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As part of Apple’s move from using Intel processors to Apple Silicon processors for all Mac models, Apple has announced a transition timeline for macOS’s Rosetta 2 translation environment. Rosetta 2 will continue in its current form on both macOS 26 and macOS 27, but there will be as-yet unspecified changes occurring beyond macOS 27.
As part of this transition process, as of macOS Tahoe 26.4 there is a new window that will be periodically displayed when apps which are Intel-based get launched on Apple Silicon Macs. For example, an earlier version of an Automator app I wrote named Show or Hide Desktop Icons.app is an Intel-based app.

On macOS 26.4 and later, launching this earlier version of the Show or Hide Desktop Icons app will periodically result in the following message being displayed by the OS.

This new message may not be desirable to display in all Mac environments, so Apple has provided management options to prevent this message from being shown. For more details, please see below the jump.
The relevant preference domain and key values are below:
This setting can be managed by a configuration profile, where setting a boolean value of false will prevent the message from being displayed. Please see below for an example profile. This profile is also available via the following link:
https://github.com/rtrouton/profiles/tree/main/DisableRosettaUsageAwareness
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| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
| <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> | |
| <plist version="1"> | |
| <dict> | |
| <key>PayloadUUID</key> | |
| <string>A3A6F8B9-3A59-4D39-8569-FF38DA9A8C1F</string> | |
| <key>PayloadType</key> | |
| <string>Configuration</string> | |
| <key>PayloadOrganization</key> | |
| <string>Company Name</string> | |
| <key>PayloadIdentifier</key> | |
| <string>A3A6F8B9-3A59-4D39-8569-FF38DA9A8C1F</string> | |
| <key>PayloadDisplayName</key> | |
| <string>Disable Rosetta Usage Awareness</string> | |
| <key>PayloadDescription</key> | |
| <string>Disables Rosetta Usage Awareness Dialog Window</string> | |
| <key>PayloadVersion</key> | |
| <integer>1</integer> | |
| <key>PayloadEnabled</key> | |
| <true /> | |
| <key>PayloadRemovalDisallowed</key> | |
| <false /> | |
| <key>PayloadScope</key> | |
| <string>System</string> | |
| <key>PayloadContent</key> | |
| <array> | |
| <dict> | |
| <key>PayloadDisplayName</key> | |
| <string>Custom Settings</string> | |
| <key>PayloadIdentifier</key> | |
| <string>E36A3269-B3A0-42F1-B045-1DB4D27CE7A2</string> | |
| <key>PayloadOrganization</key> | |
| <string>Company Name</string> | |
| <key>PayloadType</key> | |
| <string>com.apple.ManagedClient.preferences</string> | |
| <key>PayloadUUID</key> | |
| <string>E36A3269-B3A0-42F1-B045-1DB4D27CE7A2</string> | |
| <key>PayloadVersion</key> | |
| <integer>1</integer> | |
| <key>PayloadContent</key> | |
| <dict> | |
| <key>com.apple.applicationaccess</key> | |
| <dict> | |
| <key>Forced</key> | |
| <array> | |
| <dict> | |
| <key>mcx_preference_settings</key> | |
| <dict> | |
| <key>allowRosettaUsageAwareness</key> | |
| <false /> | |
| </dict> | |
| </dict> | |
| </array> | |
| </dict> | |
| </dict> | |
| </dict> | |
| </array> | |
| </dict> | |
| </plist> |