When will Apple support Canon R5 Mark II raw format for thumbnail preview in macOS Sequoia?

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When will Apple support Canon R5 Mark II raw format for thumbnail preview in macOS Sequoia?

Does anyone know how much longer before apple can add this new format to their system? This camera is marketed for professionals, but is not suitable to use if you also work with a mac without having to have other apps taking up space. I use photoshop, but view the thumbnail view all the time in normal files before working with them, it's normally quicker to find the photo your looking for than having to actually open up each file, when you have thousands it becomes a painful task. It's been over months since this camera was released, so does anyone know how much longer till apple have all the info to support this file type for thumbnail preview to work?

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iMac 27″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 10, 2025 4:39 PM

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Richard.Taylor

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Mar 11, 2025 7:32 AM in response to Fitnik2b

I use Photos to curate my pictures before deciding which ones I want to edit in Lightroom. My Nikon Z8 High Efficiency RAWs are not supported, but I do the curating in Photos with jpgs, since the Z8 can produce both files, and I have the camera put them on different memory cards.

The answer to your question is that no one knows when, or even if, Apple will support your RAW files. It looks to me like Apple isn't very interested in writing code for every different RAW format. Like I said, I'm not depending on that, and I'm really very happy using the combination of jpgs and RAWs.

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