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IDA Pro on Apple Silicon – Hex Rays

Written by   Troy Bowman | Dec 9, 2020

IDA Pro for ARM64 is coming! We have ported all of IDA to run natively on Apple Silicon and it will be available in IDA 7.6.

Initial analysis shows that the hype is real. IDA is consistently performing much faster on M1 macs:

And a visual representation, for your viewing delight:

 

We have also ported the mac debugger to ARM64. So far it is working well:

IDAPython also works with the latest ARM64 release of Python 3.9, including PyQt:

There are still a few wrinkles to iron out but so far we are very pleased with the results. We hope this will satisfy your appetite until IDA 7.6 is released!