesn't offer a native extension for Safari and uses rosetta consuming laptop resources in a non-optimal way.

Most of the significant competitors offer native support for Apple Silicon. I need a definite answer from LastPass with a roadmap for supporting apple silicon natively. In case that the answer is negative, I am calling all business users to reconsider their position on the contract renewals.

hurdler.chance_0r

Just got a new M1 Mac. I'm a long term LastPass user but won't use any app that requires Rosetta 2, so no LastPass app. Fortunately in my case there is a workaround - the Google Chrome browser LastPass extension works and synced immediately with my account. Not the best solution but I'll gradually switch to Keychain in any case.

tokyohomeopathy

I got a new M1. My password works on all other devices and Mac computers. It does not work on an my new M1. Furthermore, your phone support does not have a listing for Japan and I see no email support.

John Hughan

Any chance that the just-announced plans to give LastPass its independence from LogMeIn (link) will affect plans around a native Apple Silicon version?

Cody Lo

Been using LastPass for years, since M1 and now M1 Pro/Max all my Macs are now Apple Silicon including the M1 iPad Pro and of course iPhone. The 2 apps that still running on Rosetta for my workloads are Citrix Receiver and LastPass.

While the app on iPad and iPhone the only option for years is already ARM base, what is the hurdle for even just bring up a plan to transition your code to support Apple Silicon, say, 5 years from now? Even it sounds like a bit ridiculous.

John Weisz

Too bad. I have been using LastPass for 8 or 9 years.

Since LastPass has decided not to provide a realistic solution support Mac in an adequate way, do you have a suggestion for a different app to use in its place? A password manager that provides 'family' functionality so that some passwords can be shared but others are not?

If you are not going to support your current users on your own platform you could perhaps suggest good alternatives for people to switch to, no?

Mark LaRosa

"No plans"

wow.... Apple has clearly said Rosetta is a temporary solution.

I literally just deleted LastPass everywhere and imported into 1Password. Everyone do it - it was SO easy, they natively support M1 chips and so far... WAY less buggy!!!

maciek

Any status update in 2022?

maciek

Migration to 1password took around 15 minutes.

And everything is M1 compatible.

Goodbye Lastpass.

Jordan Schelew

They really just don't give a **bleep** about the performance of their apps in general, so this concept that compiling for Apple Silicon would improve performance (which it most certainly would) matters not to them.

For over two years now their Mac app has had a bug that causes CPU usage to remain at 100% for approximately 3-5 minutes after every single quick search > copy password action. Not once have they even bothered to *try* fixing it.

They simply do not care about performance and/or battery life in the least.

If you can, I strongly recommend switching to another password manager, at least until their developer team begins fixing longstanding bugs and investing time in performance issues. I just renewed my enterprise licenses, and am very much regretting that I did not have the time beforehand to make the switch.

houman.khosravani

Hi There,

Hope you're doing well.

It's now April 2022, and Apple just has the MacPro in its lineup to change to Apple Silicone.

For those of us using LastPass it remains the only Intel App - given that I presume LastPass/LogMeIn is going to continue supporting the MacOS platform, and Apple's near completion of its processor transition - when can we expect a Apple Silicone Native version of LastPass?

Thank you,

H

Robert Kuehne

How about now? Any time to recompile for M1 in the last 6 months?

Jordan Schelew

Support rep Iris said it's not that they don't have the time, it's that they don't have the will to do it. Nobody there cares about Mac support in any way.

Console logging indicates that a bug in quick search that I've experienced for the last 3 years may well be resolved by compiling for M1, which is why I asked about it, and that was the response I got.

York Day

LastPass don’t care.

They care if you don’t pay, or if corporates leave, or if Apple revoke Intel apps from working.

Right now they keep milking their cash cow.

Bitwarden looks good.

houman.khosravani

Update:

While I was initially very disappointed - I am now willing to wait for the folks at Lastpass to do it right.

A great podcast atp.fm (Marco Arment, apple programmer, maker of Overcast podcast app) on the recent episode discussed how another competitor app (which famously is M1/AS native) is very buggy and causing issue lots of issues - I do have to say, despite running on the Intel emulator on the Current MacOS - it is running well - so that is important to consider. So perhaps we are ok for now - but Dear LastPass - we still want a safe + reliable Apple Silicone version of the App in the near future please.

no1special

Thank you for posting this. It's been over a year with Apple arm64 chips on the market, but retrofitting the Native platform App through rosetta is a non starter for some folks. Can you please post an update for the Mac OS LastPass App and Extension support Apple M1. an ETA even if a vague (by mid 2022 or late 2023) product roadmap plan would be a kindness for stakeholders beyond the no plans to re-compile statement from last year.

I understand there's some deep intricacy in compiling for M1 and Security chips and Touch ID support, etc. etc. etc. But It would be great to hear you are actually working on it, even if there's no set "release date" yet.

Kind Thanks!

cb2375

I don't understand why in mid 2022 there is no native ARM64 LastPass version.

I use LatPass since 2-3 years, and I am happy with it, but if this company is ignoring its premium users in such a way... (especially when there are not only a few ), then maybe the the company is not what it was some years ago and its time to switch to something like 1Password.

Mark LaRosa

Seriously do not even think about it - switch to 1Password. I got fed up waiting and the lack of care in creating a product for modern macs. I downloaded 1Password - and imported my passwords, and was running on 1password in MINUTES. And its fast, native, and they actually care about Mac experience.