Navigating Adobe Illustrator on macOS Catalina Running Adobe Illustrator on macOS Catalina (10.15) represents a significant era for creative professionals, as it was the first macOS version to drop support for 32-bit applications. If you are still using Catalina, 1. The 64-Bit Transition

⚠️ If you rely on perpetual license versions (CS6, CC 2018), do NOT upgrade to Catalina. You will lose access completely.

Hardware Baseline: To run smoothly on Catalina, your Mac should ideally have at least 8 GB of RAM (though 16 GB is recommended) and an SSD for faster scratch disk performance. 3. Solving Performance Lag

Power users had to navigate System Preferences > Security & Privacy to manually override blocks — or disable Gatekeeper entirely (not recommended). Adobe itself updated its Creative Cloud installer to be fully notarized, but the ecosystem of community‑driven tools faced a fragmentation moment.

: Draw and edit vector paths directly on the iPad screen using the Apple Pencil

Reasons to stay on Catalina: