Anki 25.09 won't open on MacOS Tahoe 26.1

I had to get a new Mac 2025 (M4) which runs on OS Tahoe 26.1. I can’t open Anki (Version 25.09) because I get the following error on Terminal:

I’m a med student and have been crashing out about this for the past 3 days, it doesn’t help that I’m absolutely hopeless at tech so I have no idea what this error even wants me to do. Any help would be so so appreciated, thank you!!!

Have you searched for threads about similar errors?

Please also search the forum for “Failed to patch the install name of the dynamic library” (which brings up issues with Conda/Anaconda architecture mismatches).

Did you migrate the contents of your old computer onto your new computer? (That is, did the migration possibly copy over old Intel-architecture conda/anaconda/python onto your new Apple silicon-architecture computer?)

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