When installing macOS 27 (Golden Gate), Rosetta is automatically removed. If you manage a fleet with any legacy Intel-only software still in use, you need a plan in place before your users start experiencing issues. Here is what Apple IT admin Bradley Chambers is doing, along with some thoughts on vendors who are waiting until the last minute to deploy Apple Silicon-native tools.
One thing to clarify is that macOS 27 removes Rosetta, but macOS 28 will no longer support it. For traditional apps, macOS 27 will prompt the user to reinstall it with an easy-to-follow GUI prompt. That is the workable scenario, because the user knows something is wrong and macOS reinstalls it. The tools to worry about are the ones that won't do that. Chambers has a handful of menu bar utilities from vendors who haven't shipped a native Apple Silicon build yet, and in his testing this summer they were silently failing. There is no error prompt; the software simply stops working. That makes auditing your fleet before macOS 27 rolls out more important than it might first appear.
His short-term fix is to automatically push a Rosetta reinstallation script to every Mac that joins his macOS 27 Dynamic Device Group. In Mosyle, he creates a new script profile and enters the command softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license. He then assigns the profile to the group, so Rosetta is installed before users run into problems.
The approach is not a permanent fix, but it buys time while the real solution is pursued: getting vendors to ship native builds. Chambers is direct about the vendors who have not done so, and he argues that waiting until the last minute creates unnecessary risk for the organizations that depend on their software.
Source: 9to5Mac · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing