The following known issue is specific to Big Sur.
Important! Until this issue has been resolved, you may want to remain on your current macOS version or test in a non-production partition to ensure that your software or hardware is compatible.
Issue | Issue description |
Change in appearance of the title bar in all dialogs. | In medium dark theme mode, InDesign displays black colored text on white background in the titles of all dialogs. The InDesign engineering team is investigating a fix for this issue. |
We are working to ensure that our apps are natively compatible with Apple silicon devices, but do not have a release date yet. Apple silicon devices ship with Rosetta 2, an emulator that enables ARM Macs to run Intel-based apps. InDesign will work on Rosetta 2 until they are available natively.
There are no known issues specific to running InDesign under Rosetta 2 emulation mode on Apple devices with M1 processors running BigSur (macOS 11).
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