After what appeared like ceaselessly, Apple on Tuesday lastly up to date its line of standalone shows. If you happen to’ve been ready for one, you’ll be capable to preorder tomorrow for supply subsequent week. However earlier than you drop a pair grand on one, there are necessary compatibility points that you must find out about—particularly, your Mac or iPad might not work with the brand new shows.
First, Apple states that the Studio Show and the Studio Show XDR work solely with Apple silicon-based Macs and iPads. Second, your Apple silicon Mac or iPad must be operating macOS/iPadOS 26.3.1 or later. Listed here are the compatibility lists, as proven on Apple.com.
- 16-inch MacBook Professional (2021 and later)
- 14-inch MacBook Professional (2021 and later)
- 13-inch MacBook Professional (M1, 2020 and later)
- 15-inch MacBook Air (2023 and later)
- 13-inch MacBook Air (M1, 2020 and later)
- Mac Studio (2022 and later)
- Mac mini (2020 and later)
- Mac Professional (2023 and later)
- 24-inch iMac (2021 and later)
- iPad Professional (M4 and M5)
- iPad Professional 12.9-inch (third–sixth era)
- iPad Professional 11-inch (1st–4th era)
- iPad Air (M2, M3, and M4)
- iPad Air (fifth era)
Nonetheless, there are some additional caveats to the Studio XDR compatibility. The complete M1-series Mac lineup, in addition to Macs with a base M2 chip or M3 chip, will not be able to operating ProMotion on the XDR show. These Macs will keep locked at 60Hz, which considerably defeats the aim of shopping for a $3,299 Studio Show XDR.
The same limitation applies to the iPads. Solely the M5 iPad Professional can run the Studio Show XDR at 120Hz. All different iPads will stay at 60Hz.
We’ve contacted Apple, and we’ll replace this text with extra clarification on what works with the Studio Shows.
