{"id":52680,"date":"2026-07-22T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52680"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:33:59","slug":"sunsetting-google-earth-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/22\/sunsetting-google-earth-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunsetting Google Earth for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Google Earth Team<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We’re continuing to make Google Earth on web<\/u><\/a> and mobile (Android<\/u><\/a> | iOS<\/u><\/a>) the best place for people to get helpful geospatial insights. While you can continue using the legacy Google Earth Pro desktop app, it will no longer be available for new downloads beginning on June 25, 2027. We encourage using web and mobile for the best Google Earth experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is a two-factor loss: the MacOS app is Intel-based and, thus, will no longer be supported by the system come next year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

On the Google Earth community thread, you will find comments from people with all sorts of interesting use cases for the desktop app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Rui Carmo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is going to be the end of an era for me. One of the first things I did with the early versions of Google Earth<\/a> was wire it up to Vodafone’s mobile network data, producing some genuinely unique–for the time, at least–visualisations of network usage over time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n