FAQ

This page aims to gather a list of frequently asked questions and their answers.

Why does macOS report arm64 binaries as broken when running them on Apple Silicon?

For some reason, Apple devices running Apple Silicon (not Intel amd64 devices) mark apps that are not signed with an official Apple certificate, and downloaded from the internet, as broken before being put into quarantine. To solve this, you need to remove the quarantine attribute from the application (replacing <path to .app> with the application path):

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine <path to .app>

If this does not work, the amd64 binaries can be downloaded and used as they work fine through the Rosetta 2 translation layer.