Flash Player

Flash Player Preferences is a system preference pane component of Adobe Flash Player, which Adobe officially discontinued on December 31, 2020. The component itself cannot be separately updated — it is bundled as part of the Flash Player application, which no longer ships new builds or security updates from Adobe. Flash Player has already been removed from all major web browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) and the standalone Flash Player application is no longer distributed or maintained by Adobe. The Intel-only preference pane component will not function on macOS 28 (September 2028) after Rosetta 2 is removed, but this is moot since the parent Flash Player application itself reached end-of-life over five years ago. If you need to play legacy Flash content (SWF files), use Ruffle, a free open-source Flash emulator that runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs. Ruffle is available as a standalone desktop application and as a browser extension, supports both older ActionScript 1/2 and newer ActionScript 3 content, and is maintained with security updates. Alternatively, Elmedia Player offers SWF playback with native Apple Silicon support if you prefer a traditional media-player interface.