System necessities and different restrictions
Apple outlines detailed system necessities for every app on its help web page here. For many of the Mac apps, all you want is a Mac working macOS 15.6 Sequoia or later; the one Mac app that requires macOS 26 Tahoe is Pixelmator Professional. A lot of the apps can even run on both Intel or Apple Silicon Macs, although MainStage is Apple Silicon-exclusive, and “some options” in Compressor may additionally require Apple Silicon.
The necessities for the iPad apps are just a little extra restrictive; you typically must be working both iPadOS 18.6 or iPadOS 26, and each Ultimate Minimize Professional and Pixelmator Professional both need an Apple M1, an Apple A16, or an Apple A17 Professional (in different phrases, it should work on each iPad Apple presently sells, however older iPad {hardware} is extra hit and miss).
Apple additionally outlines plenty of utilization restrictions for the generative AI options that depend on exterior providers. Apple says that, “at a minimal,” customers will be capable of generate 50 photos, 50 displays of between 8 to 10 slides every, and to generate presenter notes in Keynote for 700 slides. Extra utilization could also be potential, however this is determined by “the complexity of the queries, server availability, and community availability.”
These AI options are all based mostly on OpenAI know-how, however don’t require customers to have their very own OpenAI or ChatGPT account (the flip facet is that for those who already pay for ChatGPT, that received’t profit you right here). Apple additionally says that the content material you employ to generate photos, displays, or notes “won’t ever be used to coach intelligence fashions.”
What apps aren’t getting new variations?
There are three main artistic apps that Apple presents that haven’t been bundled into Creator Studio, and likewise haven’t gotten a serious new replace: iMovie, GarageBand, and Photomator.
There are extenuating circumstances that specify why these three apps haven’t been given a Creator Studio-style overhaul. The iMovie and GarageBand apps have all the time type of been positioned as “lite” free-to-use variations of Ultimate Minimize Professional and Logic Professional, respectively, whereas Photomator is a lately acquired app that overlaps considerably with the built-in Photographs app.
Apple has nothing to share about the way forward for any of the three apps. Each iMovie and Photomator acquired minor updates at this time, presumably associated to sustaining compatibility with the Creator Studio apps, and GarageBand was final up to date a month in the past. Count on them to stay round of their present varieties for a minimum of some time.
