Hello,
MacOS Tahoe 26.4 now issues a warning that Intel applications will soon no longer be supported when I start Steinberg Download Assistant. Will there be an Apple Silicone native version any time soon? I don’t know Apple’s exact timeline, but this is the first time I see the warning so I assume it will be in a not too distant future.
Uninstall/Reinstall
And… maybe turn off Rosetta
You don’t need to do anything at the moment as the text states
will not open in a future release of macOS
This “future release” is not yet available to anyone and if that version is released the Download Assistant will have had an update before.
I don’t use Rosetta.
OK, thank you very much.
It is EOL 2027, but less than a year from AppleSeed drops it. I guess it will be part of next cubase. However is there any statements on cubase/steinberg support for the intel version? Tahoe is the last OS with Intel support and it EOL in 2028.
Steinberg Download Assistant is the only app in Steinberg vast app portfolio that is NOT AS native and yet it is crucial for installing, activating and updating your existing native Apple Silicone apps… What a joke…
BTW; SDA is still using old Java runtime environment and third-party frameworks for SDA… WTF…?!
Maybe it would be a good opportunity to consolidate all 3 apps into one? Like the Native Access for example. Just a humble suggestion 
Steinberg is the only one company that requires 3 separate apps for the software management from all the software that I collected over the last 20 years.
Good idea, totally agree with your suggestion but judging by Steinberg ignoring this post I wouldn’t count on this happening anytime soon or ever…
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that I’m just repeating suggestions that I saw years ago on this forum 
But I’m still hopeful that one day Steinberg will update their apps to match the rest of the industry.
You´re mistaken about that. SB staff replied above.
+1 for sure!
I don’t know about you but I spend most of my time using Cubase / Nuendo and very, very little time on the SDA. If it works then why do you care?
Agreed.
The SDA used to fail all the time. Last few updates it’s worked as intended. In my experience, Steinberg squashed that bug. That’s all I asked for and clearly something changed. I’ll take it and move on until the next update cycle. I can get back to using Cubase and add-ons painlessly again. That’s a win, to me.
I hope it does come well before the new release drops (and for me, it would be for Dorico, but then again, this app is for all Steinberg software). I’ve been getting this message from updates of my other software with increasing frequency, but in this particular case it would be ‘mission critical’.
