# Anki application will not open on my new mac

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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 5, 2026, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-application-will-not-open-on-my-new-mac/69086 "2026-03-05T06:07:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![davro197](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@davro197](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/davro197)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-application-will-not-open-on-my-new-mac/69086/1 "2026-03-05T06:07:16Z")

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Hey,

I’ve been using Anki for just over a year now on my old 2017 Intel Macbook Air however recently have upgraded to a 2024 M3 Macbook Air and ever since migrating all my data over to the new laptop Anki will not open.

I have tried deleting all Anki files and reinstalling the latest version however same thing happens. I found someone else’s forum post an saw that Anki is potentially downloading the Intel version of python but not sure what do do from here. I have just downloaded an older version and seems to work fine. Was wondering if this is a known issue and if it will be fixed?

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**Author:** ![BenJamesBen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BenJamesBen](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/BenJamesBen)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-application-will-not-open-on-my-new-mac/69086/2 "2026-03-05T13:40:30Z")

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If you need help running the latest version of Anki, please run the Anki launcher from the Terminal app, so you can see the error messages: `/Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher`

Searching the forum for the specific error messages might lead you to a solution. Or, if you need further help, please copy/paste the error messages here.

(Otherwise, if just running the older version of Anki is acceptable to you, doing so would a possible workaround.)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-application-will-not-open-on-my-new-mac/69086/3 "2026-04-04T13:40:46Z")

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