


Hence you'll have to upgrade to 2022 which is all 64 bit. So version 2019 will never install on Catalina, Big Sur or Monterey. They're old versions and long superseded. What this means for you is that many components of Elements 2019 are still 32 bit, such as the installer, and will never be re-written in 64 bit. whether you use a free photo editor or the top industry-standard tools like Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom.

When software vendors issue new versions, they almost always stop supporting the earlier versions. The MacBook Pro 16-Inch (2021) is our pick for best laptop for photographers. Over the past decade, Adobe has re-written all of its apps in 64 bit but also upgraded them over the years too to sell new versions - as they normally do. That affected hundreds of apps from hundreds of vendors, including Adobe. This meant that any software with 32 bit code cannot be installed on Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey and later and would have to be re-written from scratch in 64 bit - a huge undertaking. The full story is a bit technical but - after a decade long transition - Apple finally dropped all support for 32 bit coded apps back in the days of Catalina - the macOS version immediately following Mojave. To be fair, the true culprit here is really Apple.
