The final nail in Boot Camp's coffin

With Apple's transition to the M1 processor in 2020, the company decided to not develop Boot Camp for the M-series Macs. While Apple says the M-series Macs can run Windows for Arm, it's not going out of its way to do it and there are no indications that development is happening.Boot Camp currently supports Windows 10 on a range of Macs dated mid-2012 or newer. Apple Silicon is not supported due to being ARM-based. Although Windows 11 supports ARM64, the ARM64 version is only licensed to OEMs, and there are no M1/M2 drivers, so it cannot run on Apple Silicon Macs natively.If you have an Apple M-series chip, Boot Camp will not work as it requires a Mac with an Intel processor. To install Windows on your M-series Mac, you can use Parallels Desktop for Mac. What's the difference between Parallels Desktop and Boot Camp

How do I get Boot Camp back on my Mac : Restart your Mac. When your Mac begins to restart, press and hold the Option (or Alt) ⌥ key on your keyboard. Release the key when you see a window (pictured above) showing all available startup volumes. Select the Boot Camp volume, then press Return or click the up arrow.

Is Boot Camp coming to M2

Unfortunately, Apple only supports Boot Camp on Macs with an Intel processor. Since Apple has been updating its Macs to run on its own Apple silicon (i.e. M1, M2, and M3) processors, few Macs are still available that let you dual-boot Windows or run Windows apps natively with an Intel processor.

Will Boot Camp come to M2 : That won't provide the best performance that would be capable through a native solution, but Apple has shown no signs of supporting Boot Camp on M1 or M2 Macs.

Apple Boot Camp is Intel x86-64 only, and does not support Apple silicon. For Windows on Apple silicon, acquire and install the Parallels hypervisor, and acquire and install Microsoft Windows for ARM64 there. If you want to use Microsoft Windows for Intel x86-64, you will need to acquire and install an Intel emulator.

M1 is an Arm architecture processor and not x86-64, and Apple Boot Camp is for x86-64 processors. Windows for x86-64 will not boot and will not work on an M1 processor.

Why doesn’t my Mac have Boot Camp

Unfortunately, Apple only supports Boot Camp on Macs with an Intel processor. Since Apple has been updating its Macs to run on its own Apple silicon (i.e. M1, M2, and M3) processors, few Macs are still available that let you dual-boot Windows or run Windows apps natively with an Intel processor.To install Windows 10, use Boot Camp Assistant, which is included with your Mac.

1. Check your Secure Boot setting.
2. Use Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows partition.
3. Format the Windows (BOOTCAMP) partition.
4. Install Windows.
5. Use the Boot Camp installer in Windows.

Apple Boot Camp is Intel x86-64 only, and does not support Apple silicon. For Windows on Apple silicon, acquire and install the Parallels hypervisor, and acquire and install Microsoft Windows for ARM64 there. If you want to use Microsoft Windows for Intel x86-64, you will need to acquire and install an Intel emulator.

Windows 11 and Parallels Desktop

Parallels® Desktop version 18 and 19 are authorized solutions for running Arm® versions of Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise in a virtual environment on its platform on Apple M1, M2, and M3 computers.

Is Boot Camp available on M2 : The new M1/2 based Macs are ARM based, not x86 like their Intel counterparts. So Boot Camp cannot install Windows as usual, because of architectural differences. An OS has to be written specifically for hardware architecture. So you would need a version of Windows written for ARM.

Can M1 Macs run Windows : Virtualization software is the only way to run Windows on an M1 or M2 Mac. There were several very good options for virtualization tools available for Intel Mac computers, but partly because of the challenges of moving to a different architecture, not many remain.

Can I install Windows on my old MacBook

You can use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 10 on your Intel-based Mac. You need an external USB drive to install Windows on older Mac computers.

Windows 11 and Parallels Desktop

Parallels® Desktop version 18 and 19 are authorized solutions for running Arm® versions of Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise in a virtual environment on its platform on Apple M1, M2, and M3 computers.Can I use Bootcamp and Windows 10 on M1 or M2 processors No. Boot Camp is not supported on the Macs with M1/M2 processors. See the note in this article.

Will Apple silicon ever run Windows : Microsoft's in-house solution, Windows 365 Cloud PC, will enable Mac silicon-chip users to stream a fully-fleshed-out and personalized Windows 11 version. Microsoft describes this as a “software-as-a-service solution for organizations of all sizes,” so this isn't for individual users (yet).